COUNCILLOR ANDREW BURNS' REALLY BAD BLOG

(ex) CITY OF EDINBURGH COUNCILLOR, ANDREW BURNS; FOUNTAINBRIDGE/CRAIGLOCKHART WARD 'EDINBURGH LABOUR GROUP' LEADER; & 'THE CITY OF EDINBURGH COUNCIL' LEADER.

--- just very brief comments (both work & personal), as often as possible, that's all :-)

Thursday, January 31, 2008

Architectural theft?

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Several people (who really should have better things to do!) have e-mailed me to insist that the chap who designed that Sugar Cube on Grand...
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Forum on Children and Families Estate

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Second meeting of the 'Forum on Children and Families Estate Evaluation' earlier this afternoon - variety of 'stakeholders'...
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Population Bombs

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George Monbiot has redeemed himself ;-) ... I had a bit of a whinge, a few months ago , about his apparent lack of willingness to tackle the...

Modernist Sugar Cube?

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As regular readers will know, I'm not at all a major fan of TV and most of my 'news and information' comes directly from Radio, ...
Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Weekly Surgery and healthy eating

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Regular weekly surgery in Fountainbridge Library this evening ... here's one of my periodic reminders of when they all are: Andrew holds...

Craiglockhart Community Council and London Calling

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Craiglockhart Community Council meeting last night - agenda here - and main topic of discussion was most definitely the glacial pace of p...
Tuesday, January 29, 2008

It's all a conspiracy?

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The blogosphere has been full of how dreadfully 'left-of-centre' the BBC is over the last couple of weeks ... primarily driven by t...
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And the winner is ...

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I see that John Loughton won Big Brother last night - well done that man! ... as I mentioned earlier ; couldn't watch the programme du...

Mid-life Crisis!

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The observant amongst you will have spotted that I turned 44 last month ... ... and I thought all my troubles were over, given I wasn't...
Monday, January 28, 2008

Council Budget explained - really?

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They're at it again ... lying about the current state-of-play concerning 2008/09 Council Tax proposals! Have a look here ... and scrol...
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Sunday, January 27, 2008

Contact is made?

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Spent all day today over in sunny Glasgow ... ... unfortunately I was stuck in a darkened room, in front of a computer screen, being trained...
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Friday, January 25, 2008

No more haggis and whisky

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Very successful Burns Supper event this evening ... ticket-sales ended up looking fine and the room at Pollock Halls was practically full ;...
Thursday, January 24, 2008

Democracy isn't deskbound

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New UK-wide campaign launched this afternoon, on the back of the publication of the Ministry of Justice's deskbound review of electora...

Oh dear, oh dear ...

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No, not Peter Hain's resignation , but the Government's Review of UK Voting Systems announced earlier this afternoon ... Statement ...
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Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Talk about hypocrisy

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On a much, much more serious Scottish budget issue - just what the hell are the Scottish Green Party MSPs playing at? I'm fairly certai...
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MSP Campbell's soup spill

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You really couldn't make this up ... it could only happen in the Scottish Parliament ;-) I don't know the MSP concerned, and certa...
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The wonders of consultation ...

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I think (?) I've solved the dark mystery of the CLD Review Consultation Paper that I was bemoaning easy sight of yesterday ... You can ...
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Tuesday, January 22, 2008

Merchiston Community Council

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Merchiston Community Council this evening ... usual Community Council business was preceded by a talk entitled ‘"Schools in our Area ...
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