The Brent Magazine and Eric Pickles

Eric Pickles is trying to suppress certain types of Council publicity, as the Guardian reports.  This is typical of his technique.  Take a trivial issue in a few local authorities. Blow it out of all proportion. Then use it as an excuse to enact draconian legislation to inflict your control over very authority.  The issue in this case is about Council newspapers.

Brent of course does not do a Council newspaper, but we do have the Brent Magazine, which we use to promote things like recycling.  That kind of educational stuff is essential to making recycling work.  Plans by Pickles to cut our issues to no more than four a year, would actually cost money since it would make the magazine less attractive to the advertisers who pay for it.