As part of the launch of The Electoral Commission and Hansard Society’s Audit of Political Engagement 3 there was an event at Portcullis House last night. A full house got to hear the offerings from: Sam Younger (Chair) – Chairman of the Electoral Commission Dr. Philip Parvin – Hansard Society Read more…
Today it was announced that Riverbend, the author of Baghdad Burning, has been longlisted for a £30,000 Literary Award. This follows on from the critical acclaim for the somewhat less worthy Belle de Jour. Congratulations to the anonymous bloggers. The other high profile arrival in the blogging world is very Read more…
I’m not normally the biggest fan of Youth Councils as they seem to be a way of replicating the mistakes of "adult councils", but they do have their place. Equally, though, I don’t believe any council should set up a Youth Council and think that the job of youth engagement Read more…
Viewing the visitor logs for your blog can make strange reading sometimes. Three weeks ago I wrote a post about a project called BlogCode. BlogCode was intended to help visitors to a blog find other similar blogs that they might enjoy. One of the unintended consequences of BlogCode is that Read more…
Tomorrow, Friday 10th March see the launch of a project that we initiated 15 months ago by inviting Bristol City Council to jointly pitch for funding from the ODPM e-Innovations fund. CampaignCreator was conceived as a way of levelling the playing field of community voices. Many grassroot campaigning groups were Read more…
Cllr Bob Piper, the author of one of the more entertaining councillor blogs, wrote a very interesting post about loyalty to the "party" a couple of days ago. I think it must be weighing on his mind because today he follows up with another post on the relevance of political Read more…