“Everywhere it seems to be the case that the absence of government does not lead to bewilderment and confusion and disorder, as might be imagined…
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For the last couple of decades, the question has raged as to who would win the media wars: content providers or media platforms that can…
So the NHS is 70 years old, and – perhaps it is because it is currently under threat from serious underfunding – the coverage has…
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…
The euro is stuck in purgatory. Heaven seems ever further away. And with the Italian political crisis, hell seems closer than ever. In the past,…
We have often addressed in this blog the question of bottom-up versus top down initiatives. The latest has been Barry Cooper’s excellent piece about getting…
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…
t’s very easy for those, like us, who make policy recommendations to fall into abstract thinking. To forget that policy decisions have a direct impact…
“I don’t understand how a computer can not function.” That was a comment by Patricia Minchin, a 75 year old nurse who was one of…
We have long railed here against the use of targets as a primary, or even sole, measure of performance. Now targets have led to the…
The story so far goes back to the parallels between the campaign for free trade and the campaign against slavery, which realised – especially after…
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…