Saturday, May 30, 2015

You have nothing to lose but your Chain.....-link Fences

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The last few posts may have appeared to have had different themes but, I realise, were linked to the basic difficulty we seem these days i...
Thursday, May 28, 2015

Stand and Deliver - a new design for successful government??

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A week ago I mentioned Ed Straw's  “Stand and Deliver - a new design for successful government” . In this – and a future post – I wa...

The Internet - part III

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I’m always about three years behind – be it films, fashions or books. And I’m not all that interested in the latest “technological break...
Wednesday, May 27, 2015

In Praise of the Free Spirit

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Institutions are conservative (Donald Schon coined in 1970 the lovely phrase “dynamic conservatism”) and, despite the rhetoric in recent d...
Sunday, May 24, 2015

A model for People Power??

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I know that some of my (many) global readers who share my critical/sceptical stance on power structures have had their hopes raised rece...

Must Labour Lose?

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I had no sooner remarked on the absence of serious analysis of the results of the British General election of 7 May than I was almost over...
Friday, May 22, 2015

is British journalism dead?

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My first draft for this post went as follows – “ If ever people needed proof that British journalism and newspapers are no longer capabl...
Thursday, May 21, 2015

A Call to Arms!

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I have been reading these past 2 days an important tract which appeared last year and which pillories the state of British government - ...