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Les Baynton continues to hog the
headlines. Les was part of our
New Millennium tour party to Russia. And he wrote a
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Renewing participatory democracy Multiple Differential Uncertainty
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0075 Did you miss my post-holiday Note - tackling the grievous problems of Russia? Check it outAnd make sure you have not missed the previous edition of this Weblog Check it out Other recent topics highlighted below
New Police "The Police" are always in the news. No other public service has the same exposure, or carries the same range of public expectations. But our police management systems are in dire need of reform. And drop me a line back to top
Managing
August has forced the subject of
Where do you stand? Support America! I favour the approach taken by the US Government to the compulsory swearing of company accounts by individual Directors - these new control procedures are sound in principle.Find out more about company law reform, and sign up to the cause - read the www.newportmanifesto.net back to topLabour Party moves
Nothing turns on our change-of-office, in spite of all the holiday-season hype. Soaring London office-rents simply made Millbank too expensive, that's all.But the £5m overdraft is a quite different matter. For this reflects the growing professionalisation of politics The Party has a huge salary bill, and Party professionals have become much more powerful in the last thirty years. That is one of the factors undermining confidence in the political process generally. My hope is that the overdraft will force the Party to make better use of volunteers, and thus to return to more democratic ways. Fellow travellers!
You can now check in and start leaving messages for the rest of us at the Yahoo Noticeboard now operating - no charge! - Click straight through - This is a secure, closed Noticeboard, not for open public access, but you will need to give me your New Millennium "credentials" so that I can complete the signing-in process Roger WE
back to top Socialists - keep in touch with my latest attempt to track the
course of contemporary socialism, by way of my
Newton Agenda. Recent topics
And read my own Big Theory itself, at
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Baynton is the Poet Laureate of the North, from Derby. Les is a big bear of a
man, a former Primary headteacher, now freelancing, working with primary
children on poetry appreciation - combined with performing in pubs, at
weddings, Barmitzvahs -
and on coaches... Les is a very modern pub
poet, with his own Website.Johannesburg Alert These men 
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The Politics of Personality
English political convention rejects "personality politics". But that is not the whole truth. For most of us, personalities (our own, and those around us) configure our world. In politics, as everywhere personality is the glue of politics.. back to topFor OAP Just in case you blinked! August has brought the first radical breakthrough in pensions reform. It's a widely-backed plan for a new form of Universal Protected Pension, £130 per week at age 70. I agree with Frank Field, who says this is "the best show in town". What do you think? back to top Gross Domestic Product There is consternation among economists over the recalculation of Japan's Gross Domestic Product for 2001/02. New methods suggest that the performance of the Japanese economy was much worse than thought hitherto. If we cannot trust statistics from the G7 countries, which can we trust? See Financial Times A thoroughly I suspect that Weblogs will increasingly become the online diaries of the world, generating new historical records, not just chit-chat - to browse my 2002 diary thoughts just click through Special Footnote I love the online newspapers, which are my access to the world - share them with me - click through to their Homepages from here -
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Dangerous? Yep - I reckon they are.
