Monthly Archives: September 2011
Everyone starts somewhere
After Fiona Stewart’s excellent post about work experience at the 2011 Green Man Festival, Jon gives us a firsthand account of working his first music festival.
I arrived at Green Man…
Hawaiian shirt Fridays aren’t always the answer
Stop Managing Your People – Act on the System Instead!
If you were told that the people who work for you have little control over their performance, would you believe it?
From the work of Deming, the Quality Guru so…
Medicines and Older People
£150m is spent annually on Community Pharmacy in Wales. The return of unwanted medicines to pharmacies confirms that large amounts of medicines are never taken. We also know that medicine maladministration is also a serious and potentially…
Oil tips campaign aims to help tackle fuel poverty
Remember last winter? The snow, the wind, the cold, cold nights. For many people who use oil to heat their homes last winter was particularly bitter. Suppliers admit that many households planning to fill…
Cardiff’s Con Trick No. 2
The transformation of Cardiff from industrial town to ‘vibrant European city’ is, as I described last week, a remarkable achievement. But this was only part of the story. For there is one crucial ways in which Cardiff has NOT…
New Sherriffs in town
There can be little doubt that this is a radical Government.
And one of its most radical innovations is almost upon us, and yet there has been very little debate inWalesabout how it is going to work in practice.
In…
The Cardiff Con-Trick
Wales is fast becoming two nations – not urban and rural, not Welsh- and English-speaking, but Cardiff and the rest. Wales’s other towns and cities, resorts and villages show nothing like the signs of the ‘good life’…
Working for the Green Man
Fiona Stewart is Managing Director, Organiser, Designer and Promoter of the Green Man Festival Wales. Here she describes how the festival is engaging with the local community and helping to develop skills through experience.
Jon Howells, 18, came from…
Lessons from Sweeden and Canada
The effect of spending cuts on older people…
Efficiency savings. Austerity measures. Cuts. Call them what you will, the economic changes being made by the Westminster Government are bound to have an impact…
New term, old issues
As children in Wales go back to school (or rather, don’t go back because of INSET days), the ‘education debate’ (2011 version) is, unusually, rumbling on. Pundits and experts galore have had a heyday putting the education system to…
