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If this succeeds, it could be as significant as the work of Eglantyne Jebb’s uncle Sir Richard Jebb MP who piloted the Cambridge University and Corporation Act 1894 through its Commons stages following the Daisy Hopkins Spinning House scandal Don’t worry – I didn’t ask the present Vice Chancellor to apologise for the injustices doneContinue reading “University of Cambridge makes a big push for civic engagement”

The 122-year-old Workers’ Educational Association strongly criticised the lack of content on adult education in the recently-published further education and skills policy document “What is a White Paper again?” For those of you not familiar with the essentials of policy-making in the UK, a White Paper is a formal statement of government policy in aContinue reading “Post-16 Skills White Paper slammed by lifelong learning institution”

Ministers should have bitten the proverbial and called it the OxCamArc – because that’s what it is. And everyone involved is going to try and come up with an acronym or a term that is shorter than “Oxford to Cambridge Growth Corridor” You can browse through the prospectus here. I’ve written lots about the OxCamArcContinue reading “Look who’s back -> Oxford-Cambridge Investment Prospectus”

Will BBC News and Current Affairs have to provide them with more coverage vs Team Nigel? As the newly-elected leader of the Green Party of England and Wales posted, the party just smashed through the 130,000 members ceiling – with the 1,000 figure for Cambridge and South Cambridgeshire Green Party now already out of date.Continue reading “The Green Party’s latest membership surge – autumn 2025”

The Energy Secretary Ed Miliband published his report here. But what is the time lag between publication and results on the ground? Is this enough? A sizeable chunk of the report is focused on skills – even though it feels like politics has been banging on about it for years. The problem is that theContinue reading “Ed Miliband publishes Clean Energy Jobs Plan”

I think I’m at the ***Just build the damn thing and be done with it!*** stage The third consultation has been launched – see https://fensreservoir.co.uk/ ***Another consultation?!?*** Yes – I wrote about the Phase One consultation here back in 2022 In that earlier blogpost I asked: “Given the volume of earth that has to beContinue reading “Chatteris Reservoir consultation number three”

Transport consultant Edward Leigh, of whom a number of you will know, was commissioned by Cambridge Past Present and Future and was cross-examined by leading counsel at the inquiry. See my earlier blogpost for a summary of the inquiry and what it’s about. It is ***really heavy going*** so not for the faint-hearted One ofContinue reading “Cambridge Past Present and Future gives evidence to the Busway Inquiry”

The Mayor of the Combined Authority has published his draft local growth plan – a requirement from central government. As the saying goes, location, location, location You can read the plan at item 4 here The section conspcuous by its absence Why no mention of The Arts? That’s an incredible omission given the amount ofContinue reading “Cambridge’s new large concert hall is an acid test for how inclusive our city is”

I was going to title it Ugglington because the architectural style makes me feel ill with rage, but I thought better of it. Anyway, they’ve submitted their outline planning application. See the following: If you want to comment on this planning application…> …see the guidance from the Greater Cambridge Shared Planning Service here Note thatContinue reading “Eddington’s back with a big planning application”

Wandering through some superb videos by neurodiverse people on their journeys in an era of discovery, exploration, and overturning mindsets from the last millennium This sort of follows on from my earlier blogpost on all things neurodiversity and the challenge of having to unlearn so much from the late 20th Century in order to tryContinue reading “‘Child me’ had it more held together than ‘current me!’”