Monthly Archives: May 2011

So yet another smear story about local government was in the papers on Saturday with an appropriate quote from my mate Eric. Did you see the none story? Well basically it came to the conclusion that councils in England spend … Continue reading →

I’ve been to two really cracking events in the last two weeks both connected to the housing association, Plus Dane, that I am pleased to chair. The first we called our Graduation Day. At this event staff at all levels … Continue reading →

Last Saturday Erica and I had a wonderful international evening at the Everyman Bistro inLiverpool. The occasion was the XX (it had a 0 at the end!) birthday of our French next door neighbour Georgina. Georgina came toLiverpool as a … Continue reading →

Today I attended the launch of an ACEVO commission report on the Big Society, “Powerful People, Responsible Society”. I’m afraid I found the report quite insipid and stale. Even worse than the report were the introductions to the report from … Continue reading →

I can’t really remember what it was like to be a new councillor back in 1975 when I first got onto Liverpool City Council by knocking off a Tory (there were a few around then) by 56 votes. In fact … Continue reading →

I had the weekend off – I’ve had a good snooze and a good time with Erica and my granddaughter Eva so now it’s back to work with the question, “Where do we go from here?” For the last few … Continue reading →