In 1839 Thomas Carlyle said “the condition of the great body of people in a country is the condition of the country itself”, and yet 175 years later we still fail too many people with multiple, complex needs who are...
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Despite popular myth making by both its opponents and its allies, and the evidence of its record in government, the Labour party has not always been about a centralising, exclusively administrative approach to government. In many ways its origins are...
Giving a private seminar in Westminster this week Jon Trickett said:
On Monday, Ed Miliband said that the times we live in demand “a new culture in our public services. Not old-style, top-down central control, with users as passive recipients of...
You need to judge any contribution to debate about the future of public services by a ‘three Ps’ test.
The first P is power, and in his Hugo Young lecture Ed Miliband passed with flying colours. A Labour government would stand...
In the wake of Ed Miliband's foray into the ever-stormy waters of public service reform the analysis ranges from the inevitable Thatcher and Blair comparisons to meditations on how the speech represented either a "buried Fabianism" or that "dice are loaded...
Peter Kellner has written of late on how policies themselves do not necessarily have to be popular. They have to be believed. They have to be credible. The example given by Kellner was that the 50p tax announcement by Ed...