I’ve been holding off on publishing my views on the whole MP expenses debacle until I could get my sticky-mitts on the data, and it makes very interesting reading. For those of you who’d like to delve in yourselves, you can download this Open Office spreadsheet with all the data MPs Expenses ’07-’08 (if you [...]

As many of you will know – the brilliant people who worked tirelessly at Bletchley Park during the Second World War played a huge part in the Allied victory. Now the historic buildings are in serious decline and in desperate need of restoration and protection. What stuns and saddens me is the number of architectural [...]

Truly scary stuff from Cat & Girl

The Chancellor’s pre-budget report includes an increase in arts funding (in line with inflation), which comes as a relief for organisations which had been prepared for a 5% cut in budget for the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS). Many museums, galleries and other organisations have suffered lately, due to huge amounts of Lottery [...]

CCTV cameras placed to monitor the locality around the Welsh Assembly buildings in Cardiff Bay were turned to point at private homes. Five employees of the security team have received “disciplinary penalties” including formal warnings and “exclusion from promotion opportunities” according to an assembly spokesperson (via the BBC). It worries me when I find myself [...]