Monthly Archives: May 2023

How far has Cambridge progressed since I raised these issues nine years ago? These are from the minutes of the annual council meeting of June 2014 that saw Cambridge Labour take political control of Cambridge City Council off of the Liberal Democrats. Scroll just over halfway down and you’ll get to the public questions whichContinue reading “Holding local public service institutions to account – state run or privatised”

A ‘thinking out aloud’ piece on what it could include, how it could be run, and what pitfalls to avoid. As I mentioned in my previous blogpost: “Democracy workshops – what I wrote five years ago: is it relevant to today? This is what I wrote in April 2018 – some four months after coming outContinue reading “Pilot democracy & citizenship workshops in South Cambridge”

Not bad from a standing start – would have been nice to have gotten to 300 though! First of all, thank yous to: A reminder on why I agreed to have my name on the ballot paper Above: At no point did my campaign literature say ***vote for me!*** The way our electoral system worksContinue reading “Cambridge Elections – 261 votes with 9% of the total votes in Queen Edith’s”

The developers have branded it ‘Capital Park Cambridge’ even though the site sits outside Cambridge’s 1935-era municipal boundaries – as property development continues apace, not stopping for the local elections TL/DR?: Go to the event on Wed 10 May 2023 at the CPC2 building from 4pm-8pm. The Citi1 takes you there by bus from bothContinue reading “Capital Park, Fulbourn consultation – more science labs east of Cambridge”

Not only from a social justice perspective, but also because their own communities benefit as well Sadly we do not have the governance structures or systems to make it happen. Yet. “Cambridge has the potential to become a city greater than the sum of our parts” has been a theme of almost everything I’ve bloggedContinue reading “Cambridge elections – why residents in affluent wards can support city-wide facilities beyond their areas”

Supporting our county’s teachers in the face of chronic underfunding in our grossly unequal city Please don’t forget their plight and the plight of children and families struggling in our underfunded education system. It’s election day on 04 May 2023 – put your Qs to the candidates https://whocanivotefor.co.uk/ Although Cambridge City Council stopped being responsibleContinue reading “Teachers’ strike rally in Cambridge”