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Twittering to election victory!

23rd December 201522nd December 2015 by Tim Smith

Embed from Getty Images We have a bye-election pending in our constituency for the election of a new County Councillor. Of course we all want our party candidate to win a stunning victory, reflecting new leadership, new members and a revitalised political agenda. Fighting elections is nothing new, but we offer here the first … Read moreTwittering to election victory!

Labour plans to allow local authorities to buy land cheaply for development 29th May 2023

Exclusive: If elected next year, party would allow officials to buy up land at fraction of potential cost as part of ‘pro-building’ agendaLabour is planning to give local officials sweeping new powers to buy land cheaply and develop on it, as part of the party’s new “pro-building” agenda.Party sources say that if elected next year, […]

Kiran Stacey

Cabinet Office may take legal action to deny Covid inquiry Boris Johnson material 29th May 2023

Such a challenge over Lady Hallett’s request for unredacted diaries and messages would be seen as unprecedentedThe Cabinet Office could take unprecedented action to prevent Boris Johnson’s unredacted diaries and WhatsApp messages being handed over to the official Covid inquiry, the Guardian had been told.Officials are preparing to issue a response to the inquiry chair, […]

Aubrey Allegretti

Tom Johnston on Britain’s out of touch political masters – cartoon 29th May 2023

Tom Johnston

NHS England workforce plan delayed amid rumours of cost issues 29th May 2023

Health secretary Steve Barclay not confirming when strategy to increase numbers of doctors and nurses will be publishedNHS leaders have raised concerns about the delay to the long-awaited workforce plan, after the health secretary, Steve Barclay, refused to give a deadline for its publication and with rumours suggesting it is considered too costly.The plan, which […]

Rachel Hall

Plan to scrap specialist sex offender teams ‘a danger to public safety’, says probation union 29th May 2023

Highly skilled officers in England and Wales to be replaced by less qualified staff under MoJ proposalsPlans to disband specialist teams that deliver treatment courses for sex offenders have prompted fears public safety will be jeopardised.Under the Ministry of Justice proposals, which are being fiercely resisted internally, behaviour programmes for a wide variety of offenders […]

Danny Shaw

Britain’s ever-harsher welfare system means that now only the rich can afford to make art | Alex Niven 29th May 2023

Postwar artists wouldn’t have had a chance without affordable housing or social security. When will politicians realise that?When John Lydon sang in 1976 that anarchy was coming to the UK, he wasn’t far wrong. Genuine anarchism (a noble political tradition) certainly didn’t descend on Britain in the wake of punk rock and Margaret Thatcher’s general […]

Alex Niven

More than 90 English primary schools to close or face closure for lack of pupils 29th May 2023

Guardian analysis lays bare effect of dwindling pupil numbers and associated funding amid rising housing and childcare costs‘Where am I going to send my children?’: anguish as schools closeMore than 90 English primary schools – many of them in cities and towns – are to close or are at risk of closure because they are […]

Carmen Aguilar García and Heather Stewart

About Collective Conversations:

This journal of comment and analysis is devised and published in the East of England.

Editor: Tim Smith MA, FRSA
"Now living in rural Suffolk, I have wondered all my adult life why ordinary people like me, would vote to make the policies of the self-interested Right ascendant? I now think, older as I am, that I have pursued entirely the wrong question, despite voting Labour my entire life. Why on earth cannot collaborative social innovation make the compassionate Left successfully ascendant? This is the new quest".

He is a Partner at SmithMartin LLP, a Norfolk based social business dedicated to projects tackling inequality.

Collective Conversations is a not for profit, publishing project - the views and interpretations expressed are solely those of the individual contributors to the work.

No endorsement of any party or person is sought or implied...

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