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Re-banking the UK: How to create a diverse lending infrastructure
No comments on Re-banking the UK: How to create a diverse lending infrastructureA report from the New Weather Institute written by David Boyle with proposals for further reform of the UK banking system.
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Random Thoughts: A catch up for the rest of June 2013
In this edition we have a birthday chimp, a couple of Russells, and a lot of Boyle. Another unscheduled gap in blogging and a fair bit to catch up on. Although we are (to my surprise) well in to July, here is a catch for June. This is the latest in my series of Random Thoughts posts with links, things found on the web and other stuff that has occurred to me between 19 June…
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Random Thoughts for 18th June 2013
This is the latest in my series of Random Thoughts posts with links, things found on the web and other stuff that has occurred to me between 10th June 2013 and 18th June 2013: A personal guide to the 13 most essential political podcasts | Stephen Tall Stephen gives a comprehensive guide to the podcast listening choices available for politicos. I regularly listen to a subset of these. The one addition I would make —…
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Random Thoughts for 29th April 2013
This is the latest in my series of Random Thoughts posts with links, things found on the web and other stuff that has occurred to me between 20th April 2013 and 29th April 2013: Liberal Democrats for Electoral Reform The Liberal Democrats for Electoral Reform have set up a new website as part of the Reform Groups Network. Burn our planet or face financial meltdown. Not much of a choice – Will Hutton This is…
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Random Thoughts for 8th April 2013: A late March catch-up
This is the latest in my series of Random Thoughts posts with links, things found on the web and other stuff that has occurred to me between 19th March 2013 and 8th April 2013. This is a catch up of things from the end of March and the beginning April 2013. Probably appears even more random than usual as I am posting it late and have been erratic in adding links. Look at the tracks…
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Random Thoughts for 24th January 2013
This is the latest in my series of Random Thoughts posts with links, things found on the web and other stuff that has occurred to me between 9th January 2013 and 24th January 2013: 150 great things about the Underground This month we celebrated 150 years of the London Underground. So I am linking to this fantastic blog (hat-tip Liberal England ). Looking through it I was blown away by the richness and extent of the…
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Random Thoughts for August 2012
This is the latest in my series of Random Thoughts posts with links, things found on the web and other stuff that has occured to me. Not had one for a while so this is the bumper August edition. Lets start with a double helping of baby animals at Whipsnade Zoo: Baby hippo makes debut dip Triple celebrations as lynx kitten triplets are born at ZSL Whipsnade Zoo I found this rather amusing; Charles Kennedy: Gonzo Is…
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Random Thoughts for 22nd June
This is the latest in my series of Random Thoughts posts with links, things found on the web and other stuf that has occured to me between 17th June and 22nd June: Danny Alexander’s speech to the GMB I was hugely impressed by Danny Alexander’s speech to the conference of the GMB union. A well constructed mix of support and challenge that struck exactly the right tone. “although these are incredibly difficult and testing times, there are…
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Random Thoughts 14: the first half of 2012
This is a first half of the year catch up post for my series of Random Thoughts posts. This is a collection of links, things found on the web and other stuf that has occured to me – but, along with my fall off in blogging activity generally, the collection of links for these posts also slowed down. But there are still a few that I think are worth sharing. Michael Kiwanuka – Tell Me…
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Luton Council’s budget for 2011
The annual meeting to agree Luton Borough Council’s budget was held this month on Wednesday 16th February. I was there sitting on the Liberal Democrat benches in my role as a local councillor. As usual the meeting generated a lot of heat and only some occasional flashes of light, and as seems to be becoming a habit I probably ended up speaking too much. Local government and the services that it provides face some significant…
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Vince Cable at the European Parliament: “A rising tide lifts all boats”
Business Secretary Vince Cable caused a great deal of overblown media fuss in his conference speech in Liverpool the other week by explaining some fairly basic economic theory. As good a speech as that was, I have been much more impressed by the remarks he made on Friday to a meeting of MEPs at the European Parliament in Brussels. While it has fewer jokes, I think that this speech is of much more significance and…
