I was a little late last night and nearly missed the Nesta event in London to launch the report they wrote with Osca. But I’m…
System renewal. Challenging established notions. Reimagining our societies.
System renewal. Challenging established notions. Reimagining our societies.
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Ständige Konferenz der Kultusminister der Länder in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. German just trips off the tongue doesn’t it. The delightfully named Permanent Conference of the…
The collapse of government contractor Carillion will spread havoc. Sympathy for its creditors may not be overwhelming. But the impact on those who depended on…
It is a strange thing, vouchsafed to few of us, to find ourselves vindicated by the National Audit Office of all people. Yet I have…
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…
Text of talk given at the launch of Radix Italy. Excerpt: (Download full text here) ‘Radix’ is derived from the latin name for root. To…
So the ‘Jamaica’ coalition discussions hit the skids in Germany and Angela Merkel may have to think again. The sheer difficulty of getting CDU, CSU,…
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…
This blog is also posted on the CityMetric pages… Around England, new mayors of various political creeds are settling into their new roles, and figuring…
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…