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Tag Archives: Politics
Rising to the occasion: the architecture of election counts
What was the most interesting thing about the Newark by-election earlier this month? Not the failure of UKIP to break through (for once I was glad a Conservative candidate won. A UKIP victory would have inflicted psychological damage on the Tories and been seized … Continue reading
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Tagged Architecture, Conservatives, Elections, History, Politics
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New Labour with a small ‘n’: a quiet revolution in the Town Hall
My first post on this new blog is about Greenwich – a borough in which I was a Labour councillor until May 2014 – and how a huge influx of new councillors is changing the culture of its council. What … Continue reading
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Tagged Elections, Greenwich, Labour, Localism, Politics, Woolwich
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