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(Not) Sleeping Easily in Our Beds, and - Who is Minding the Council? A week...
Fellow blogger Mr Roger Tichborne, of the Barnet Eye, modelling this season's must wear t shirt.Having tried very hard, over the last year or so, to avoid the ordeal of sitting through yet another...
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Project Rose: the devastating report Barnet Tories didn't want you to read
Barnet Tory leader Richard Cornelius at a recent residents' meetingSummer in Broken Barnet has always been a dangerous season. A time when devious council strategists quietly slip out any awkward...
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Rue Morgue: the strange story of Barnet's missing Heritage Collection
An archival storage facility, in the age of outsourcingTime now for a detour through one of the back lanes of Broken Barnet: a meandering stroll that in itself reveals, in grim metaphor, a larger...
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Hey, hey, Theresa May: How many women have you robbed today? The Great...
'BackToSixty's Yvette Cooper and Joanne Welch (second and third from left) in the road outside Parliament with other protesting women facing pension lossOver the last few years, in my role as roving...
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Saracens at the gate, or: Barnet Tories and a £22 million loan
St Mark rescuing a Saracen from a Shipwreck - TintorettoWe are they who come faster than fate: we are they who ride early or late:We storm at your ivory gate: Pale Kings of the Sunset, beware!War Song...
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Kicking Out Capita - an Inquiry at the House of Commons
A trio of Barnet bloggersArriving at Westminster, on Tuesday night, and being a little early, I thought I might park Mrs Angry on a bench somewhere, reading over her speech for the meeting, and...
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Remembrance Day in Broken Barnet, 2018
Remembrance Day, North Finchley, 2018It seems to be increasingly the thing to do, these days, to reject the idea of remembrance, to raise criticisms of the wearing of a red poppy, and to present any...
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Willow House: After the fire
On June 14th, one year after the tragic loss of life in the Grenfell fire, Barnet's Tory group Leader issued the following press release:“The Grenfell Tower fire deeply shocked and saddened us all. One...
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A Matter of Regret: or - who runs Barnet Council, anyway? Another winter of...
The view from Hendon Town Hall entranceWell. Another extraordinary few weeks in Broken Barnet.Let us set the scene.All around the borough, the scale of failure of the current Tory administration is...
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The winter of our discontent, or: another load of old rubbish, from Barnet...
Tory councillors on New Year's DayLet us return to happier days, to last September, at the end of a seemingly never ending summer made all the more glorious, for our Tory councillors, by the absence of...
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The Right Thing to Do: or - Heading off the Public Noise - Barnet Tories and...
An example of the grudgingly released, and still redacted, Barnet/Saracens correspondenceWell, then. Time for a return to a story we followed last year, in the midst of Tory Barnet's financial...
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The Tail Wagging the Dog: Capita and Barnet - a joint post.
The Tail Wagging the Dog: Capita and BarnetBarnet's Conservative led administration has never been so divided.Since the local elections last May, new members of the Tory group have been confronted with...
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A Critical Error, or - the gun put to your head: a meeting of the council...
The Man From Capita appears at the Pensions Committee: to his left, Cllr FinnOn Tuesday night, I turned up a little early at the Town Hall, and went to sit down in the foyer, before the meeting. As I...
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A matter of life or death, or: A Critical Error, updated
Barnet Council: Open, Transparent, and ProactiveJust to update the previous post: After complaining about the remarks made by Councillor Anthony Finn, at the last Pensions meeting, the matter was...
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Suffer the little Children: the unwritten history of the former St Vincent's...
"Whatever you did not do for the least of these, you did not do for me". (Matthew 25, verse 40): said to be the inspiration for St Vincent de Paul, when founding the Order of the Daughters of Charity...
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Joint Post - No Assurance from Capita
Tory Leader Richard Cornelius, rumoured this week to be stepping down, signed the two massive contracts with Capita on the basis that it would provide 'better services, for less money'. It hasn't. As...
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There's a rat in the library, what am I gonna do? Barnet Tories forced to...
There was a meeting, on Tuesday night, at Hendon Town Hall, of the committee that now deals with what is left of Barnet's library service. I can't remember the name, without looking it up: hang on. Ah....
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Barnet As It Never Was: another week in Broken Barnet
Barnet as it never was ...Last year, immediately after they had been safely restored to power, the Barnet Tory administration admitted that the borough's finances were in a state of crisis. Not only...
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New Conversations: a visit from Arlene, as the Tory right takes control of...
Tory Councillor Jennifer Grocock and the DUP's Arlene Foster at Margaret Thatcher House, the Finchley Tories office, in Ballards LaneIt was Mr Reasonable who spotted it, hidden away in the agenda for...
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Lord Pickles: "Public participation is an important part of council scrutiny"...
As you may know, at a recent meeting of the Constitution committee, Barnet Tories, despite all reasoned argument to the contrary, decided to approve a motion that would effectively end all challenge of...
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