The author Radical Middle, the campaigner Mark Satin, used the metaphor of roads and myopia to explain what he meant by the title. For Satin, it…
System renewal. Challenging established notions. Reimagining our societies.
System renewal. Challenging established notions. Reimagining our societies.
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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…
After Milton Friedman famously proposed that the sole purpose of business enterprises should be to maximise shareholder value in an article in the New York…
A few days before the so-called Pestminster scandal began to bubble up, a picture of a famous piece of embroidery appeared on Sarah’s Facebook account….
For more than a century across the western world, political movements, governments and public policy focused exclusively on states and markets, and ignored civil society…
That’s a big number. Probably too big for anyone to comprehend. It’s more than three times global GDP. And it’s the amount of outstanding global…
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…
If there is one thing that we should learn from the current widespread political upheavals, it’s that Bill Clinton’s famous dictum that it’s the economy…
It isn’t clear when it started to happen. We are removing the ‘care’ from healthcare. I first noted this trend in the 1980s. I was…
It wasn’t a short speech – and certainly not a snappy title: “Secure a decisive victory in building a moderately prosperous society in all respects…
This post first appeared as a column in Town & Country Planning magazine… When I bought my house a few years ago, on the edge…
There are few examples in Europe of political entities – states, regions, cities or parishes – which are governed from the bottom up. The small…