Lord Turnbull betrays civil service

Andrew (“Lord”) Turnbull giving evidence to the Public Administration Select Committee (pdf here) (December 15, 2005): I am going to start like the Vicar of St Anthony’s: my text is the Civil Service Code verses 9 and 13: “Civil servants should conduct themselves in such a way as to deserve Read more…

Community work for immigrants?

According to the Press Assocation, Gordon Brown is going to suggest that migrants should be obliged to carry out community work: Immigrants should undertake community work before they are granted UK citizenship, Gordon Brown is due to say. The BBC reports that Mr Brown is expected to tell a seminar Read more…

Food miles

Take a look at Clive writing about Food Miles: Food miles are useless. There is no doubt that transport intensity in the food supply system has been increasing – driven by forces of globalisation, consolidation in retailing, larger shops with more choice meeting demand for year-round supply, car-based shopping etc. Read more…

Online identities

A new, open source, distributed identity management service called OpenID is making waves in the online community.  We need user-centric, trusted identity management system, and this could be it.

Giving birth in Burkina Faso

On Friday I visited a school, clinic and vocational training centre in Burkina Faso in a village in Bazega province, about an hour south of Ougadougou. La Fondation pour le Développement Communautaire de Burkina Faso supports government schools and clinics, and it operates an agricultural training college. The programme in Read more…