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This book explores what it means to act in a democratic way and provides practical guidance which will help public service professionals ensure users are at the centre of public services delivery, drawing from examples of different public services around the world.

This book explores what it means to act in a democratic way and provides practical guidance which will help public service professionals ensure users are at the centre of public services delivery, drawing from examples of different public services around the world.

Cover -- Online Dating After Sixty -- Acknowledgements -- Title -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- 1 My formative years -- 2 Three more marriages, the fourth divorce -- 3 The next fifteen years -- 4 My internet dating profile -- 5 My first internet dating experience -- 6 More internet experiences -- 7 Tragics, duds and dickheads -- 8 Looking for a lady who's exuberant and gay -- 9 Would you like to sleep with me tonight? -- 10 Were only older guys interested in me now? -- 11 I like talking dirty sometimes -- 12 Would she mind me staying and jumping her brother? -- 13 Did I want great sex? -- 14 Writing and knitting, then what? -- 15 Romance - is it an impossible dream? -- 16 Retirement isn't for me -- 17 I was gone again -- 18 Internet dating is here to stay -- 19 How was I going to be able to say no? -- 20 I fled to my garden -- 21 At last I was happy - do I really need a man? -- Epilogue: Oh my God, I'm now almost 70 -- My favourite knitting pattern - the diagonal scarf.

Taking the majority of its examples from the Salon of 1872, this article explores the extent to which official intervention was effective in eliminating from the exhibition potentially inopportune representations of the Franco-Prussian War. The withdrawal of a certain number of works deemed to risk offending the Prussians coincided with the very moment the French government was trying to negotiate the departure of occupying enemy troops under the terms of the May 1871 Treaty of Frankfurt. It initiated, or reignited, a debate about censorship during the course of which art criticism was itself politicized. Drawing on information in the Salon catalogue and analysing the reviews of the exhibition which appeared in the Parisian press, the article takes issue with much scholarship to date. In particular, it demonstrates how the interpretation of artistic works on display is inflected by polemical and ideological determinants. What emerges from this is precisely the incipient revanchard discourse which the government had hoped to suppress.