Congestion Charges - what do you think?

Back during the first AoNZ 2020 lockdown Paul Brislen, comms person and NZ Twitter personality, answered a question that a lot were asking. His answer goes a long way to also answering why I ask seemingly simple questions in meetings, especially when asking the the definition of an acronym that I know already As is the nature of Twitter Pauls answer was a thread over 12 tweets, I've pulled them all together. "Why do journalists ask stupid questions?" by @paulbrislen, Apr 8 2020 There's a bit of misunderstanding out there about why journalists ask stupid questions - I think stemming from the press conferences and seeing the sausage get made. I'd like to address that if I may. Sometimes journalists ask stupid questions because they're stupid. This is usually not the case but can happen. Usually they ask stupid questions to get the ANSWER to the stupid question on tape or film or on record. This is important. They need to get it on the record because it often do

OMG! Following on from my re-posting of 20 year-old articles from mates around the world in what was known as The Forum (a Web 1.0 version of blogging / 'social media') my mate Kate has sent in a new one for us all ... how friggin' awesome eh. And she's gonna do more, yay, The Forum returns! Off to panto rehearsal... oh yes I am !!!!! 😍 POST – IT FROM LONDON - November 2021 – Kate Ayres “The Anniversary Edition” Firstly, Happy 20th Anniversary from the “post-it” blogger! Yes, it’s been that long since myself and Mike Riversdale sent monthly or bi-monthly missives from opposite parts of the world and to celebrate and remember these fantastic posts charting modern social history, I am writing again from the comfort of my laptop and in my PJs... Oh how very Post Pandemic ironic ! So, let’s start the posting. It’s all go in the UK, or namely Glasgow in Scotland, most of the world’s leaders are attending the COP26 Climate Change Summit. It’s been controversial since i

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