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Category Archives: Citizenship
Can you be sued for gritting pavements if someone hurts themselves? Ask the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers
So you decide to do the community-spirited thing and help to clear ice and snow from your public street. Then someone slips over and hurts themselves. Can you be sued?
Why I’m throwing down the gauntlet to our councils over RSS feeds
You’re free to republish this article under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 UK licence with credit and a link to Adrian Short / Mash the State Today I connected 66 councils to their citizens by making it easy to subscribe … Continue reading
Posted in Citizenship, Web design
Tagged campaigns, councils, e-government, government, Mash the State, rss, Sutton Council, Sutton Council website
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Did police kill G20 protester in London? (Updated: not looking good)
Article title preserved for posterity but it’s clear now that Ian Tomlinson was not a protester and was just walking home from work. Please see the updates in the comments at the bottom of this post. Unnamed: The protester who … Continue reading
Posted in Citizenship, Politics
Tagged Bank of England, City of London, G20, G20 protests, london, police, policing, protesters
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The real problem with “Your High”
Wallington MP Tom Brake wants to outlaw “head shops”. What’s he been smoking? Continue reading
Posted in Citizenship, Sutton
Tagged cannabis, head shops, Tom Brake, Wallington, Your High
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Sutton’s (oxy)moronic “voluntary smoking ban”
Sutton Council have banned smoking in children’s playgrounds. Or have they? Continue reading
Positive citizens or trainee consumers?
Sutton youths are being given discount cards for high street shops if they stay out of trouble. What does this really teach them? Continue reading
Posted in Citizenship, Sutton
Tagged crime, policing, Positive Citizen, Sutton, youth
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