A cautionary tale: big government inquiries, scandals and learning lessons
We are in an age when big government matters ever more – to pandemics, climate, inequality and more. If we’re to avoid a generation of disappointments, we need to address the (sometimes boring?) question of how government can work better as well as what it needs to do, the plumbing as well as the grand designs. I recently gave evidence to a public inquiry that shone a bright light on the realities of how governments engage with technology and reform. This was the inquiry int