I was out-and-about the other day and came across this advert:
My local authority want me to have my say in how they spend and collect their money. When I got home, I visited the www.barnet.gov.uk/budget site accordingly.
It was quite good. It went some way towards explaining how the council is funded and what it spends its money [...]
Posts under ‘Popular biases’
The Conservatives’ £million question
I’m not a natural Tory (if you’ve met me, you’ll know that I’m quite the opposite) but I can’t help but be impressed with their grasp of a few of the opportunities offered by new (potentially) democratic tools lately.
The first one is their use of Google Moderator in the Q&A that is embedded in their [...]
Active citizens, subjective well-being and Clarksonism
If you were to add one blog to your RSS reader at my request, please make it Chris Dillow’s Stumbling and Mumbling.
It’s about ‘Clarksonism.’ Why tedious self-pitying rich white blokes on the telly the question of ’subjective well-being’ is an important one to understand and why politicians often end up being forced to expend lots [...]
A blog about representative democracy, social media and a conversational politics. How will peer-to-peer communications change local democracy? How is representation changing? 
