The Hidden Power Podcast Ep 3: Authorising Change at Ground Level with Julian Corner
Where is the power? Julian Corner used a process of local ‘action enquiry’ to bring about effective social change. This in places … View more +
The Hidden Power Podcast Ep 2: Progress in the Field of Child Protection with Eileen Munro
‘Professor Eileen Munro turned decades of inadequate child protection on its head with one simple question: are we helping or hindering the … View more +
The Hidden Power Podcast Ep 1: Where is the Power?
This episode introduces the experience and current thinking of co-presenter, Ed Straw. We talk about his journey from being an engineering graduate … View more +
The Hidden Power Podcast Trailer
‘Why doesn’t government work? Is it the politicians, the civil servants, the political parties? Or is it the system in which they … View more +
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 +
Stand & Deliver: How consultancy skills and systems thinking can make government work
Why, I wondered, do governments fail so regularly – judged both by our expectations and by the intentions of the elected … View more +
Feedback: The Fourth Separation of Powers
Knowing Where You Are The Secret Life of Chaos, a television programme presented by Professor Jim Al-Khalili, describes the extraordinary self-organising capacity … View more +
Why the Lack of a Formal Constitution Matters
Would a formal contract between the UK government and its citizens improve delivery? The answer is – greatly. Constitutions may be boring … View more +
Reform of the Civil Service
What makes the UK Civil Service another weak link in the system of government? … View more +
Congress for the Future
An excerpt from Stand & Deliver: A Design For Successful Government (2014) Ed Straw Intergenerational and fairness issues will continue as we … View more +
The Resulture
An excerpt from Stand & Deliver: A Design For Successful Government (2014) Ed Straw Three separation of powers are taken for … 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 +
Public Sector Duties
An excerpt from Stand & Deliver: A Design For Successful Government (2014) Ed Straw The next part of the new approach would … View more +
Competitive Democracy
An excerpt from Stand & Deliver: A Design For Successful Government (2014) Ed Straw Rarely are the benefits of competition talked … View more +
Why Governments Fail: The Constitution
An excerpt from Stand & Deliver: A Design For Successful Government (2014) Ed Straw Let’s try and pull all this together – … 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 weak governance stopped Labour winning the general election
Considering the turnaround in fortunes during and after the 2017 general election, why didn’t Labour win? The answer is to be found … View more +
England is Last Place on Earth the Conservatives Have Left To Rule
Published by: leftfootforward.org
The party is returning to its tribal homeland …
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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 +
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 +
Sir Ivan Rogers’ exit proves, once again, that the Civil Service serves its own interests, not Britain’s
Foreign Office civil servants are an odd lot. They even have an eccentric way of speaking: understated, circumlocutory, a code to be … View more +