Picture credit: Dick Thomas Johnson Chris Game A sentence or so of explanation. This blog was going to be an evaluation of the Government’s stuttering, end-of-year progress on levelling up. However, I’d barely started it when I realised that Japan’s Coming of Age Day – Monday 9th to be precise – had crept up on … Continue reading Japan’s Coming of Age Day
Chris Game “ID cards for polls are nothing more than suppression of voters” – D Butler. I’d forgotten precisely when and where I first read this pronouncement – May 2021 in The Times, as it turned out – shortly after the Government’s Elections Bill, now Act, was published. But I certainly remembered it. Partly the … Continue reading Voter ID – in theory, practice and mirrors
Chris Game Reader alert! This blog’s sole excuse is its loose topicality. Its connection with local government, certainly, is tenuous in the extreme, and needs rationalising right away. My chief role in INLOGOV, throughout most of my time as a full-time employee, was as Convenor of its undergraduate degree, latterly entitled the BSc in Public … Continue reading “The Greatest Political Party on Earth” – Prime Ministerial hyperbole
Jason Lowther & Chris Game ‘Code Red’, for anyone even approaching the generation of this blog’s more senescent author, has to cue the memorable final Tom Cruise/Jack Nicholson courtroom scene in Aaron Sorkin’s film, A Few Good Men. Indeed, said author has actually adapted and used it previously in these very columns: Lieut. Kaffee (Cruise): … Continue reading Voter ID gets Code Red
Chris Game A few months ago, in blogging about ‘Women in West Midlands Governance’, I noted that in 1975 – not special, simply the year that had prompted the blog – 21 or 17% of Birmingham City Councillors had been women. They included “Theresa Stewart … a future Leader of the Council, Birmingham Lord Mayor, … Continue reading Theresa Stewart: Leader, Lord Mayor, Councillor and Mother
Chris Game Back in early February, I wrote a blog dissecting one of two big and controversial Government Bills involved in what I slightly hyperbolically termed the “historic Monday evening of the Great Parliamentary Resistance” – Monday, 17th January, when the Elections Bill received its Third Commons Reading, while across the way the Lords were … Continue reading ‘The Great Parliamentary Resistance’ – some of the outcomes
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