Monday, January 28, 2019

The danger of being labelled

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Richard North’s daily blogs have been indispensable reading for me recently – he penetrates the laziness of the British media reproduction...
Saturday, January 26, 2019

The EndGame approaches

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It’s the endgame moment for the BREXIT farce…with the British parliament totally deadlocked on the PM’s strategy (voted down last week by 2...
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Wednesday, January 23, 2019

Le Grand Debat

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The “yellow vests” (gillets jaunes) got only passing attention in the British newspapers which have had more dramatic (in the full sense of...
Tuesday, January 22, 2019

Tribute to an historian

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What looks to be a fascinating biography of the UK’s most famous historian – Eric Hobsbawm – a life in history – will shortly be published...
Sunday, January 20, 2019

Time to reclaim public services

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To coincide with this year’s Davos Conference, Oxfam has just released what has become an annual shot over the bows of the global plutocr...
Saturday, January 19, 2019

Plain – and translated - English

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This blog tries to write in plain English about important questions – such as “the State” and the continuous efforts made globally in the ...
Thursday, January 17, 2019

Is Admin Reform really Sexy?

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It’s a bit eccentric, I know, to upload a book about the experience of pubic admin reform at a time when the British government and socie...
Monday, January 14, 2019

Populist – and proud of it

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Since 2011, I’ve blogged about populism four or five times – mainly in a neutral definitional way. But a combination last week of a coupl...