In the last few years, I have had the opportunity to visit Bournemouth twice. The story from my taxi drivers and people I spoke to…
System renewal. Challenging established notions. Reimagining our societies.
System renewal. Challenging established notions. Reimagining our societies.
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In the UK, what happens locally on the ground is not much to do with local political control at the time, either locally or nationally. …
Those who believe in the decentralisation of public services do so because it is thought that better decisions will be made the closer service users…
There are few examples in Europe of political entities – states, regions, cities or parishes – which are governed from the bottom up. The small…
This post is taken from my Padua address at the launch of Radix Italy (see full text). Everywhere in the world we are seeing a…
These last few days, I spent some time talking to my Spanish wife and her friends about events in Catalonia. None of them are Catalan….
Sometimes all you can rely on, to understand some sense of the direction events are taking us in, is a sense of history. As such,…
The year 1992 saw the start of the new-look European Union and the Maastricht treaty which created it. It was also the year of an…
It’s a long game. Any predictions of the eventual effects of Brexit on both Britain and the European Union are likely to be premature. The…
I was surprised to find, this morning, that the news still has the power to reduce me to tears. The vision of parents struggling through…
No, Fabianism isn’t dead yet – but the flurry of debate about parents taking their children out of school does seem to mark a moment…
Power to the people! This is the cry of those who call for more participative democracy. Be they party leaders (or aspiring leaders) like Corbyn…