The world is run by the people who show up, so the (variously attributed) saying goes. It helps if you've received an invite though. Which organisations were and were not invited to attend today's 'summit meeting' on the NHS reforms is indicative of how most governments try to…
We're beginning to think about what our website should look like. This development blog - nice and clean though it is (thanks WordPress) - isn't our proper website of course, just our temporary home. But it's got us thinking about think…
Fairly or unfairly, a certain type of personality comes to mind when you think about think tanks. But what about the people who aren't always the first to hold up their hands - shouldn't they also have a voice in…
/ November 29, 2014 at 8:39 PM
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It has become cool to act as if ‘political correctness’ is some kind of cultural oppression, and to elevate those who challenge it as subversive, radical, fresh-thinkers. This is part of the attractiveness of parties like UKIP, presenting themselves as…
Discussions about consultation often focus on methods and means, but of course there's a broader social context to engagement. Declining trust in political institutions and weakening identification with the mainstream political parties threaten to undermine efforts to engage people in…
/ June 12, 2012 at 8:31 PM
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This is the seventh in a series of posts on ‘Ten reasons why we need a new approach to developing social policy’, originally published in 2012. The first post in the series can be found here, the second here, the third here, the fourth…
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