“Education, education, education,” said Tony Blair in 2001 as he set out the key tenets of New Labour in the UK after almost two decades…
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“Education, education, education,” said Tony Blair in 2001 as he set out the key tenets of New Labour in the UK after almost two decades…
In our review of corporate governance last year, we took the view that the UK should move from its primary focus on ‘creating shareholder value’ to a…
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…
A few weeks ago I received a mass email from Lufthansa. They were about to change the miles awards for their frequent flyer programme. They…
Cast your mind back, if you can, about 160 years to the end of 1858 – when the European crisis was emerging that would have…
Every year, various newspaper and magazines come up with their word of the year. Our Radix word for this last year is Insurgency. If one thing…
December 14 marked an important event in Asia: the start of a reconciliation between China and South Korea. Beijing had taken Seoul to task for…
The sounds of hoofs is growing, the noise of the emerging antitrust movement is not exactly deafening, but it is at least audible. I cite…
That is the task that Lord Malloch-Brown seems to have set himself. It is doubtless a good idea for those who oppose Brexit to speak…
How do political parties realign themselves. That is a peculiar mystery in the UK, where everything seems desperately constipated. It also depends on context. The…
The debate has moved on, and “Whitehall sources” confirm it. No longer are government ministers talking about the battle between “hard and soft Brexit” –…
I have just spent a couple of days in Paris. It was raining much of the time. But Paris is still Paris. In my meetings here, the contrast with…