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Boris fritters another £40,000 away

July 10th, 2008 7 Comments

The Tory Troll explains how our ‘Value for Money’ Mayor has taken another great decision: to spend £40,000 on a new London.gov.uk web site, to replace the perfectly functional and usable existing web site.
Accessible and standards-based web design is something of a specialist subject for me so I’ll be interested to see what London gets [...]

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Anti-racism rises again – a bit

July 1st, 2008 9 Comments

The Tory Troll reports that the latest batch of publicity for the approaching Rise festival now features a quote from Boris claiming it “is still an anti-racist event”. It seems between the various people making decisions for him, they can’t quite agree on the nuances of their message here.
The latest news here is that apparently [...]

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