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Are there some moral lines that outsourcing of public services should not cross?

Summary Should all public services and state functions be open for outsourcing or are there some lines that should not be crossed? The difference with this blogpost compared to others I’ve cover… more →

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Are there some moral lines that outsourcing of public services should not cross?

adragonsbestfriend wrote 4 hours ago: Summary Should all public services and state functions be open for outsourcing or are there some lin … more →

Tags: business-economics-and-finance, Charities and Big Society, Data, science and statistics, Employment and job hunting, Public administration & policy

The Great Divides - An Essay on The People's Assembly meeting in Sheffield

Xpolso wrote 9 hours ago: The Great Divides It was mid-May and I attended a local People’s Assembly meeting, a group of anti-c … more →

Tags: the peoples' assembly, Politics, Left Wing, austerity, Cuts, Labour, Conservative, UKIP, London

Cambridge City Council ceremonials - and the refreshed administration

adragonsbestfriend wrote 1 day ago: Summary What happens when you put a dragon fairy on a council chamber’s media desk Rain, buses … more →

Tags: Cambridge, Public administration & policy

All change at Cambridgeshire County Council

adragonsbestfriend wrote 3 days ago: Summary Some observations following today’s first full council following the 2013 local govern … more →

Tags: Cambridge

A Parliamentary Commission on the Civil Service — 1 comment

adragonsbestfriend wrote 4 days ago: Summary Some thoughts on the call from the Chairman of the Public Administration Select Committee fo … more →

Tags: Public administration & policy, Social Media

Curious creatures these defecting Tories — 14 comments

Autonomous Mind wrote 4 days ago: Very interesting to read in the Telegraph today that Conservative activists have begun defecting to … more →

Tags: Conservatives, UKIP

American Politics

Articles, Recipes & Reviews wrote 5 days ago: A Shortage of Mercy As the economy twists downward for most of us — as the politics of money t … more →

Tags: Congress, Economy, obama, American Presidents, Federal Budget, Foreign Policy, Politics, American Politics

Big Issue founder John Bird fires rockets at charities and civil service

adragonsbestfriend wrote 1 week ago: Summary A write-up of John Bird’s recent visit to Cambridge A few of you may know that I am a … more →

Tags: business-economics-and-finance, Cambridge, Charities and Big Society, Public administration & policy

Woodrow Wilson House Perennial Garden Party — 5 comments

Necessary-and-Proper wrote 1 week ago: Yesterday evening, the Woodrow Wilson House held its annual Garden Party fundraiser. Guests toasted … more →

Tags: dvf, Entertaining, Fashion, Jimmy Choo, Marc Jacobs, Ramy Brook

"Whose side are the professions on?" — 5 comments

adragonsbestfriend wrote 1 week ago: Summary A short series of thoughts on today’s Public Accounts Committee hearing on tax avoidan … more →

Tags: business-economics-and-finance, Campaigning, protesting and demonstrating, Law and Legal Issues, Public administration & policy

Public policy - is it academia vs party politics? — 3 comments

adragonsbestfriend wrote 1 week ago: Summary Some thoughts from a couple of talks inside Cambridge’s public policy community Puffle … more →

Tags: Cambridge, Charities and Big Society, Data, science and statistics, Public administration & policy, Social Media

Is your university undermining local government?

adragonsbestfriend wrote 1 week ago: Summary Some thoughts on Phil Rogers’ findings on electoral trends in Cambridge – with s … more →

Tags: Public administration & policy, Cambridge, Campaigning, protesting and demonstrating

What role is there for civic society & local government social media in boosting voter turnout? — 3 comments

adragonsbestfriend wrote 1 week ago: Summary Some thoughts from a Cambridgeshire perspective. I had a look at the turnout figures for the … more →

Tags: Cambridge, Social Media, Charities and Big Society

Do we need a Fairtrade-style labelling system for manufactured products? — 4 comments

adragonsbestfriend wrote 2 weeks ago: Summary Can such a labelling system help shoppers make the conscious choice to buy products manufact … more →

Tags: Public administration & policy, Campaigning, protesting and demonstrating, Employment and job hunting, Charities and Big Society, business-economics-and-finance, Law and Legal Issues

Surge of UKIP

porridgeandrhi wrote 2 weeks ago: I decided to jump on the band wagon, and write up a ranting post of the surge of UKIP. I have just w … more →

Tags: Politics 2, UK, uk politics, democracy, Political, Whitehall, UKIP, EU, Europe

The Lib Dems Are Not Yet Finished

Richard Wood wrote 2 weeks ago: http://shiftinggrounds.org/2013/05/the-lib-dems-are-not-yet-finished/ This is my first piece for … more →

Tags: UK politics, UKIP, Nick Clegg, Elections, UK, democracy, Labour, Conservatives, Lib Dems

New voices and new choices

princeofpeacereformation wrote 2 weeks ago: I went to vote recently in our local mid-term elections. Arriving at the polling station I discovere … more →

Tags: Financial Crisis, bankers, Conservative, Conspiracy, election, financial crisis, Jeffrey Sachs, Labour, Queens' Speech

"Time for revolution rather than evolution?" A response to Steph Gray & GovUK friends — 5 comments

adragonsbestfriend wrote 2 weeks ago: Summary Some thoughts from the Open Policy Teacamp This blogpost stems from the Open Policy Teacamp  … more →

Tags: Public administration & policy, Social Media, Data, science and statistics

Party: the Tyranny of Faction — 13 comments

Joe_Bakanovic wrote 2 weeks ago: Political Parties are another form of artificial entity, and, as such, they share in all threats pos … more →

Tags: & Natural Law, Founding Ideology and Original Intent, Human Nature


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