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We have a difference of opinion, or: the Park Keeper's Lodge, and another...
Victoria Park: an early 20th century view - from 'Finchley & Friern Barnet, a Pictorial History', by Stewart Gillies and Pamela TaylorWhether or not you have a curiosity about the distant past, the...
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Dancing with the park: the story of the Lodge, continued
Summertime, in Broken Barnet, is the most dangerous season of the year. While Parliament is in recess, and council business slows down, our lucky Tory councillors pack their suitcases, and head off for...
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Another Blot on the Landscape: the threat to Victoria Park, and what you can...
Residents fighting the development of the Park Keeper's Lodge, in Victoria ParkThe infant Mrs Angry, you may be surprised to hear, was quite often in trouble, as a young child, with her sternly...
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The Park Keeper's Lodge: your last chance to object ...
The story of the sale of the Park Keeper's Lodge, in Victoria Park, the subject of the last three posts, is of course about so much more than the sorry tale of the fate of one historic building, in one...
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Biting the ballot: voting for leader, and the future of the Labour party
A souvenir of last year's Conference in BrightonA few weeks ago there was a meeting of members of the Finchley and Golders Green constituency party, held in order to discuss the leadership vote. This...
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Conference 2016 - it's called Socialism, or: the Leaving of Liverpool
Sometimes people will tell you that they cannot remember anything of their early childhood: nothing before the age of six, or eight, or thereabouts ... I never believe these claims, and mistrust anyone...
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Black October: Barnet Tories sharpen the axe bringing devastating cuts to...
Victoria Park Lodge, October 2016Ah yes: autumn. Season of mists, and mellow fruitfulness: the time of harvest, where once we laid the altars with the bountiful goodness of our labour in the fields,...
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Censored: Barnet Tories, gagging residents' views, once more ...
Updated Monday:This morning, despite the best efforts of the Crapita switchboard operator who hotly denied, for twenty minutes, that there were any such posts, Mrs Angry contacted the acting Assurance...
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I, Mrs Angry: a night at the pictures, the 'reshaping' of a library, and -...
I am not a client, a customer, nor a service user.I am not a shirker, a scrounger, a beggar, nor a thief.I am not a national insurance number, nor a blip on a screen.I paid my dues, never a penny short...
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For Ed Vaizey - The (Library) Caretaker: A play in praise of cutting libraries.
For Ed Vaizey, the former Tory minister in charge of libraries - who did for the public library service what Jeremy Hunt is doing to the NHS, & has complained in the Telegraph about the lack of...
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Remember, remember: the 5th November march for libraries
Barnet Unison Library convenor Hugh Jordan addresses the libraries demoYesterday saw a march in London on behalf of campaigners fighting to defend the foundations of our cultural life from death by a...
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The Ritual of Vengeance: Welsh blogger Jacqui Thompson fights for her home
If in the ritualOf vengeance he live,He makes perpetualHis failure to forgive.No; to those arbitersOf true behaviourThere is no strength but stirsTo honour its saviour.Vernon WatkinsOne of the more...
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A Mid Course Correction, or: Communicating the Journey We Are On - the Barnet...
Arriving in the committee room on Tuesday night, before the Performance & Contract monitoring meeting, Mrs Angry noted that senior officers from Crapita had already staked out their territory in...
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Quite significant changes: or, Barnet library services cut to shreds, staff...
Barnet Council - Shame on You: Pic courtesy Barnet Press and the Barnet SocietyLast night Mrs Angry went to the Town Hall, to the General Functions Committee, to watch the Tory councillors give their...
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All Fall Down: Planning and Enforcement in Broken Barnet
Updated 9th DecemberIn fact it seems the scale of lack of enforcement in Barnet is far, far worse than could have been imagined: since publishing this yesterday, the post has not only received record...
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No More Order and Decorum, at the White and Funny Bear - or: another...
There has been an inn called the White Bear on this site since 1736: here it is in 2016, courtesy of your Tory councillors, a local developer, and Crapita. Then a soldier fond of battle,Who has fought...
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Dan Hope: the Barnet Bugle - a tribute
I can't remember, now, when I first met the Barnet Bugle: probably at a council meeting, maybe six years or so ago. I found him, at first, an infuriating figure - a Tory blogger, determined to wind up...
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Wrecking Ball, or - Mrs Angry's Basement Tapes: building enforcement in the...
Looking from a neighbouring house to the Vivian Avenue basement excavation, where the land has collapsed, after basement excavations - and the demolition of a property with planning approval only: but...
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NHS SOS: or, how to hide a crisis in healthcare, in Broken Barnet
Mrs Angry may have mentioned, once or twice, that she has a bad back. Has done for about 15 years: a tendency to problems with discs, and trapped nerves. And now she is in her twilight years, and in a...
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Your Life in Their Hands: or, local accountability in a time of NHS crisis,...
Coming soon, courtesy of your Tory health minister: DIY NHS: In the interests of transparency, Mrs Angry must declare that she is participating in a pre-launch trial.Let's continue the theme of the...
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