Duncan O'Leary
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- Seriously Small Sometimes you wonder about the future of politics. And then you have your faith restored. Two policies from the Monster Raving Loony Party: - Children to be encouraged to sit closer together in school - to reduce class sizes. - Government to issue a 99p coin - to save on change.Surely both candidates for the Global Ideas Bank... from : duncanoleary 18th April 2005
- They want to be elected MPs eh. You might have noticed that they work for you...well it also turns out that they want to be elected. Pretty simple idea, but i like it.[via the Guardian Election Blog] from : duncanoleary 21st April 2005
- Hot air? It didn’t make the front pages (as far as I know) but I think David Miliband’s speech yesterday floating the idea of carbon rationing for individuals is going to be an interesting one to watch... from : duncanoleary 20th July 2006
- Where to, guv? Writing in the Guardian today Polly Toynbee argues that “If John Major was in office but not in power, Tony Blair is still in power but no one knows what for.” I’m not so sure. from : duncanoleary 21st July 2006
- Fit for purpose Oh dear. Tony Blair has made a speech saying that people need to adapt their lifestyles if they’re going to be healthy. And apparently he stole the ‘idea’ from David Cameron. from : duncanoleary 26th July 2006
- The last word So Tom Bentley finished as Demos Director on Friday – completing seven years at the helm. He’s off to Australia to be an adviser to the premier of Victoria. Presumably before his (second) leaving party on Friday he wrote some reflections on British politics over the last ten years for the Sunday Times. The article draws on his experience of being Director of Demos and as an advisor to David Blunkett prior to that. Have a read… from : duncanoleary 31st July 2006
- Built to last - but how do you build it? I've been having a read of the Conservatives revised Built to Last document, that was released today. I think it is quite a good illustration of both the strengths and shortcomings of the Cameron project to date. from : duncanoleary 16th August 2006
- We don't need no thought control... Iain Dale writes an interesting post on his blog to today, criticising Alan Johnson and David Miliband’s decision to send a DVD of Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth to every secondary school in the country. He argues: from : duncanoleary 2nd February 2007
- American dream? So Barack Obama is standing for President. If you're wondering what all the fuss is about (as Tim Hames is) and a have a spare fifteen minutes, this is the speech that announced his arrival on the national stage in the US. Worth a watch, if you're into that kind of thing. from : duncanoleary 12th February 2007
- The Politics of Public Behaviour Demos published a new pamphlet yesterday: The Politics of Public Behaviour. It looks at the public consequences of private decisions. The aim was to ask where and when government should involve itself in people’s personal decision-making, from parenting to carbon emissions, diet, exercise, pensions savings, gambling and organ donorship. It seems on all this issues and more the public/private boundary is becoming blurred. from : duncanoleary 9th May 2008