‘Self-serving bureaucracy’ – Ed Straw on how to stop government failures

Ed Straw, author of Stand and Deliver: A Design for Successful Government, talks to Going Underground host Afshin Rattansi about how to make governments work. He argues that it is not the people at fault, but the system. For example, when governments make a change they will spin its results to make it look positive, when what is really needed is an independent feedback…