Last summer a very creative and clever lady called Fran Farrar from Norfolk Children’s Services mentioned an idea about getting vulnerable young people and Councillors to use cameras to share their life experiences over the period of a day. Working with Fran we took the idea one stage further and Read more
Want to find blogs similar to the one you’re reading? Want to attract readers to a new blog? BlogCode is a nifty endeavour by Tim Ireland and the makers of StoryCode (to find similar books) that allows you to code a blog using 27 variables. Using a database of hundreds Read more
The Local Democracy Campaign kicks is being officially launched on Monday 27th February in the Terrace Pavilion at the House of Commons. We’ll have the pleasure of hearing three MP: Ed Miliband, Charles Hendry and Sarah Teather and hopefully the Solent People’s Theatre singing one of their ditties from "Who Read more
We’ve been involved in Local Democracy Week for five years now. In the first year one council asked us to come up with something with a fortnight’s notice. That was tough. Last year Coventry City Council started their work in January and had a very successful event in October. This Read more
Nick Robinson, the BBC’s Political Editor, has published the script of an excellent lecture he gave recently on the troubled relationship between politics and the media. He outlines 5 stages in order to repair the marriage. It is well worth reading. He quotes Nick Clarke who once said to Alistair Read more
A series of three regional conferences kicks off tomorrow at the CBI conference centre at Centrepoint. Wednesday 1st February sees the Bristol event before the roadshow hits Leeds on the 8th. The conferences are deisgned to highlight the work produced over the year as part of the project. Gallomanor have Read more
As part of some work we’ve been looking at election portals from around the world. We’ve not found as many as we’d like and they are all at a del.icio.us tag in case you’re interested in what we’ve found. One of the difficulties is that by their very nature the Read more
Pressure seems to be building against Mr Galloway. Martin Linton, MP has proposed an Early Day Motion expressing dismay. Hilary Armstrong MP, Govt. Chief Whip, has started a petition against him. (Hat tip to Tom Watson). However www.revolts.co.uk points out that since Galloway had such a poor record of voting Read more
We’re delighted to announce that we’ll be running I’m a Councillor, Get me out of here again this year from Monday 9th to Friday 20th October 2006. Results of our teacher survey carried out at the end of IAC2005 showed that teachers would like to receive notification of the event Read more
George Galloway has entered the Big Brother house. Some don’t like it. George obviously does and thinks it is good for politics. My first instinct was "Hasn’t he a job to do without spending 3 weeks in the house?", but apparently he is in there to "spread our message". It Read more