Tag Archives: Internal Politicking

The Irish Presidential Race: Dragons’ Den Vs the pious poet politician

Replace the monarch with an elected president, the argument used to go, and Frank Bruno could end up as British head of state.  For Frank Bruno you can now read Duncan Bannatyne or Theo Paphitis. That, at least, is if … Continue reading

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Political politics

This week, Chris Cook in the FT (on blackberry so no link) revealed that some Department for Education Special Advisers were using personal email accounts to organise various bits of their work. As with the revelation that some officials had … Continue reading

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A separate Scottish Conservative Party does not mean an end to the Union

‘Tories set to disband in Scotland‘ is the dramatic headline in the Sunday Telegraph, the paper warns that ‘Cameron faces constitutional crisis with no Scottish MPs’. Dramatic stuff, but really? Tory leadership hopeful, Murdo Fraser’s proposal is, as I understand, … Continue reading

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My supermarket can teach the government some relationship lessons

I recently wrote about the potential for crowd-sourcing as a useful and productive way for the government to engage further with voters.  I’ve also recently suggested that a corollary for the transparent government agenda should be greater use of crowd-sourcing, … Continue reading

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The Purple Book is Cameron’s Big Opportunity

A piece a couple of weeks ago by Rachel Sylvester (£)attracted a lot of attention. “Purple and orange: united colours of a coalition” it describes efforts by “New Labour” to revive itself and to make itself relevant to the Labour … Continue reading

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