I met the folk singer Pete Seeger just before he died. He was jamming outside in the July sunshine, with some young violinists, playing Ashokan…
System renewal. Challenging established notions. Reimagining our societies.
System renewal. Challenging established notions. Reimagining our societies.
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A symptom of decreasing community participation in public service planning and management is the increasing size of public service organisations. It has now reached a…
Some years ago, I was in the room when a consulting firm was pitching a mega-project to the president of research and development at a…
One has to wonder. Is this the most incompetent British government in living memory? The latest fracas relates to the provision to the Brexit Select…
The story so far. Govia Thameslink won the franchise to run the Southern rail franchise and took over in early 2015. Thanks to their failure…
This letter was published in the Financial Times Sir, Andrew Mitchell (Letters, October 27) suggests we should bolster the independence of the civil service and…
It’s a funny thing, but Michael Gove’s defence of Boris Johnson, following his damaging confusion about a British woman detained on holiday in Iran, gave…
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. …
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…
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…
We had what my youngest son used to call an ‘insect day’ at my eldest son’s school on Monday, so we spent the afternoon watching…
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…