Monthly archives: October 2005

Tom Steinberg popped into Demos last night and was chatting about how HearFromYourMP is growing surely but steadily without any publicity. The idea is that when 50 people sign up for a particular constiuency, a message will be sent to the MP asking if they want to use the email list that’s been generated for […]

I spent a wonderful evening yesterday chatting about a new book that my former colleagues at Forum for the Future have put together called About Time. Loads of interesting links to the project I’m working on next year in London in partnership with the Long Now Foundation (who, incidentally, have just unveiled the next version […]

I spent my Sunday at the UK’s fist Open Budget in Harrow in north west London seeing how things worked. Polly Billington of the BBC’s Today programme was there too and put together this really nice package about what happened. I wish Matthew Parris (who speaks in the discussion after the package) had come along. […]

BedZED is just over three years old now. Clematis, rose and golden hop plants are beginning to hide some of the metal and brick and making the place look a bit more lived in. It’s aging well I think and I still get a kick out of the architecture — especially on perfect blue-skied days like today. […]

One of the more surreal moments of Labour Party conference last week was emerging from security into the area in front of the Brighton Centre to see three people going round in circles on Segways. For those of you not familiar with ‘ginger’, it’s a two wheel gyroscope enabled human transporter. I once had a […]