The Real Blog

I had a brief lesson yesterday evening about what is wrong with administration, public and private, in the UK after unfortunately entanglin...

My cousin Sally is over from New Zealand, which involves a great deal of robust exchanges, mainly about child-rearing.  Sally is scary but...

A fascinating editorial in the Guardian last week suggested a parallel between styles of military command and the sclerosis of public servi...

I see the coalition is once again struggling to keep down the size of the deficit and is missing their targets for this year.  It is down, o...

I must admit that McKinsey is my least favourite management consultancy. I’ve got nothing against their very clever staff and consultants, ...

Leoopld Kohr was an economist who was an immigrant to this country (he died in Gloucester). He once shared offices with Ernest Hemingway, ...

“London is too full of fogs and … serious people …Whether the fogs produce the serious people, or  whether the serious people produce the ...