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Never rains but it pours ... or I'm having a morning of activism, and I do like to capture my pearls. So Greenwich Park have this ' ...

Hello readers - I bet both of you thought I'd given up on this. Well, no ... it's just that I have been very positively busy on othe...

Aaagh can it really be 8 months of silence?! I have been tweeting a bit on various causes and injustices and occasional bouquets amongst the...

I was alerted to this FOI Commission Consultation today by 38degrees and I jumped straight on it.  My views are from the hip, so may not be...

Dateline 16 Jun 2015:  It is crunch time … again, but perhaps even more real this time.  I don’t see how Greece and the troika of main ...

Here is my email sent to my London MEPs today, via 38degrees : Dear  Claude Moraes MEP, Jean Lambert MEP, Charles Tannock MEP, Lucy Anders...

I didn't post until now, as in my sleep-deprived and emotional state I might have just said "aaaaaaaaaagh". Don't get me...

HMRC sent me an email recently announcing "Your personalised tax summary is now available online, showing how much tax and National In...

Check this blog on the Royal Society for Arts, Manufacturing & Commerce (RSA) website: Political Gridlock ... may be no bad thing ...

In summary:  nice try, Guardian, but over-ambitious with establishment platform and a chair who was not strong enough.  A lot of aspirationa...

I went to a lecture this week at the University of Greenwich , given by Nick Raynsford MP on the subject of housing.  He has 40 years loc...

38degrees have a campaign to create the ability for the electorate in an MP's constituency to Recall him or her from Parliament and for...

I wrote this email to my MP via 38degrees : In February I, along with 60,000 others, wrote to Ed Miliband asking him to publicly commit...

Here's an example of me posting something because it gets it into play, and removes a piece of paper from my pending tray, even though I...

I recently rediscovered Adam Curtis, the investigative journalist and documentary film-maker.  I can't imagine what made me lose him in ...

So 38degrees asked me to fill in a survey, having lost the campaign to stop the component of the Lobbying Bill that will stop organisations...

Good news - I have discovered a couple of 'natural highs' for the older person. As a younger man, I used to go running irregularly...

The self-discipline explains the lack of blogging recently; I have promised myself more focus on the book I'm writing, fixed hours in th...

So finally the saga is over - the line is fixed and I have been credited a month's charge, a whole £20, and they have promised to take u...

This is a personal outpouring which nevertheless plays into my professional position as a change strategist. Over the last 5 years my ...