Dad, husband, woodworker. Ex-agency founder, now helping people out with coaching, consultancy and dev @pentri. lesteph on Bluesky now; X is dormant.
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This is surely the wrong match metaphor for these political times: the Tories are clearly tired, smarmy Italy being shown the door by the Swiss
Blog: on Monkey Tennis syndrome, or how to handle meetings and pitches that start to unravel while you're in them:
stephgray.com/2024/06/monkey…
ALT Alan Partridge - Monkey Tennis
As an aging e-gov nerd, I can’t help but think of accessible, personalised local authority web sites
I can only apologise for my neighbours - one of whom took an angle grinder to this ULEZ camera round the corner last week, the absolute cockwomble
Yard long baguettes? File that under shrinkflation… (wish I’d lived in the era of impressive baguettes pictured!)
Didn’t quite manage to organise the community repair event I was hoping to for #RepairDay but did have an enjoyable afternoon working on loose tenon repairs to an old bench which has been broken for ~40 years #RepairForEveryone
Just updated my little postcode to constituency & MP data tool with the latest MP data from Parliament: postbureaucrat.com/constitue…
Well, we're a long way from 'vote blue to go green' I guess.
youtu.be/CyKUVWLeMaA?si=QtMW…
We will never impose unnecessary and heavy-handed measures on you, the British people.
We will still meet our international commitments and hit Net Zero by 2050.
ALT Decorative graphic saying: We’re stopping heavy-handed measures: X Taxes on eating meat. X New taxes to discourage flying. X Sorting your rubbish into seven different bins. X Compulsory car sharing. X Expensive insulation upgrades. A new approach to reach Net Zero.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
None of those listed policies are included in the governments own Net-Zero Strategy.
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/upl…