23rd March 2023
Cookery Class – Making Porkie Pies or the Great British Bugger-up… Brace yourself, today the lesson is being given by Mr Lamprecht who might be channelling his inner Gordon Ramsey… So, how to make a Porky Pie? We are going to use an old favourite […]
16th March 2023
The power of Social Media – Is it Pandora’s Box? There has been one topic of discussion that dominated this week and that was of course Gary Lineker and his famous tweet that almost brought the Director General (and former Tory Council Candidate) Tim Davie […]
9th March 2023
Should you WhatsApp what you think? You guessed it… Matt Hancock is the topic this week! I simply could not resist poking fun at our esteemed former Health Secretary. Now, I will be very clear from the beginning that I have absolutely NO sympathy for […]
2nd March 2023
The day the whole Council was sent to prison… With the Council Election looming in May, I thought we should try and understand what is right and what is wrong in electioneering… So, today we are having a History lesson and English lesson in one, […]
23rd February 2023
NIMBYs in tinfoil lined hats… all about 15-minute cities! NIMBYs in tinfoil lined hats… all about 15-minute cities! In the past few weeks there has been some frankly wild and bewildering conspiracy theories about the concept of 15-minute cities. An actual elected Member of the […]
16th February 2023
Old McClarkson had a farm…. All together now: Ee-i-ee-i-oh noooo! Ok, so please don’t ostracise me but I binge watched Clarkson’s Farm because I had read about the problems he was having with his local Council (West Oxfordshire District Council). Poor old Clarkson, he had […]
9th February 2023
Levelling Up committee puts Gove under the microscope… lets help them! Now we all know about the grubby backroom deal that Govey did with the rebel Tory back benchers about the Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill… You know, the one where 100 of them threatened […]
2nd February 2023
Brownfield – Now pay attention children, you got this wrong! Spare a thought for the poor teachers who must repeat the same things to their students ad infinitum… That is how I felt this week when I read the report by the Centre for Policy […]
26th January 2023
Levelling Up – The “oven ready” cake… One of the central promises of the December 2019 Tory manifesto – yes, the one that delivered Boris Johnson to power! – was to introduce ‘Levelling Up’. Now, Levelling Up was a new name for an old concept, […]
20th January 2023
Slamming on the brakes on the Local Plan… The sound of screeching tyres as brakes are slammed on Local Plans is rising like a cacophonic symphony by a modernist composer throughout England’s ‘green and pleasant land’… There are now over 30 councils that announced delays […]