Tuesday, 13 March 2018

Columbus and Amazon: one objective

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This blog first appeared on the Radix site: Ten years ago, my book about the rivalry between Columbus, Cabot and Vespucci was published (...
Tuesday, 27 February 2018

The problem with imperialist public services

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This post first appeared on the Radix blog... I haven’t ever given a lecture to nursing students before, and thoroughly enjoyed doing so l...
Tuesday, 13 February 2018

The strange rebirth of Liberal economics

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This post first appeared on the Radix blog... Once upon a time, I was a member of the Lib Dem's federal policy committee. I used to ...
Wednesday, 7 February 2018

How to know if services work - do they give good help or bad?

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The post first appeared on the Radix site... I was a little late last night and nearly missed the Nesta event in London to launch the re...
Friday, 2 February 2018

The unexpected return of fairies

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This post first appeared on the New Weather site... The year: 1991. The place: a Cornish country lane. An anonymous man is driving at spe...
Friday, 26 January 2018

It isn't public versus private, it is small versus big...

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Let me start with a story, which has to be a little obscure to protect the innocent. The government has a Voluntary Repatriation Scheme fo...
Thursday, 11 January 2018

Vindication at last! Thank you, National Audit Office

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It is a strange thing, vouchsafed to few of us, to find ourselves vindicated by the National Audit Office of all people. Yet I have been. ...