Archive for chris white

More steps in the localism shuffle

4 January 2011 , , ,
Earlier today both Chris White and Nick Barlow pointed out how the government’s “localism agenda” (formerly known as the man in Whitehall doesn’t know best) has taken two steps back this week. But for the two steps back, there are also two steps forward: with councils being given more discretion to decide what parking charges [...]

Welcome to the new bloggers…

30 October 2009 , , , , , , ,
Six blogs have recently joined Ryan’s Liberal Democrat Blogs aggregator: Chris White – good to see another councillor using ALDC’s excellent MyCouncillor system. Giles Wilkes – a think tank blogger spawns his own blog, which is an interesting take on the question of why there are so few successful think tank blogs. His explanation? “‘Institutional’ blogs look [...]