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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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…
Many commentators in the foreign media of Western Europe and the USA are in bewilderment. A country once known for its pragmatism, disdain for extreme…
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…
“The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation;…
The difficulty that liberals have in dealing with religion was illustrated by the events surrounding the resignation of Tim Farron as leader of the Liberal…
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…
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. …
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 few days before the so-called Pestminster scandal began to bubble up, a picture of a famous piece of embroidery appeared on Sarah’s Facebook account….
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…