The Very Model of Bureaucratic Inefficiency
Here is the textbook model of bureaucratic inefficiency and council sluggishness that deserves a satirical Gilbert and Sullivan song of its own: Collingwood is conducting a “speed limit survey” through…
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Are Safer Schools Possible When it’s Not in the Rules?
I’ve been retired a year. Sometimes it feels like the last three decades were just a fever dream and I’ve always been a student, particularly since I’m back at the…
On Argumentation and Straddling the Middle
At the school board meeting Monday night (video here, starting at 1:23:50 for over an hour), an open letter the board recently sent out was discussed. I said nothing because…
Kafkaesque?
It might be called Kafkaesque, that this talk focuses on bureaucracy and its tyrranical absurdities, while Kafka’s most important contribution was, not simply to highlight the tyrrany of bureaucracy, but…
Bursting bureaucratic bullshit bubbles #nlpoli
The daily average for new CVD cases has been declining since late March. In one of the provinces hardest hit by COVID-19, Ontarians got a roadmapon Monday on how the…
Madigan to chair do-nothing committee
A story in last week’s Connection has the headline, “Madigan named chair of Collingwood development, operations committee.” Councillor Madigan has the dubious honour of chairing a standing committee that does…
His best shot #nlpoli
The most important measurement you need to take of Dwight Ball’s great vision for the provincial government is that this is his one, best shot. That shot consists of a…
Pricey Passports R Us……..
Canadian ePassports arrive July 1 New ePassports feature electronic chips, other security features CBC News Posted: Jun 28, 2013 2:55 PM ET Not only are the passports getting even more…
Is The SWP A Dead Duck: Part 2
It isn’t only in the nations, like the former USSR, that bureaucracy can use its control of wealth and power to defeat grassroots challengers. What happened with the rise of…
Is The SWP A Dead Duck: Part 2
It isn’t only in the nations, like the former USSR, that bureaucracy can use its control of wealth and power to defeat grassroots challengers. What happened with the rise of…
Is The SWP A Dead Duck: Part 2
It isn’t only in the nations, like the former USSR, that bureaucracy can use its control of wealth and power to defeat grassroots challengers. What happened with the rise of…
Is The SWP A Dead Duck: Part 2
It isn’t only in the nations, like the former USSR, that bureaucracy can use its control of wealth and power to defeat grassroots challengers. What happened with the rise of…
SWP Bureaucracy & The IST: Part 2
The debate with the US ISO remains a source of much controversy, having ended with the biggest split from the Tendency to date. This makes it worth exploration and, I…
SWP Bureaucracy & The IST: Part 2
The debate with the US ISO remains a source of much controversy, having ended with the biggest split from the Tendency to date. This makes it worth exploration and, I…
SWP Bureaucracy & The IST: Part 2
The debate with the US ISO remains a source of much controversy, having ended with the biggest split from the Tendency to date. This makes it worth exploration and, I…
SWP Bureaucracy & The IST: Part 1
The tradition in the IST is to not intervene in the controversies and debates of other organizations. This was explained to me as a reaction against the practice amongst the…
SWP Bureaucracy & The IST: Part 1
The tradition in the IST is to not intervene in the controversies and debates of other organizations. This was explained to me as a reaction against the practice amongst the…
SWP Bureaucracy & The IST: Part 1
The tradition in the IST is to not intervene in the controversies and debates of other organizations. This was explained to me as a reaction against the practice amongst the…
The SWP & Revolutionary Bureaucracy or No One Here Gets Out Alive
In the late 1970s and early 1980s the international working class suffered a series of decisive defeats. This put to a halt and set in reverse the post-war tendency for…
The SWP & Revolutionary Bureaucracy or No One Here Gets Out Alive
In the late 1970s and early 1980s the international working class suffered a series of decisive defeats. This put to a halt and set in reverse the post-war tendency for…