The Ministry for the Future

Article 14 of the Paris Agreement says there shall be a periodic global stocktake. Article 16 4 says regular conferences shall make the decisions necessary to promote the Agreement's effective implementation, by establishing such subsidiary bodies as are deemed necessary for the implementation of the agreement. Article 18 Allows a permanent subsidiary body with permanent …

Enabling A Disabled Persons Mobility Service ​

 ​​​ A Disabled Persons’ Mobility Service is a direct riff on an older idea, the Disabled Persons Housing Service, with another dimension, of person- centred life planning and mapping of pathways. The social model of disability is not yet embedded in everything we do. Society is still extremely discriminatory and worse, although this has continually been …

Local Authority Councillors and LTN 120 – a summary of your responsibilities

All Local Authority Councillors have formal duties of care that their authorities are acting lawfully. The following are some suggested matters they should be considering. Are there detailed forensic digital audits and mapping available? Archaeological and related techniques are readily available to do this, Are they open source? Has the authority tested all its audit …

Logistics Audits

Newton. Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. Spinoza. Everything is connected Unknown. A chain is only as good as its weakest link. Businesses bring together people and stuff and do something to it. We have accountants and auditors to test if companies are using money effectively. Why do we not audit the processes …

The Art and Science of Excerpting

I am on a journey. I am still in the foothills and probably have not yet built a base camp. Am I climbing a mountain though? I have collected bits and pieces but haven’t yet built anything with them. What is that word? Once upon a time Plato discussed what is writing. We have spent …

The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Regulations

As you do, I have been reading about filing! It seems it has been completely misunderstood! It is not meant to just keep things in ordered storage. It should be fine dining for the mind, putting things together so they taste and smell and look delicious and fill the stomach of your mind. Not treating …

Let’s reinvent education

This is a huge subject and my thinking is incomplete and unfinished 😉 I hope the following gives a taste of what I am muttering about! The following are a few of my scattered thoughts from a journey I have been on! The key is around Spinoza - everything is connected.  If anyone wants some …

Tangled bank

"It is interesting to contemplate a tangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth, and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms, so different from each other, and dependent upon each other in so complex …

Once upon a time,

the day after seeing Sleeping Beauty, (oh yes I did) I went to the Da Vinci exhibition in Trafalgar Square. It was quite easy to read the mirror writing, and with practice, I would be fluent. I was surprised that his mirror writing was alleged to be private. I fundamentally disagree. It was efficient and …

Some mystery shopping by rail

The following are my notes of a day I spent mystery shopping on the railways I might not have been sold the cheapest available ticket. This is a can opener point that raises audit questions about staff training and practices and their computer systems. The platform is very cold. Helpful staff, a TU member, ordered assistance …