The old adage that you never see change when you are immersed in it often chimes true and I think this is the case in our sector at the moment. This hit home to me only recently when I decided that after five or so years of working in a mess, I would undertake a spot of spring cleaning of my hideaway room at home that I loosely call my office.
Call me untidy, sad or a hoarder but part of my spring clean involved me doing something with all the back copies of The MJ which I’ve been piling up, and how interesting it was to glance at them once again and review what our thinking had been in 2008 compared to that of the most recent copy I have at hand.
Back in 2008, we were talking about the future of council tax, mirroring private sector working, a possible role for the third sector and that one in four Londoners were interested in becoming a councillor.
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