The Hidden Power of Systems Thinking Online Book Launch
Ray Ison, Professor of Systems, The Open University and Ed Straw, Visiting Fellow ASTiP group, The Open University … View more +
The Hidden Power of Systems Thinking: Governance in a Climate Emergency
“Climate change does not listen to the morning’s news program, read the papers or hear the latest announcements by a government. It … View more +
A Busted Flush in the House of Cards
Our system of government is an old banger of a car, and it will never produce what people want. We need a … View more +
If Medics Treated Patients As Governments Treat the NHS, We’d All Be Dead
Another Secretary of State pushes determinedly, blindly on with NHS reforms, deluded in the notion that they alone can solve the great … View more +
Has Britain (or indeed Ireland) got Government Talent?
Why can’t UK government do a Macron? That’s very simple to answer: because of our Constitution, such as it is. It ensures … View more +
Unity Through Understanding, Or the Alternative To Shouting at Each Other
This week I've been trying to understand why people hold views that are seemingly self-defeating. The two obvious examples are supporters of … View more +
Is British Democracy Becoming A Competition of Incompetence?
If we all stand back and take a ruthless, non-tribal, unheroic look at the standards on offer in the general election, this … View more +
Redshift Over Britain: The Centre Moves Left
Labour's unlikely leader has not been struck by a vision whilst walking in the woods of Dolgellau. Rather the world has come … View more +
Stand & Deliver: A Design For Successful Government
If you are ever angered by the standard of government we endure, you are not alone. A key issue for democratic politics, … View more +
Government Matters – Part 1
The new relationship between government and people requires much more than a change in conversational tone. Expectations of rising competence means a … View more +
Government Matters – Part 2
Published by: Renewal, a journal of social democracy Summary: Roughly, the process of government works like this. Two parties compete … View more +
Who Are You?
Who is the Labour Party? What is it here for? Politics is no longer what is was, when labour was formed. It's … View more +
How Can New labour Recover: Losing To An Old Etonian
Published / Commissioned by (whichever is appropriate): Summary: … View more +
Killing Tony
Summary: At a time when Tony Blair still could not bring himself to resigning, this piece explained why the Parliamentary Labour Party … View more +
Killing Tony 2
Summary: Few leaders go voluntarily. The parliamentary labour party has a duty to us all to remove Tony … View more +
Organisation review of new labour
Summary: The case for a fresh organisational review of New Labour in government … View more +
Tomorrow’s Immigration
Background paper for BBC Radio 4 programme Summary: Immigration is a toxic orthodoxy of our time.It needs an open honest debate now, even … View more +
The right cuts can boost services: A step-by step guide to minimising the damage that will be caused by the coming decline in public expenditure
Summary: History has much to teach us about public sector cuts. The Thatcher administration adopted largely blunt instrument cutting, which resulted in … View more +
Marriage Signals Stability,It Doesn’t Create It
Publishedby: The Fabian Review Summary: … View more +