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Back in the 1940s, the great American theorist of ‘total quality’ W. Edwards Deming warned that assembly lines, in themselves, are not effic...

There is a kind of experiment you can do with public services where I live in Crystal Palace, and I was reminded of it today when the bus d...

[ Paul Nash's painting 'Still Life with Shale Gas' ] Yes, the global economy has had its difficulties, an unpredictable blip ...

The novelist John Lanchester has built up a formidable knowledge of banking for a non-banker and is wielding the results regularly in the L...

Regular readers of this blog (if there are any) may have noticed, if they were particularly observant, that I have't managed to keep up ...

I described recently discovering Violet Bonham-Carter's lost classic of Edwardian political memoirs,  Winston Churchill A...

I spend two wintry months in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, in 2010, based at what is now the  Schumacher Center for New Economics , and p...