96% of the publicity on the Derby Labour Party’s FB page is in direct support of Margaret Beckett. Of the 50 posts promoting the candidates, only 2 support Chris Williamson’s campaign. Why […]
Why is Derby Labour Party snubbing Chris Williamson?
A woman born in the 1950s? Hoping to retire at 60? You may be disappointed!
Attention! Women born in the 1950s! You should be concerned, and annoyed about your state pension (SP). If you thought you were getting it at 60, after a lifetime of hard work, […]
Fly infestation public meeting: no apologies just contempt
Article on the organisations involved Last night a packed Lonny Wilsoncroft Centre in the New Zealand area of Derby waited with some expectation of news about the future of the terrible flies problem […]
Mackworth Fly infestation : convenient confusion over who’s to blame?
A casual reading of this news story through the Derby Telegraph articles poses many questions about why there seems to be so many organisations involved, who own’s who, and why is there […]
How did Amanda Solloway’s husband lose so much money?
Amanda Solloway’s (MP – Derby North) husband was a joint owner/director of Compass Debt Counsellors (CDC), a successful multi-million pound company, which traded for 13 years. It finally succumbed to liquidation in […]
Junior Doctors Day of Action – Derby
The day finally arrived which the Junior Doctors never expected to happen, and which they didn’t want – a day of action to express their frustration at the Government’s proposals to accommodate […]
The decline of S&A Foods, and Perween Warsi’s loans
The fact that a company with one major customer is incredibly vulnerable is self-evident to any student of business – it doesn’t require much experience to realise that this is not a […]
Derby City Council has “lost the plot” on Voluntary Sector Grants
Over the last few years Derby City Council has lost all direction over the grant funding for the Voluntary, Community and Faith (VCF) Sector. It is successfully achieving only one objective, and […]
3rd Child Tax Credit : From a means test to a rape test.
A policy change that took a matter of seconds for George Osborne to announce in the post-election budget raises so many social questions, the most damning of which is “So a woman […]
JET ( Jobs, Education & Training) : Derby’s 3rd Tourist Attraction – Apparently?
If you missed the segment on East Midlands Today broadcast on 11 August 2015, here it is in full. The reporter proudly announces that it is “Derby’s 3rd Tourist attraction”. […]
Derby City Council’s “Big Conversation” is a charade and limp party politicking
Last week, Ranjit Banwait, the leader of Derby City Council re-invigorated the “Big Conversation”. Despite the recent consultation in 2014, the Council sees the need to ask the public again, essentially the […]
Charities – Volunteer more clarity on your finances please
Charities in the UK have a long tradition, based on selfless giving and care for the sick, needy, vulnerable and poor. The scope of what a charity can become involved in has […]
Why does the ‘Mayor of Derby’s Charity Fund’ donate so little to Derby ?
It is routine that at the end of the Mayor’s year in office, donations are made from a specific fund, to charitable causes. The total amount is modest, and in May 2015 […]
Derby City Council wantonly axe ‘Outstanding’ Castle Nursery
SUMMARY Derby City Council has decided to close the Castle Nursery in order to re-allocate £100,000 ( of a £195 million budget) and deprive the children of Derby of an Outstanding Nursery […]
JET (Jobs, Education, Training) : Derby Telegraph promoting PR – what happened to journalism?
The Derby Telegraph posted an article on 22 April seemingly as a response to my piece entitled “JET Derby (Jobs,Education, & Training) – Who really benefited from the £118,000 Derby City Council […]
JET Derby (Jobs,Education, & Training) – Who really benefited from the £118,000 Derby City Council contract – not the unemployed Roma!
In January 2014, JET (Jobs, Education and Training) in Normanton was awarded, by Derby City Council, an 11 month contract worth £118,000. This was to help East European migrants into work, “with […]
The ‘1 in 4’: Men! Why are we not angry about the shocking reality of violence towards women?
If 1 in 4 dog-owners abused their pets there would be an outcry, if 1 in 4 car owners had their cars indiscriminately damaged on a routine basis, there would be […]
Women’s Rights should concern us all – including Men!
Although in the UK we might consider that we have come a long way in the last 100 years on women’s rights, in reality, many of the underlying perceptions, behaviours and core […]
Alter-Rock (Derby) obscures the memory of the War Dead.
In the grounds of St James Church in the Arboretum district of Derby stands a memorial to those local men who died in World War 1. “This cross was erected in Proud […]
Christian attitude to War; Is it a matter of religion or just human behaviour?
This week, Dr Alan Billings presented an interesting thesis at Derby Cathedral on the changing attitude of Christianity towards war under the title, “The Dove, the Fig Leaf, and the Sword”. The […]
