Boris Johnson has announced a UK inquiry into COVID-19 to start in 2022, a parallel one is being planned in Scotland, and many more will...

This is a piece run by the Conversation - looking at how we think of risk, before, during and after the pandemic Life is risky and tends...

When I was younger I was often impressed with people who could speak confidently, in sweeping, quite abstract terms about big questions....

I was committed to write a paper for the recent Progressive Governance Summit that brought together leaders like Justin Trudeau, Helle...

The most powerful clique in the UK at the moment are linked to the Spectator magazine. They congregate around it, and the Telegraph, and...

I've been working over the last year on a new framework for public finance - helping it to cope with long-term tasks, such as education,...

I've been working quite a bit over the last few years on applying collective intelligence methods to global challenges, partly through...

The COVID-19 crisis has seriously damaged mental health all over the world. A high price has been paid by many children who’ve missed...

This is a boring blog. You can jump a few paragraphs down to the punchline if you like (and the update). It's about the remarkable,...

This draft paper describes methods for understanding how vital everyday systems work, and how they could work better, through improved...

This is my blog introducing the new International Public Policy Observatory on COVID: https://medium.com/policy-postings/putting-knowledg...

My new blog on what philanthropy could be doing differently is published in Alliance: https://www.alliancemagazine.org/blog/fixing-the-pl...

This week brings the publication of an interesting new collection, website and programme - creativityculturecapital - which looks at...

HOW GOVERNMENTS CAN - AND SHOULD - STEER THEIR SOCIETIES Can a society be steered? Should governments even try to do that? Or should they...

Should the social sciences only analyse the past and present? Or should they also try to help design the future? The recently created New...

The tax relationship lies at the core of politics. Getting it right unlocks possibilities of all kinds. Getting it wrong creates...

Achieving serious reductions in carbon emissions is arguably the greatest engineering challenge of the century. It requires changes to...

Here I suggest a brief meta-manifesto: principles for reform and action that should now apply to many, if not most, areas of government...

Britain was the first country to industrialise and then became the first industrial country to become post-industrial, its economy ever...

Every country in the world struggles with the same problem: how to coordinate and align the actions of different tiers of government –...