Making a difference, Public Art, being a Typomaniac, baleful Brexit, Watertesting and London exhibitions 10/02/2025 / 10/02/2025 by Mark Haworth-Booth Making a difference? I wonder, quite often, how much difference I am making as a district councillor. This week I found that I had helped in a way I had not expected. I serve on the joint committee (with Torridge District Council) of the North Devon Crematorium. At our meeting last Friday afternoon, the Crematorium […] Read more » Mark Haworth-Booth NorthDevon NorthDevon Greens
On Water Quality, BT as farce or tragedy, Carnival and RIP Michael Longley 28/01/2025 / 28/01/2025 by Mark Haworth-Booth Welcome to my latest blog post… I am a member of the Taw Torridge Estuary Forum, which met last Monday evening. Louise Wainwright, chair of Avon River Champions in South Devon, was our special guest. She gave a rousing speech about the abject state of our waterways and our dysfunctional regulations but proposed a solution […] Read more » Landkey Ward Mark Haworth-Booth NorthDevon
Councillor Mark Haworth-Booth’s blog 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 […] Read more » NorthDevon