Top-down public services in the UK are planned and delivered according to techno-bureaucratic systems and processes which followed the thinking in the Beveridge Report of…
System renewal. Challenging established notions. Reimagining our societies.
System renewal. Challenging established notions. Reimagining our societies.
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This adds something to my piece on clusters, which I see as an ingredient of how things will be in a future in which there…
The Telegraph economics columnist Jeremy Warner has noticed the new Radix book, out this week, called Backlash: Saving globalisation from itself by Joe Zammit-Lucia and myself. In…
The world is full of clusters. They have been around since the beginning of time. They can be seen from both top down and bottom…
I haven’t ever given a lecture to nursing students before, and thoroughly enjoyed doing so last week. but it was also a bit of an…
In 1978, I moved away from bureaucracy. I did so because I was disillusioned with the top-down system and wanted to live away from it. …
So the cat is out of the bag. Or maybe it is. A document has been leaked about Brexit scenarios, prepared it would seem by…
I was a little late last night and nearly missed the Nesta event in London to launch the report they wrote with Osca. But I’m…
The truth is that top-down and bottom-up are already living together. I have just come across a suggestion that our present top-down bureaucratic form of…
Text of talk given at the launch of Radix Italy. Excerpt: (Download full text here) ‘Radix’ is derived from the latin name for root. To…
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…
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. …