Three Reasons Our Railways Don’t Work (and How To Fix Them)
How on earth could one of the world’s most advanced cities manage to disrupt its essential transport infrastructure, the lives of so … 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 +
The Pipe Will Never Be Fat Enough: Four Reforms To Deliver Competitive Broadband
When the government recently pledged ‘gold standard full fibre’ broadband, a collective cheer went up. For a short while, until we reflected … View more +
Why ditching the zigzag will lead to better policy
Ed Straw interviewed by CPI on the high cost of changing policy with every new government … View more +
Policy by Design
An excerpt from Stand & Deliver: A Design For Successful Government (2014) Ed Straw Professional policymaking prevents piss-poor performance. Adaptation of a … 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 +
How Fake Are The Analyses Of ‘Fake News’?
I keep reading these analyses by commentators and earnest academics on ‘fake news’, its fertilizer of social media, with Brexit and Trump … View more +
The Dead Generalist
This pamphlet argues that the time for fundamental reform of the civil servcie has come, and that it should be treated by … View more +
Evidence to Political & Constitutional Reform Committee on A New Magna Carta?
Proposals for a radically different system of government, including institutionalised feedback, policy vetting, statutory public sector duties. … View more +
Social Change and Conditionality
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 +