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Thoughts from the North: Today's the day
http://www.johncwoodman.com/2012/11/todays-day.html
Thoughts from the North. Political ramblings from a failed council candidate. Tuesday, 6 November 2012. There’s two surprising things about the US election. One is just how much the two candidates (and their supporters have spent) on largely negative advertising. The second is how close. It is It’s not even clear that the result will be known straight away given the opportunity for legal challenges in swing states. And out of control wars. I suspect that neither candidate will act particularly differently.
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Thoughts from the North: Why do people do silly things?
http://www.johncwoodman.com/2012/10/why-do-people-do-silly-things.html
Thoughts from the North. Political ramblings from a failed council candidate. Saturday, 6 October 2012. Why do people do silly things? A few weeks ago there were two announcements which had big implications for the companies involved and in different ways for the UK economy. One was about the West Coast rail franchise, taking it from Virgin trains and giving it to First Group. The second was the proposed merger between BAe and EADS. How did they let it happen? But again: why is this not obvious?
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Thoughts from the North: June 2008
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Thoughts from the North. Political ramblings from a failed council candidate. Saturday, 14 June 2008. The meaning of Life (the Universe and Everything). I'm a great admirer of the Sun. I'm baised for three reasons:. I was born in Haltemprice and Howden. The main principle underlying my political thinking is that the State can't be relied on to get things right, and we should therefore try to prevent it from doing too much or from interfering in our lives except when it has to. (When does it have to?
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Thoughts from the North: Hello again
http://www.johncwoodman.com/2011/09/hello-again.html
Thoughts from the North. Political ramblings from a failed council candidate. Thursday, 1 September 2011. It's been four months since I posted anything so there maybe no-one out there to read this. the trauma of being a golf club captain, and keeping that blog. Up to date, meant I didn't have time to maintain this one. But I'm no longer captain so hope to keep this up to date in future. Than the Guardian could ever dream of doing and Rupert Murdoch as someone who did more for media freedom. An important ...
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Thoughts from the North: Social housing allocations
http://www.johncwoodman.com/2014/04/social-housing-allocations.html
Thoughts from the North. Political ramblings from a failed council candidate. Saturday, 26 April 2014. One of the common problems raised with councillors seems to be how social housing is allocated. There's some general issues but some specific ones with housing in rural areas where the availability of private rented housing is limited and where there is a real need to give local people a chance to live in their communities to keep rural villages alive. People in housing need elsewhere. The policy needs ...
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Thoughts from the North: AV or not AV?
http://www.johncwoodman.com/2011/04/av-or-not-av.html
Thoughts from the North. Political ramblings from a failed council candidate. Wednesday, 20 April 2011. AV or not AV? I haven't posted on the referendum for two reasons: first because my focus has been on posting about life as a golf club captain. And second because I hadn't fully made up my mind. Has a whiff of fairness about it, but it also brings with it complexity, a change to something that doesn't really need fixing and an increase in the power of parties over individuals. Our current system is one...
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Thoughts from the North: 2012
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Thoughts from the North. Political ramblings from a failed council candidate. Monday, 27 August 2012. Had I been organised I’d have posted my thoughts on what was. Important for 2012 before the year was over half way through – in fact I’d have. Done it at the start of the year. I did generate the thoughts, I just never. Wrote them down. But better late than never:. At home, the economy is the most important thing: will there. Be a double dip recession and if so will it be long standing, will inflation.
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Thoughts from the North: 2011
http://www.johncwoodman.com/2011/02/2011.html
Thoughts from the North. Political ramblings from a failed council candidate. Wednesday, 9 February 2011. Predictions are best made after the event so (even with the advantage of being 8% of the way through the year) I will instead highlight what I think will be the important issues of 2011. Although most people have given this topic little thought, the vote in May. Will be very relevant to the future of the coalition. And future Parliaments. Which will make it harder to achieve its aims. From massive gr...
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Thoughts from the North: Why can't techies leave things alone?
http://www.johncwoodman.com/2012/08/why-cant-techies-leave-things-alone.html
Thoughts from the North. Political ramblings from a failed council candidate. Monday, 27 August 2012. Why can't techies leave things alone? I've just come back to the blog to find Google (who own blogger) have changed layouts, styles, fonts, the dashboard and so on. It worked perfectly well before. Its not obviously better now - it's just different and therefore less convenient because I (and at some other time in the past) other users have to re-learn how to finesse it to produce a desired result.
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Thoughts from the North: August 2008
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Thoughts from the North. Political ramblings from a failed council candidate. Sunday, 10 August 2008. Blowing in the Wind. The Government has just approved a wind farm at Middlemoor. Near Alnwick. (Subject to the MoD accepting that coastal radar defences are not affected). This is a real shame. It will look horrible as people drive past on the A1 to one of England's most beautiful areas (North Northumberland); even worse it will be visible once they get there. And at the same time, while we fiddle with w...
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