This is a cautionary note for all those people taking Michael Gove’s speech about “The Privilege of Public Service” seriously. One of my favourite books…
System renewal. Challenging established notions. Reimagining our societies.
System renewal. Challenging established notions. Reimagining our societies.
Author: Prof Colin Talbot
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After Dominic Cumming’s Rose Garden press conference I tweeted this. I was astonished it went so (semi) viral, with over 2 million views. But I…
In a crisis, the default response of the British state is: command and control. Centralise power, organize everything on a big scale, impose ‘one size…
I was recently asked to provide some comments on the issue of Small Modular Nuclear Reactors (SMRs). These are small reactors built in a factory…
In democratic government, the general rule is supposed to be simple: advisers advise, ministers decide, civil servants do. In the UK system, that emerged fully…
Following his success in the 2019 general election, Boris Johnson and his government have talked a lot about “levelling up” Britain. But what does it…
The Radix sub-title is “a think tank of the radical centre”, which understandably sounds like a contradiction to many. They equate ‘radical’ with wholesale transformation…
Warring Fictions: Left Populism and it’s defining myths (Rowman & Littlefield, 2019) Colin Talbot talks to Chris Clarke, one of the latest writers to try…
First-Past-the-Post is not just deeply unrepresentative, it is poisonous to democratic politics. It fundamentally undermines real democratic values. The UK general election has just demonstrated…
Through the summer and autumn of 2019 there was much talk of both political and constitutional crises wracking the body politic of dear old Blighty….
We are offered a contest between two leaders while trends point to multi-party competition It may seem an absurd question to ask ourselves as the…
Wages for Housework! Some of us are old enough to remember when this slogan emerged during the 1970s upsurge in feminism in the UK. At…