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Fraud and Error … No Need for Austerity then …

7th September 201810th November 2019 Mac Logan 5 Comments AFI, Annual Fraud Indicator, austerity, benefits, benefits fraud, Cabinet Office, crime, DWP, Experian, fraud, fraud and error, greedy bastards, HMRC, Hostile Environment, Hostile environment but not for fraud, Minister for Constitution, MOD, news, NHS funding, UK Government Ambition

… an attempt to spin-away major UK government failures to investigate public sector fraud and bring criminals to justice

Angels Share Series crime and corruption political shenanigans write•read•ideas

Who Harvests the Magic Money Tree?

31st January 201822nd February 2019 Mac Logan 2 Comments #Brexit, Angels Cut, angels share series, austerity, Big Ben, capita, carillion, City, crime, Errol Flynn, Establishment criminality, food banks, get away with it, greed, KPMG, Mac Logan, news, NHS IT, politicians, politics, pollution kills, procurement, Public Accounts Committee, PWC, theiving, thriller, Treasury, unaccountable government

We’re broke, the system’s broke and our leaders have no understanding or competence in fixing things.

Life political shenanigans

Public Sector Myths and Reality (video)

14th July 201718th February 2019 Mac Logan 1 Comment angels share series, CCT, Civil Service, compulsory competitive tendering, Daily Telegraph, equal misery, fact facing, goals, government, incompetent, Leadersip, Local Authority, management, misery, news, OD, organisation, Organisation Development, political spin, politicians, private sector, procurement, public sector, The Sun, work

… there is huge potential in our public sector people. There is no justification for devaluing a national asset – our human capital.

political shenanigans

9 Reasons for an Establishment Squeaky-Bum – Can UK Reach Escape (the past) Velocity? VIDEOS

16th June 201718th February 2019 Mac Logan 5 Comments #Brexit, BBC News, Boris, Change, change the UK, culture, Dalai Lama, dialogue, fraud and error, general election, greed, greedy, Grenfell Tower, HS2, inequlity, Jeremy Corbyn, Kensington and Chelsea, Labour, lies, mendacity, mindset, news, NHS, pollution, poor, prejudice, relationships, respect, rocket to the moon, slogan, soundbite, strong and stable, Theresa May, Tory, Trident, young people, young voters

The puppeteers (press, politicians, ideologues) pull our strings, fuel our rage, invite blame and ill-considered aggression against innocents and the weak. Who are these manipulators? Must they go unchallenged?

crime and corruption political shenanigans

Strut your Strong and Stable Stuff …(videos)

20th May 201718th February 2019 Mac Logan 0 Comments #Brexit, #election, #GE2017, #strongandstable, abuse of power, autocracy, BBC, Conservative, democracy, ECJ, EU, Europe, Fawlty Towers, Forbes, news, NHS, politics, Theresa May, Tory

How respectful is a party-line based on a soundbite?
How adequate a claimed mandate based on an unexplained word … Brexit?

poetry

Me and Pauline McGee … you’re invited, get yer glad rags on

2nd November 2016 Mac Logan 3 Comments #Fife, #fusethemuse, #whisky, Art, Art Village, author, creative, crossing borders, exhibition, exhibitionist, fun, I ask myself, Mac Logan, Mac Logan poetry, news, painter, paintings, Pauline McGee, poems, poetic, publish, Shawlands

I’ve just become an exhibitionist …

write•read•ideas

It’s a Big One

31st March 2013 Mac Logan 0 Comments author, book marketing, book promotion, London Book Fair, news, publisher, reader, write, writer

The London Book Fair that is … London loves the kilt. As I bussed and walked down to Earls Court

Sourdough a go-go? Easy Imagine a calm Scottish seascape, Grasshopper, and lose your anxiety, it’s sour dough, a go-go, time … This is a quick guide for my pal Bob to help him make a sourdough loaf using a proven method. the aim This approach is designed to save time. Key pointers and stages are covered in the headings […]