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Weekly Diary 18th November 2013
Remembrance Sunday, Ken Weston RIP and the weekly diary
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Weekly Diary 10th November 2013
Waterpark under threat and campaigning stories.
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Inequality in the UK
We haven’t seen this degree of inequality since the feudal barons. Prosperous democracies thrive when the gap is reduced and perceived as ‘fair’.
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Strong communities can’t do everything but don’t get in the way of them doing what they can do
Interesting and perhaps challenging thoughts from Cormac Russell below. Is it a license for councils to walk away? Perhaps it is, but only to do something of a greater benefit, rather than just to simply cut. Frighteningly, if ‘walking away’ isn’t preceded with, and associated with letting go of…
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You Decide
Winning Bids Why would a coming together of nearly two hundred local residents to determine which community groups receive council funding be controversial? The ‘You Decide Day’ last month at Stretford High and other places across Trafford was followed almost immediately by a negative dismissal from certain angles. Historically, the…
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An Alternative Guide to the new NHS in England – from The Kings Fund
I love this video from the Kings Fund.It’s informative rather than political but it illustrates thecomplexity of the new structures that Lansley and Hunt have imposed onus. And it does so in such an easy manner! Highly recommended.