So I went to the TUC’s Netroots UK shindig yesterday. I missed the first session, and chose to not go to the one with Paul Mason in order to go to one with practical content, specifically Richard Blogger and Ellie Mae O’Hagan’s on defending the NHS from within. Having joined an NHS foundation trust, it…
Read More Notes from Netroots UK, and NHS total defenceSo, that Total Defence plan. Not long after blogging about the weird way becoming an NHS Foundation Trust member is mostly about the staff discounts, my Google Alert tail-warning receiver lit up. Specifically, it caught the fact that the Haringey Clinical Commissioning Group was going to have a public meeting, so off I went with…
Read More Report back: CCG meetingBack in the summer, as the News International scandal (well, beyond the scandal of its very existence) cranked up, we had a look at how the government buys newspaper display advertising and made an effort to reach out and touch the people in charge of it. I see no reason not to go round the…
Read More contacting the Government’s media-buying functionThe Government’s Central Office of Information, essentially its in-house advertising agency, spent £193 million on advertising in the financial year 2009-2010. The year before, it spent £211 million, making it the UK’s single biggest media buying desk. Is it appropriate for the Government to be spending taxpayers’ money propping up the deeply discredited News of…
Read More Who controls Government ad spending?The Government’s Central Office of Information, essentially its in-house advertising agency, spent £193 million on advertising in the financial year 2009-2010. The year before, it spent £211 million, making it the UK’s single biggest media buying desk. Is it appropriate for the Government to be spending taxpayers’ money propping up the deeply discredited News of…
Read More Who controls Government ad spending?So we did the Stag & Dagger festival. This translated into the following facts on the ground, which I propose to review briefly. Toro y Moi, at XOYO This lot could be interesting – if they stopped, ugh, jamming. EDIT. Ended up back in the bar with the house’s DJ. Venue is pretty great, too…
Read More your guide for this evening…At my local gym on Friday, I was accused of abusing steroids. Just like that – I’d finished my weights session and moved on to the abs, when some random guy approached me and said “Here – are you on gear?” No. “I mean, are you on gear?” No, I’m not on steroids. [Cancel the…
Read More now he’s stopped, he’s much better in our sex life and in our general lifeOK, so as well as the big demo, currently standing at 578 coaches and counting, there’s going to be a day of action on the NHS on the 1st of April – April Fool’s day, surely someone can make something creative out of that. So I thought I’d open another flank. Flipchart Fairy Tales has…
Read More There is no crisisSo what about that Public Data Corporation? I think it should be opposed with full force. Why? Well, the fact they want to structure it as a “corporation” is suspicious in itself – it’s going to be tempting to declare it a trading fund and force it to make profits, even if only in the…
Read More say no to the public data corporationThings to do this week: withdraw all my savings from ING Direct and take them elsewhere. Seriously, read the whole thing.
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