Tag: Bureaucracy

Yet another miserable journey home with Southern Rail (power supply problems again, or so they say), I found myself thinking about Britain’s brand new aircraft…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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. …

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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…

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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…

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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…

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