Transparency is the only way to improve public services
I was recently at a discussion about transparency in politics, and what that means for business (yes, my exciting life continues). It was all quite diverse and random but some themes did emerge....
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My supermarket can teach the government some relationship lessons
I recently wrote about the potential for crowd-sourcing as a useful and productive way for the government to engage further with voters. I’ve also recently suggested that a corollary for the...
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Coulson’s appointment should’ve been vetted by Parliament
For years we have been told that Parliament has been an increasingly irrelevant institution. The rise of supranational institutions, the free flowing tides of global capital and the ever increasing...
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Why good governance secures development
I’ve just got back from Project Umubano in Rwanda (more on the specifics another day). I was part of a team working with local NGOs and charities to build their skills and capacity. A view over Kigali...
View ArticleE-petitions are a good way to hold our politicians to account
The e-petitions site is back! Well, once it had recovered from the first day’s surge of interest… When the police stats website first went live, it too crashed under the weight of demand. I spoke to...
View ArticleA social approach to democracy
Internet campaigns websites have seen more publicity this year than ever before, with their numbers seemingly increasing as fast as their column inches. This month saw the government re-launch their...
View ArticleThe new Boundaries might be the best membership drive ever invented
I spent part of yesterday afternoon in Parliament (spotting, along the way, Floella Benjamin, which if you’re my age was pretty exciting!). I saw probably about 10 MPs in total, ALL of whom mentioned...
View ArticleThe politically Conservative case for employee ownership
Before the election one of the big policy gambits made by the Prime Minister was to drive throw the mutualisation of public services and to champion co-operatives. The Minister for the Cabinet Office,...
View ArticleOpening up data to give people what they want
I am shamefully late to this (catching up on articles from 2 weekends ago…) but this article by Ben Goldacre in the Observer encapsulates so much of why governments get stuck in actually DOING...
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The Royal Succession and the EU
Months ago, the Tory Reform Group invited George Eustice MP to come and talk to one of our regular policy suppers about his new European policy group. Entirely by accident, I have to confess, the event...
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