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despite the City elections. Over the last couple of weeks, my activities as a Common Councilman have included a visit to The City Academy Hackney where I’m one of the City-elected governors. As someone with a languages background (my BA degree was in Russian Language & Literature), I take a particular interest in the teaching
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Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia from 1762 until her death in 1796, was a great believer in ‘maxims’ – short, pithy instructions aimed at improving both herself and her subjects. She was also, at least until her last years, a very good manager of people. So what could she teach today’s managers and HR
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Rounding Election Flyer
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According to the Guidance issued to candidates and agents, at City of London elections candidates can be considered ‘joint candidates’ if they do any of the following: employ the same election agent use the services of the same clerk or messengers hire or use the same committee rooms at an election publish joint addresses, circulars
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In January, like most of my fellow Common Councilmen, I received an e-mail from Naomi Colvin of the City Reform Group, asking me to sign up to what she called ‘our Pledges’. These were listed as: 1. We will promote commerce within the City on the basis of its ability to serve its customers. 2.
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Zoe Williams wrote in The Guardian on Boxing Day about the opportunity presented by the current housing crisis: “The housing crisis is not a threat, it’s an opportunity. We need more social housing, we need a more vigorous construction industry, and we need things for a government to invest in, rather than rounds of quantitative
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I’ve been meaning to start an online diary of my activities and experiences as a Common Councilman of the City of London (for the Ward of Farringdon Within) for some time, particularly as I don’t fit the stereotype portrayed by the so-called ‘City Reform Group‘ or Bryn Phillips of Occupy – that is, I’m not
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It was my birthday last week and, in one way of looking at it, too many years have gone by, without enough achieved, and it’s all downhill from here. A few books written – but not enough, and not successful enough – and too much time spent in ‘the whole corroding business of administration’, as
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