The Royal Mail is stifling innovation and increasing costs for this country through charging for the Postcode Address File (PAF) at monopoly prices. Local Authorities who provide the Royal Mail with some of the raw data for the PAF in the form of details of new streets are amongst the Read more
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I'm not a natural evaluator. I'm too impatient and just want to get on with the next project. But the more we do as a company the more importance I place on evaluation. And looking back we've actually been quite good at it. Every year every I'm a Councillor client Read more
I've just had an email from Tom Steinberg reminding me of a pledge I made to donate £5 per month to help fund They Work For You. I've started my standing order but we still need another 142 people to sign up to complete the pledge. I've added a widget Read more
Trying to get into Parliament that day after a new speaker had been elected might not have been the best of ideas, but I certainly wasn’t alone in trying and that was the problem. So by the time I managed to walk all the way to the rather grand committee Read more
Last night on The Surgery, Radio One dedicated an hour to talking about young people and politics. Much of what was said reflects the experience we have through I'm Councillor in that young people do care about issues but not party politics. A lack of clear information and good communication Read more
Cross-posted from our I'm a Scientist blog: Is this the first time that a serving government minister has debated his role and the organisation of government, with random interested parties, on twitter? Some people love twitter, some think it's a load of pointless old nonsense. I confess, I've got into Read more
Gordon Brown has announced a National Democratic Renewal Council. According to this Guardian report it seemingly consists of a sub-committee of the cabinet chaired by the Prime Minister that will invite expert witnesses from outside. Others have said that Westminster cannot change itself. I blogged about Etienne Chouard, a French Read more