Foreign Office civil servants are an odd lot. They even have an eccentric way of speaking: understated, circumlocutory, a code to be … View more +
This pamphlet argues that the time for fundamental reform of the civil servcie has come, and that it should be treated by … View more +
Summary: Ed Straw also looks back to the brave new dawn of the 1990s, a time when ‘New Labour was soon to … View more +
The new relationship between government and people requires much more than a change in conversational tone. Expectations of rising competence means a … View more +
Published by: Renewal, a journal of social democracy Summary: Roughly, the process of government works like this. Two parties compete … View more +
Published by: Smith Institute, from Advancing Opportunity: Routes In and Out of Criminal Justice Summary: This paper describes how an “offender-centric” business … View more +
Published by: Demos from a collection of essays: Family Business, 1999.
Summary: How home and workplace can learn from each other. …
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Finally, some Westminster politicians have concluded that real reform of the Civil Service will not be realized through party politics. A bi-partisan … View more +
Proposals for a radically different system of government, including institutionalised feedback, policy vetting, statutory public sector duties. … View more +
BBC News is exhibiting sure signs of an organisation without a purpose. Is it in the business of education and information? Or … View more +
Published by: Progress Magazine Summary: Based on research for the Social Market Foundation of conditional approaches in several countries, this article summarises its … View more +
Governments of various politics have made welfare conditionality the norm in many countries.But the tying of benefits to some action by the … View more +
Summary: History has much to teach us about public sector cuts. The Thatcher administration adopted largely blunt instrument cutting, which resulted in … View more +
Lecture to 115 MBA students, 95% from outside the UK, covering around 35 countries introducing the Treaty For Government … View more +
Event: Systems and Cybernetics in Organisations Date: 2015 Summary: Having spent a working lifetime in and around government in various roles, I became more … View more +
Ed Straw, Former Labour advisor, talks to Going Underground host Afshin Rattansi about how big business can infiltrate our government to effect … View more +
Published by: Russia Today
Date: 2015
Summary: Former Downing Street advisor and architect of New Labour, Ed Straw, joins Afshin to analyse the future …
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