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The vote on Any Questions on Friday night, broadcast from Newcastle, suggested that at least half the chattering classes are in favour of t...

There are always one or two people in public life who are a kind of touchstone.  They only have to open their mouths and you find you disagr...

And if we don't, we can expect them to get much less effective and much more expensive.  It's time to call a halt to inappropriate s...

Where would Jesus pitch his tent in the stand-off outside St Paul's Cathedral, I wonder?  Well, I know one thing - he is unlikely to hav...

"Mony, mony, get money still – Let virtue follow if it will.” That was what William Blake said he heard when he listened to the soun...

Every so often, you run across an amazing and forgotten story that you know has to be preserved.  I just did.  So let me tell again the stra...

Why don’t organisations and systems work? Well, they do, of course – and our own experience confirms why they work and why they don’t. W...