We must fight back against stupid paperwork

Yesterday I was in Birmingham speaking at the Annual Conference of the Institute of Economic Development. I was talking about the kinds of economic shifts we need to make in a changing world and as part of that I discussed decentralisation and the need to remove the...

A way to skip the world war ahead

First published by Common Weal Elsewhere I have described what is happening in Israel/Palestine as an ‘Archduke Ferdinand moment’, a single event which reveals clearly the tensions lying underneath significant geopolitical change. Now I would like to...

The Bank of Friends and Family

Well I guess that whatever reason the current Chief Executive of the Scottish National Investment Bank was appointed, it wasn’t his communication skills. Al Denholm’s performance in front of the Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee of...

Scotland and the wellbeing con

A local authority gets the ‘public policy is all about the wellbeing economy now’ memo. That means it now needs to come up with something it can say it has done so that in turn government Ministers have something to say when quizzed on their progress on...

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