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 +
Templeton Applied
Summary: Ed Straw also looks back to the brave new dawn of the 1990s, a time when ‘New Labour was soon to … 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 +
Reducing reoffending – an offender-centric business model
Published by: Smith Institute, from Advancing Opportunity: Routes In and Out of Criminal Justice Summary: This paper describes how an “offender-centric” business … View more +
Getting the relationship right
Published by: Demos from a collection of essays: Family Business, 1999.
Summary: How home and workplace can learn from each other. …
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Is The Civil Service Reformable?
Finally, some Westminster politicians have concluded that real reform of the Civil Service will not be realized through party politics. A bi-partisan … 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 +
A Moment of Truth for the BBC?
BBC News is exhibiting sure signs of an organisation without a purpose. Is it in the business of education and information? Or … View more +
Conditional sense
Published by: Progress Magazine Summary: Based on research for the Social Market Foundation of conditional approaches in several countries, this article summarises its … 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 +
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 +
What can a Management Consultant teach a Government Minister?
Lecture to 115 MBA students, 95% from outside the UK, covering around 35 countries introducing the Treaty For Government … View more +
Why Organisation and Systems theory and practice will solve the enduring problems of government, and politics and more democracy (by itself) will not.
Event: Systems and Cybernetics in Organisations Date: 2015 Summary: Having spent a working lifetime in and around government in various roles, I became more … View more +
My Brother played by the rules, but the rules are wrong
Ed Straw, Former Labour advisor, talks to Going Underground host Afshin Rattansi about how big business can infiltrate our government to effect … View more +
Corbynmania: Advice for the new leader of the Labour Party
Published by: Russia Today
Date: 2015
Summary: Former Downing Street advisor and architect of New Labour, Ed Straw, joins Afshin to analyse the future …
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