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• Public services want to be more accountable. Why dont banks? | Andrew Haldenby

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 983
  Public services want to be more accountable. Why dont banks? Something I didnt expect happened at the Reform conference on the agenda of the new government on Tuesday. Remarkably, it was the speakers on government who argued passionately for reducing privilege, enfranchising individuals and decentralising power. ...
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• Jószef Attila Művelődési Központ

  
  Budapest daily photo — Authority: 127
  This is a Művelődési Központ (means something like cultural centre) named after my favorite poet Attila József.  Its located in Angyalföld (XIIIth district of Budapest) which is traditionally an area of the labour class. Tweet This Post
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• Living in China: Plenty of GPS potties, to keep Shanghai’s World Expo site clean

  
  { design@tive } information design — Authority: 127
  Not being able to find a clean toilet and seeing litter everywhere can spoil the world’s most popular tourist spots: Next year’s Shanghai World Expo will feature more than 200 of the world’s most innovative pavilions filled with the most advanced technology and inspiring exhibits about modern urban life. But ...
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• John Lewis policies are in store | Adam Schoenborn

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 157
  Labour have joined the Tories in advocating a partnership model for public services. This kind of mutualisation is long overdue When our office learned of shadow health secretary Andrew Lansleys largely overlooked announcement at the NHS employers conference in Birmingham last week, a big cheer went up. According ...
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• Forward to the Workers Syndicalist State

  
  The Plashing Vole: parataxis — Authority: 142
  The Tories have been muttering about instituting Easyjet-style local service provision (mm, what a vote-winner) and the Labour Party have had to find a localised model of service provision to avoid looking like centralist Soviets (not that I mind centralisation much - especially as I find myself living in an evil ...
  2 days ago

• Look out, Labour is about to nick one of Daves big ideas

  
  News Benedict Brogan — Authority: 132
  The Institute for Government gave Liam Byrne a platform last night to answer David Cameron’s meaty speech on poverty. Sir Michael Bichard went to great lengths to make the Chief Secretary welcome, including finding a Labour councillor from Kensington and Chelsea to put Mr Byrne on the spot. The Chief Sec’s thesis ...
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• Les seringues usagées, les humains jétés

  
  Spacing Montreal — Authority: 503
  « Oh mama, I didn’t know life was this hard Oh mama, my innocence has been tarred » - Paula Cole L’utilisation de drogues injectables : je connaissais la théorie, mais je ne connaissais pas la pratique. Jusqu’à ce que j’habite à Vancouver. Je travaillais à deux pas du coin Hastings et Main ; un ...
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• Its all the fault of teachers, nurses and street cleaners

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 983
  It was astonishing intellectual bravado – and utterly duplicitous. David Cameron has taken 15 years of thinking on the left – Naomi Klein, Zygmunt Bauman, Richard Layard, Richard Sennett among others – and put the whole back catalogue on its head. The critique of our present atomised, individualistic, ...
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• Report Says 10 States Heading Towards Budget Disasters

  
  Boom2Bust.com — Authority: 567
  As an Illinois resident, I could not have been more thrilled to hear about a new study that identifies my state, along with nine others, as one that is hurtling towards fiscal disaster. From the Associated Press’ Judy Lin this afternoon: A study released Wednesday warns that nine states are barreling toward an ...
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• Labours plan for John Lewis public services

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 983
  Partnership model would let staff and users control schools and hospitals Hospitals and schools would be transformed into John Lewis-style partnerships under radical plans that could form a central plank of Labours general election manifesto. Public sector bodies, which would also include leisure centres, housing ...
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• The public must help restore society | Dale Bassett

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 157
  British citizens have become passive bystanders. They must be given more information and take more responsibility The twin fiscal and democratic deficits facing the UK must be urgently addressed if we are to return to a path of growth – but government cannot succeed alone. Citizens must step up to the plate. ...
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• David Camerons Hugo Young lecture: Follow the money

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 983
  David Cameron attempted a startling paradox at the start of his Hugo Young lecture yesterday evening: "The recent growth of the state has promoted not social solidarity, but selfishness and individualism." His entire argument depends on the validity of that remarkable claim. It turns conventional progressive ...
  3 days ago

• Another example of co-located public facilities in Arlington County

  
  Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space — Authority: 498
  Flickr image from Arlington Public Library Arlington just had the dedication for a new combined library-elementary school. See " Official Launching of Dual Building " from the Connection Newspapers . I believe that co-location makes a lot of sense, maximizing the use and utility of public assets. Its ...
  3 days ago

• Ministerial eGovernment Conference

  
  Wir sprechen Online. — Authority: 142
  Only a few days left until the 5th Ministerial eGovernment Conference : Endorse the Open Declaration ; http://j.mp/EPS-OD
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• We have to change the way we change | Zenna Atkins

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 157
  Grand structural solutions need to stop being the one-size-fits-all reaction in the public sector – lets change little, and often We go wrong with change because we make it a big occasion, not an everyday event. Change is every day, by everybody, always. Its not a big party where you rock up once every couple of ...
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• Don’t cut public services, we need them more than ever

  
  ToUChstone blog: A public policy blog from the TUC — Authority: 524
  We are starting to hear reports of ‘green shoots’ in the economy: the markets are up; banks are back to record profits; and bonuses are back in the financial sector. Some headlines have even triumphantly proclaimed that the recession is nearly over. But the reality is that the recession is far from over. It is not ...
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• #7: Speaking up for Public Services – The vital role of the public sector in and beyond the recession

  
  ToUChstone blog: A public policy blog from the TUC — Authority: 524
  Pamphlet #7: Speaking up for Public Services Britain’s public services are a vital bedrock in sustaining local economies and communities both in good times and now, during the worst economic recession in living memory. They ensure essential investment in infrastructure and support for business and can mitigate ...
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• The human factor

  
  Putting people first — Authority: 431
  NESTA, the UK’s National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts, has published a 45-page discussion paper on how transforming healthcare to involve the public, i.e. the creation of people-powered public services, can save money and save lives. The National Health Service (NHS) needs to save £15 billion to ...
  4 days ago

• (Not) Understanding Government

  
  Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space — Authority: 498
  1. To reiterate from yesterday, the (primary) reason that Rollin Stanley is so disconcerting is that he is painfully direct. 2. todays Post has a piece about how WMATA, the DC transit organization, is "stonewalling" safety checks by the advisory safety organization that seemingly provides oversight. See " Metro ...
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• Systems administrators: do we really need them?

  
  Living with rats — Authority: 487
  Some people adore computers and everything to do with them. I love them when they make my life easier. So while I admire the idea of open-source software, you wont find me developing any. When someone else finds a solution thats clean, simple and works, though, it seems foolish not to take advantage. So I recently ...
  5 days ago

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