Showing posts with label licensing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label licensing. Show all posts
Monday, 25 February 2019

Councils get in a hubble-bubble over hookahs

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The Local Government Association is in a funk about shisha bars : ‘Smoke-free laws are not offering strong enough punishments to deter ir...
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Sunday, 15 June 2014

Coding is either an everyday basic skill or an elite profession - it can't be both

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**** Let's start by mentioning that I can't write code - indeed I would know where to start. But I know it is important and that t...
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Sunday, 12 January 2014

How that teacher licensing might work out. A lesson from road transport...

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**** Dick Puddlecote usually writes about personal choice and the curse of nannying fussbucketry but every now and then he drops one in ab...
Saturday, 21 September 2013

How the police waste resources...and then blame the public

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**** Shock, horror, scandal! One drunk takes 17 - yes, folks one seven, seventeen - coppers to respond. Now leaving aside that I don't...
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Monday, 29 July 2013

An interesting point about the licensing of private landlords:

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**** An idea that is (sort of) national policy for the Labour Party. Here's Ben Reeve-Lewis (not exactly a natural pal of rapacious p...
Sunday, 13 January 2013

Brandon Lewis: celebrating the pub...but doing little to help

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Brandon Lewis MP and Minister writes in Conservative Home about the pub: My new year's resolution is to make the Great British pu...
Saturday, 6 October 2012

Nannying Fussbucket of the week: Yes it's Cllr Audrey Lewis & Westminster Council again!

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**** All the papers are running this story - the pub that has been told to serve drinks more slowly or lose its license. Hidden in the det...
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Wednesday, 25 July 2012

Nannying Fussbucket of the Week: Cllr Audrey Lewis

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**** The woman who pulled the plug on The Boss rather than give him ten more minutes speaks : I can understand the disappointment of fa...
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Monday, 16 July 2012

Come on you New Puritans, lighten up and let people live a little?

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The world now knows just how annoyingly officious British authorities have become : E-Street Band guitarist Steven Van Zandt als...
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Sunday, 15 July 2012

About that flying car...

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It was one of those things they promised us boys back in 1971 (or whenever it was when we commenced dreaming about the future) and we...
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Friday, 11 November 2011

Well he is a hairdresser...

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**** It's tough being a Tory sometimes. Especially when the party has people who want to license anything that moves. Here's David...
Tuesday, 16 August 2011

Why on earth has it got anything to do with the Council?

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**** I mean... The decision of a Leicestershire council to potentially limit house-to-house collections to campaigns which return at le...
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