They were surprised. And I was surprised that they were surprised. I was giving a talk to some senior business people and pointed out that…
System renewal. Challenging established notions. Reimagining our societies.
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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…
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…
This letter was published in the Financial Times on 29 December 2017 As a think tank for the radical centre, we strongly support Martin Sandbu’s…
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…
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…
What problems might arise from tethering the value of money to an essential sustainable service of nature in each host bioregion of the planet? This…
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…
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…
I write this while visiting various parts of the USA. During the trip, I couldn’t resist baiting some of my friends by suggesting that Donald…
A week is a long time in politics, they say. A week before September’s Federal German elections, all seemed reasonably well for Angela Merkel and…