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Category: Politics

  • The iceberg uncovered

    This week’s edition of The Economist arrived in the post this morning. Not an unusual event, really, except it reminded me that last week’s didn’t show up until Tuesday because of the postal strike for three days. Which followed the…

  • Last chance saloon for Royal Mail and CWU

    Driving home from Lancashire on Thursday night, I passed a number of big white articulated trucks on the M6 motorway heading south. Only one had logos or signage although I’m assuming all were doing the same thing – transporting the…

  • Postal strike nonsense

    From reading media reports over the past few days about the forthcoming national strike of postal workers called by the CWU trade union, planned for October 22 and 23, it’s hard to understand the logic of such a move. Some…

  • The big role of the social web in election campaigning

    The final week of the party political conference season is upon us: this week, it’s the Conservative Party in Manchester with all the media attention on the party and its leader David Cameron, who could be our next Prime Minister…

  • The electoral register and choices

    Each year at this time, local councils throughout the UK send out the Annual Canvass for the Electoral Register, a form that everyone over the voting age of 18 is required to complete in order to be listed in the…