Rupert's Read

I'm co-hosting this event: do come and join us! This is an important film.

Together, let's stop the craziness that would be the return of weekly landfill-rubbish collections: http://www.leftfootforward.org/2011/09/pickles%E2%80%99s-bribe-to-councils-is-a-white-elephant/

The Tory blogsite ConservativeHome recently did some research on the media impact of the 2010 intake of MPs. Not surprisingly, Caroline comes first by a long way, with 387 media mentions since election. :-) Why is this? It's because she's the best politician in Britain; but, more than that, it is because there is a gradually increasing recognition that our one MP is actually the thin end of a very large Green wedge. The arrival of the Green Party in Parliament is more than the arrival of one MP; it is the beginning of a story that will grow and grow, like Labour did a century ago. The full list is here: http://t.co/J9kBrVOF For further info and analysis, see http://conservativehome.blogs.com/platform/2011/08/which-of-the-class-of-2015-are-making-an-impact-neildotobrien-has-the-answers.html

This is really quite appalling - when you juxtapose it alongside £15m already spent on the NDR... http://www.edp24.co.uk:80/news/politics/norfolk_s_rural_transport_cuts_revealed_1_1075245

On the celebrated Hikers, thankfully just freed from Iran. [I was among those who campaigned for their release, from the early stages, partly because I'm a friend of a friend of one of them.]  Shane's first public statement was "... We sincerely hope for freedom for other political prisoners and other unjustly imprisoned people in America and Iran."   BBC showed it, but ABC World News (unsurprisingly) cut it off, mid-sentence, right before that part.   See here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-15000563 http://abcnews.go.com/International/shane-bauer-joshua-fattal-american-hikers-freed-jail/story?id=14569697

http://www.totalpolitics.com/blog/258497/top-35-councillor-blogs-2011.thtml     I'm the 3rd top Councilor blog in the country from any Party (and the top Green); quite good going seeing as I stepped down in May! ;-)

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