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…and the soul-destroying impact of the continued isolation especially for those still vulnerable in this pandemic. …which is why my heart sank a little further on seeing this graph. It has been over a year since the country went into its first lockdown. In my case it started earlier because I simply wasn’t willing toContinue reading “Life thru social media lenses”

….Or is part of it a symptom of being stuck to the small screen in lockdown? Think of it like all of the scandals engulfing Boris Johnson’s administration but like the sketch below: ***Too much news!*** Plus I’m still trying to work out how to embed my new crowd-funding page into this blog of mine.Continue reading “Too much stuff going on – it’s exhausting!”

So said Mr Robert Halfon MP, Chair of the House of Commons Education Select Committee to a Westminster Hall debate in Parliament on Thurs 15 April 2021. You can watch/listen to his remarks here. You can read the full report by the Education Select Committee on Lifelong Learning here. It’s headline demand is for aContinue reading ““39% of employers admit to training none of their staff””

Even though some of the restrictions have been lifted recently, we will not be having the set piece exchanges where candidates face halls full of people asking lots of questions The candidate lists have now been published. As the database gets filled in, https://whocanivotefor.co.uk/ will be able to display the candidates in your area justContinue reading “How small businesses can help their communities engage with election candidates in the face of lockdown”

Including some of the background information you can use to ask questions of the candidates. You can find out who the candidates are in your area using your postcode at https://whocanivotefor.co.uk/ The candidates are also listed on the WikiPage for these elections here, and also on the Policing Insight page here. For those of youContinue reading “The Police & Crime Commissioner Elections 2021 for Cambridgeshire & Peterborough”

…and his Labour and Liberal Democrat opponents, Dr Nik Johnson & Cllr Aidan van de Weyer respectively, need to make the case for an alternative mass transit having rejected Mr Palmer’s plan for the CAM Metro. I was disappointed to read that Mr Palmer declined to take part in the Cambridge Cycling Campaign hustings. (ScheduledContinue reading “James Palmer should make the case for CAM Metro to Cambridge voters – including the 8,000+ people who voted Conservative in 2019”

How does one of Cambridge’s lower-profile wards look a year after some of us gathered on a cold January evening to discuss a council survey of the ward? (Unlike today which was the warmest day of the year and saw dozens of people on Coleridge Rec enjoying the sunshine after lockdown and a bitterly coldContinue reading “Community-building in Coleridge, Cambridge – a year after the Covid19 outbreak”

And if so, how does it go about acquiring such space in the expensive low-density suburbs that have little spare land going? It turns out that the call for better primary school buildings, playgrounds, and green spaces is not a new demand at all. As far as party political manifestos go, you can go backContinue reading “Does post-Covid Cambridge require a new generation of primary schools with large open green spaces?”