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Policy as a Vocation: Ruminations and DigressionsPer the subtitle, our “ruminating” aim is to serve as a protracted but constructive complaint with various public policy status-quos. Per “digressing,” we won’t hazard a guess, but imagine you’ll know it when you see it. |
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Unarchy: OLITICAL DISCOURSE FOR THE UNINITIATED (BUT THE INITIATED CAN STAY TOO)I have come neither to swindle nor to prey, but rather to educate and entertain. The only thing I may end up stealing from you is your heart (I could get a bundle for it on the black market, and in this economy...). |
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Safe seats and the MPs expenses scandal…
on Dec 31, 1969 in Government I want to come to a couple of back to back articles by Garrett FitzGerald in the Irish Times over the last two weeks in which he argues for a reforms that would see the Republic drop the STV system of Proportional Representation, for a rather complex...
Has the Department for Regional Development breached Purdah?
on Dec 31, 1969 in Government There is no doubt that with everybody (well, almost everybody) inside the same mandatory coalition, party advantage over your rivals is tougher than normal. Yesterday Eamon Ryan of the southern Greens announced that his party’s supporters shoul...
“You start a conversation you cant even finish…”
on Dec 31, 1969 in Government Great piece from Anthony Zacharzewski at the local democracy blog who lams into the latest Green Paper on local democracy... The document treats strengthening local democracy as equivalent to strengthening local councils. That’s part of it, but...
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on Jul 27, 2000 in Technology CCTV Government Privacy My first thought when I read about this is of a quote by Benjamin Franklin taken from the book, Memoirs of the life and writings of Benjamin Franklin which reads as follows; “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary s...
Mugabe's Latest Act of Terrorism
on Jul 14, 2005 in United Nations Act of Terrorism Mugabe terrorist acts government Operation Murambatsvina (sweep up the rubbish)The tragic deaths of three people, including two children (a 4 year old and an 18 month old baby) during the forced destruction of dwellings at Porta Farm on the outskirts of Harare on the 30th June serve...