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…
System renewal. Challenging established notions. Reimagining our societies.
System renewal. Challenging established notions. Reimagining our societies.
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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. …
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….