Democratic Society blog archive

The articles on this blog are maintained for continuity of links, etc.

The new Democratic Society blog can be found at http://www.demsoc.org/cms/blog.

I’m thoroughly enjoying the posters on the theme “Freedom of Expression” to be found at poster4tomorrow.

“Councils triumph at MJ awards” blares the headline in this weeks Municipal Journal, which is hardly surprising since only councils are allowed to enter.

Hammersmith & Fulham’s Conservative administration came out top as political team of the year (Waltham Forest were runners-up) and Ealing won best achieving council. It’s notable that there aren’t any awards for engagement, participation, or democracy promotion. Maybe next year…

No time for a proper post today or tomorrow because of LGA conference fun, but if you want to keep up with what’s happening, check out Twitter.

This afternoon I’ll be heading north to Harrogate to attend the Local Government Association conference, as part of the day job. While I’m there, I’ll be keeping an eye out for local government issues and updating the Twitter feed (@demsoc) regularly.

If any readers are also at the conference and want to say hello, leave a comment or drop me a line using the details on the contact page.

The BBC considers how the next US President is going to make use of the Internet. Here’s something I didn’t know:

Under privacy laws, the president-elect won’t be able to take the e-mail list with him into the White House, though he can e-mail everyone on it to ask if they want to join a new whitehouse.gov e-mail list.