The Wardman Wire

Things have been a bit quiet here from me for a few days.

What happened to Matt was that the other site I am involved in at present – to do with making sure that the owners who are running down the former SPCK Chain of Bookshops (that readers to the Wardman Wire may well notice but ignore when you visit a Cathedral Town) are held to account – has been going haywire and is taking up several hours every day at present.

That site is the SPCK/SSG News, Notes and Info blog.

That scrutiny campaign involves bringing to light a disgraceful mismanagement process which has resulted in 30+ Employment Tribunal Claims (the number is now 31), an official Charity Commission enquiry, $1.5m of unpaid debts, more than $500k taken out of the same organisation by the management who have not paid the suppliers, and a “bad faith” bankruptcy attempt to avoid those debts – among a whole lot of other things. As happens with these cases, networks turn into hubs and contact points for a lot of different people, especially in this case which is very complex and has been reported for over 2 years now.

We’ve had a lot of brilliant support from bloggers all over, but we are into the real nitty-gritty and it is quite tough and detailed work – especially as most of the media have stayed out due to J Mark Brewer’s habit of making legal threats, or due to the sheer complexity of the whole thing.

So when push comes to shove it gets priority if I’m the only one in the group who can do particular things.

Therefore my apologies for the thin content on the Wardman Wire for the time being from me.

And it’s shaping up to be a busy Christmas over there as we are collating a package of evidence to go to the regulators. And I’m writing an E-Book about it as well (that’s Christmas gone).

In the meantime, later today I’ll have a review of the Lib Dem Voice Blog Booky-Wook and we are preparing an Online Symposium about understanding and fighting the BNP politically.

The Lib Dem Book is called “The Tangerine Review”, and Mark Pack claims that that is due to riffing off the “Orange Book“, not due to any narcotic substances.

I’ll aim to at least keep on top of the Daily Papers.