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I know, I know, bloggers are endlessly vain about being proved right - and we so rarely are, that you have to hand it to us when one of our ...

But don't let's go overboard about it.  I'm not sure either that the Defra Secretary has thought through the implications of wha...

We have lost too many pioneering green economists lately.  First David Fleming and then Richard Douthwaite, and now Margrit Kennedy, who die...

I make no apology for returning to Roy Lilley’s NHS Managers blog, partly because it is probably the most expert influential public services...

Just a few weeks before Christmas, there was a thrilling interview by Decca Aitkenhead in the Guardian with Louise Casey, the head of the g...

Happy new year to anyone tuning in. Vaguely political bloggers like me are expected occasionally to be a little like we frame ourselves – a...

The almost complete disappearance of Gordon Brown from public life has done little for his reputation.  Without him around to remind us of t...