About Martin
A bit of background

About Martin

Find out more about Martin Tod's career and activities

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Rotating Tweets
A mildly popular Wordpress plug-in

Rotating Tweets

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Hampshire County Council
Speeches and questions at HCC

Hampshire County Council

Questions & speeches on fracking, badgers, railways, open data etc.

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What I'm up to
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What I'm up to

Check out what I'm doing in Winchester and St Paul

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Winchester news

Reporting graffiti on telecoms cabinets

Like so many, I’m getting very irritated at current levels of graffiti – and there’s a lot going on at the City Council to get it under control. Most graffiti in our area is removed by the Business Improvement District …

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COVID-19 and our local streets

I’ve been thinking a lot about the challenges and opportunities that COVID-19 offers to the way we use our streets and roads here in Winchester.

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Hampshire’s cuts to hit Winchester hard

Yesterday’s meeting of Hampshire’s Conservative cabinet confirmed that they will go ahead with their reckless £140 million cuts

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Other news / blog

Fixing Bluetooth problem with TP-Link UB400

I recently bought myself some Sony Bluetooth earbuds for my phone, but I was keen to see if I could connect them to my PC too – so that I could use them in conference calls, for example. But my …

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A surprising campaign

Like many, I’ve been surprised at how shambolic the Conservative Party’s national campaign has been. We supposedly have a ‘strong and stable’ Prime Minister, but frankly she’s been all over the place.

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Stopping terrorist attacks

The atrocity in Manchester was horrifying and very distressing. One of the few points of light has been the failure of ISIS’s strategy of using this kind of attack to polarise the community in Manchester and nationally: they’ve almost completely failed to do this.

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Speech about the Climate Emergency – Hampshire Cabinet – June 17, 2019