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Levelling up LEOs

This is less of a blogpost and more of a ‘stub‘ to come back to later of some ideas that are swimming around in my head and as such it lacks a certain…coherence! There has been a lot of talk about the Government ‘levelling up’ agenda in recent months and while I am not exactly…
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S01E12: Retire

Less retire – more pause. I’m taking next week off – mainly to concentrate a bit more on my rehab to be honest – and this week I have handed over almost all my responsibilities for the Welsh Government work to Naomi (just one workshop to facilitate after my break) and given I don’t know…
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S01E11: Relive

So. One year later. Huh. What can I say that hasn’t already been said? Nothing much I suspect but it has been interesting reading back on some of the stuff I wrote this time last year. I’d already committed to a month of ‘daynotes’ for March 2020 – they were supposed to cover SDinGov and…
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[book report] True Believer – the rise and fall of Stan Lee
![[book report] True Believer – the rise and fall of Stan Lee](https://digitalbydefault.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/stanlee_aberiesman-1024x683-1.jpg?w=1024)
hatchet job (plural hatchet jobs) (idiomatic) A journalistic or other treatment which portrays its subject in a very unfavorable manner; a work of criticism which aims to destroy a reputation. Synonyms: slam piece, hit piece, traducement, calumny, calumniation, obloquy, defamation. This book by journalist Abraham Riesman is the very definition of a hatchet job. Relentless in its…
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S01E10: React
Not really feeling the work talk this week. The week started with the tsunami of racist reactions to the Meghan/Harry interview with Oprah and then the news of what had happened to Sarah Everard hit and was followed by a flood of first person accounts from women about the harassment and abuse they have endured.…