14 January (Part 1) - Bexley’s bonkers ban
It’s
the weekend and time for some lighter stuff…
Only eight of London’s 20 Outer London Boroughs are regular visitors to Bexley
is Bonkers and all of those are less frequent visitors than a couple of Inner
London Boroughs, but as you probably know, Bexley is not among them because
Chief Executive Will Tuckley decided that his
staff and library users should be
kept in the dark about his antics. But someone must know a way around the
censorship. Just after new year Bexley popped up on the visitors list. One, two
and one visits on three consecutive days.
It’s possible the ban fell off the list during some new year maintenance, I have
no way of telling but in practice Bonkers is probably available at any time in
any place by going to http://translate.google.co.uk
and entering the web address, then set it to translate English to English (if it
doesn’t auto-detect it) and click the Translate button,
Google will remind you that the site is already in English (if it is) and offer the
original (untranslated) page. It works for me and should work elsewhere. You don’t
have to tolerate Will Tuckley’s censorship if you don’t want to. Probably best to
try it in the library rather than in a council office, unless you are councillor
and immune from another of Bexley’s unfair dismissals.