Mark Haworth-Booth’s blog
Cllr Mark Haworth-Booth
20/01/2025 / 20/01/2025 by Mark Haworth-Booth
This week I’m writing about two of my meetings as a local councillor and also reflecting on the sentencing of the Just Stop Oil activist, Dr Patrick Hart, the memorial service of Dame Elizabeth Esteve-Coll and the 24th demonstration for Gaza in London. At Full Council on Wednesday there was a warm welcome to the […]
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13/01/2025 / 14/01/2025 by markhaworthbooth
Cookham-on-Thames Over the past week I was involved with the sudden crisis in local government inflicted on us by Labour ministers, while also spending time with the paintings of one of England’s most popular artists and with my comrades in the Palestine Solidarity Campaign. First, following on from Blog 2, Devolution (Devo) and Local Government […]
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08/01/2025 / 09/01/2025 by markhaworthbooth
How strange it was to find the Labour government giving the country three weeks to consider sweeping new changes to local government that no one had asked for, while simultaneously specifying three years for a new report by Lady Casey on Social Care – a subject on which everyone is desperate for action. Could this […]
31/12/2024 / 03/01/2025 by markhaworthbooth
This is a new blog, begun at the end of 2024, by a Green councillor in North Devon. It will reflect on my council work and various activist roles, alongside my lives as a writer – mainly, at present, on politics, wildlife and a memoir – and also as an Honorary Research Fellow at the […]
Councillors
16/04/2023 / 09/01/2025 by North Devon Green Party
Ward: Landkey Email: mark.haworth-booth@northdevon.greenparty.org.uk Links: NDDC Councillor page Read my Blog
16/04/2023 / 29/05/2024 by North Devon Green Party
Ward: Ilfracombe West Email: sara.wilson@northdevon.greenparty.org.uk Links: NDDC Councillor Page
Ward: Heanton Punchardon Email: ricky.knight@northdevon.greenparty.org.uk Links: NDDC Councillor page
