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I'm a councillor in the London Borough of Wandsworth; this blog mainly covers that, sometimes general politics and policy and occasionally anything else that takes my fancy.
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Things I like to see
View Larger Map Google Maps is now more accurate! Having been raised many times by many different people like the SW11tch campaign and various people from the Streetlife Identity Taskforce the mapping used by Google now puts Clapham over, well, Clapham. While this shouldn’t take any credit away from map providers like Bing or the
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The political insult (and me)
My earlier post about chugging made me think that I have been attracting a few insults lately. I’m not sure if this is a good or a bad thing. As Wilde said “the only thing worse than being talked about it not being talked about.” It certainly makes me wonder what it is over the
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Posted in Politics
Also tagged Disraeli, Gladstone, insults, Johnny Storm, Thatcher, Tony Belton
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Weekly wrap-up, 14 August
My weekly look back on a few bits and pieces I want to highlight or didn't post about first time around.Another slow-ish week council-wise, as the summer slow-down truly takes hold. But a few things to include this week. GoogleLocalgov My weekly wrap-up last week was posted during the lunch break of GoogleLocalgov. Google are clearly targetting local government as a market and, as part of that hosted a whole group of local government types
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Posted in Weekly report
Also tagged Balham, Chuggers, Chugging, GoogleLocalGov, Lavender Hill
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Weekly wrap-up, 7 August
As I have mentioned summer is a quieter time on the council than the rest of the year. While last week saw no trips to the Town Hall this week saw only one for my regular briefing and policy meeting with officers. Much of the rest of the week has been, not to put to
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Posted in Weekly report
Also tagged Battersea Poems, engagement, Literary Festival, Summer
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Keeping up to date
Although I’ve had the various icons towards the top right of every page since this blog was started I’ve never really explained them or pointed people towards them, so decided it might be worth advertising the ways you can follow this blog without having to point your browser to this website. RSS (generally) stands for
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Wally chooses Wandsworth over Scunthorpe
If you had the choice of hiding in a number of UK cities, where would you go? Google’s Street View launched in the UK yesterday with a Wally character hidden somewhere. And it seems that given the choice of a number of major UK cities (and Scunthorpe) Wally decided that hiding out in London was
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