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

I recently saw a great talk by the columnist and author Thomas Friedman at the OECD. He was clear and engaging, and had some nice messages, mainly based on advice he gave his daughters – how to think like an immigrant without assumptions or entitlement; the virtues of curiosity and passion over IQ; staying fresh and thinking entrepreneurially. He also talked about how he had learned to see phenomena (like the Syrian civil war) through the triple lens of nature, business and b