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Follow my leader: voting for Jeremy Corbyn, and for a better future for the...
The five years or so since beginning this blog have been tumultuous, for Mrs Angry, in many ways, and yes, she is trying very hard to not to tell you she has been on something of a - God help us all -...
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No, it's never just a book: a march for Barnet Libraries
A couple of days after the General Election in May there was a march, here in Broken Barnet: a demonstration organised to protest against the planned assault, by the Tory council, on our library...
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A last eviction, and the sweet smell of success, for Annington, in Sweets Way:
Well, yes: it's all been kicking off, again, today, and yesterday, in Sweets Way. Always a sign of significance, when the Guardian turns up, or a film crew, or Russell Brand: the medium is the message,...
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Divine Discontent, or: Another world is possible - Brighton 2015, and another...
“My work has consisted of trying to stir up a divine discontent with wrong ...”. Keir HardieThe Labour Conference this year, from the perspective of only a few months ago, looked to be a very...
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The hollowed out library: Barnet Tories' war on public services continues
“What is the use of a book," thought Alice, "without pictures or conversation?” - Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland "And what is...
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Point me to the skies: in which Mrs Angry goes to a council meeting, and pays...
Bloggers Mr Reasonable, Mr Tichborne, Mrs Thatcher, and Cllr Devra KayShine through the gloom and point me to the skies; Heav’n’s morning breaks, and earth’s vain shadows flee; In life, in death, O...
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A tendency to disagree: or Full Council, and how to kill a library service,...
Next door to the Town Hall, in the Burroughs, where all Barnet council meetings take place, stands Hendon Library. Another pleasing example of the buildings which are now part of a conservation area,...
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At Risk: or - Welcome to the Open Library: a Survival Guide
Take Mrs Angry's hand: come with her now, in the dark, dank gloom of an autumnal afternoon in Finchley, down (or is it up?) the garden path, right to the very end of the garden, to her ramshackle old...
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It does feel a bit meaningless: or - what is a library? - Another library...
Updated Tuesday 8th December: SAVE BARNET LIBRARIESWe are pleased to present this new animated film, illustrating exactly what sort of awful fate your Tory councillors have in store for your local...
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Mrs Angry's Christmas Card
Mrs Angry wishes all her readers, dear friends - far and near; comrades and fellow campaigners, a very happy Christmas - and a New Year just stuffed full of ... peace, mercy, goodwill, and above all:...
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A cut of the business: Easycouncil 2015 - or another year outsourced, in...
Time for Mrs Angry's look back at the year in Broken Barnet.Fewer posts written this year, but the blog has focused on a number of issues which have developed, through the last twelve months, and...
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Something Went Wrong, or: the scrutiny of a Capita contract, in Broken Barnet
On Thursday night, Mrs Angry went to the Town Hall, to attend a meeting of the Performance and Contract Management Committee. (No - don't go anywhere: I had to sit through it - and now so do you).Q:...
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Friday Joke: keeping warm and well, in Broken Barnet - visit a library (until...
No, you couldn't. You really couldn't. Make it up. But here it is: the Friday joke, courtesy of Barnet Council:Barnet Council @BarnetCouncil Jan 16Download our factsheet for tips on staying warm and...
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Sunday joke, from a Barnet Tory Councillor ... David Bowie, and the joy of...
More rib-tickling library fun from twitter, last night, for the residents of Broken Barnet - Hampstead Garden Suburb councillor Gabriel Rozenberg, bless him, who spends his time fighting unknown depths...
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The Last Betrayal, or - the breaking of West Hendon, and the making of a...
Left by a resident of West Hendon, on moving out of a compulsorily purchased homeI've lost count, now, of the number of posts I've written about West Hendon, and the eviction of a community from the...
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Sweet Nothings: or - Mrs Angry's guide to outsourcing.
For all the tweeting Barnet Tory councillors, including the leader Richard Cornelius, and deputy leader and aspiring London Assembly member Dan Thomas, who appear not to understand the basic rules of...
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Open Season: or - the Library without Librarians - tested by Barnet campaigners
A body in the library: who dunnit? Your Tory councillors ...read on ...A question, for you, dear reader.What is a library?Is it perhaps a place where you might go to borrow something to read? Or a...
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A Ghostlier Heritage, or: the Forgotten History of West Hendon
There is so much that could be written about the history of West Hendon, that has gone virtually unrecorded, or at least - unacknowledged, and that may now be passing out of memory, destined to become...
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Chicago, Chicago: it's whose kind of town? A mystery unsolved, in Broken Barnet
Updated Friday: see below, after Old Blue Eyes ...Ok. Hands up. Project Chicago: what's that all about? Is there any significance in the name? wondered Councillor Anthony Finn, Chair of the Performance...
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Strawberry Vale: a new battlefront in the war on the poor, in Broken Barnet
Barnet and Camden AM Andrew Dismore and local councillors witness Red Cross deliveries in Strawberry ValeLook at this picture.It is a photograph of a Red Cross vehicle bringing food to a community in...
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