Pragmatist

To help a friend, I was searching for a better image of the 'change curve' than the one I first used here in 2009.  Back then th...

The patient failed to respond. Faith in our institutions finally died this week after a long illness . Doctors amputated a banker , beg...

Ever since protesters were forced by police to retreat from the London Stock Exchange to occupy St Paul's Churchyard , I've been...

Much is being written about Occupy Wall Street and similar expressions of mass dissatisfaction about our financial system. In particula...

Retail bankers always fiercely resist change. I guess that's because they've always had to follow the manual. Unless the manual chan...

The decision of the Transport Secretary not to phase out horse-drawn vehicles in the UK over the next 7 years has been hailed as a ...

Cutting the Gordian knot Talk about Zeitgeist - last Saturday morning I was in Porto, reading about the Greek crisis in The Economist . ...

Change Curve I've never really understood strikes. And, given the timing of the current round in the UK , I suspect those who go on s...

Bank I saw that Philip Stephens of the FT reckons the Independent Commission on Banking has let the banks off the hook . I'm not so...

I was recently invited by 38 Degrees ("people. power. change.") to email my MP to save the NHS . Previously, I was told the BBC n...

McKinsey Quarterly , the online journal of McKinsey , says "five crucibles for change will restructure the world economy", requiri...

Too late, we've learned that senior civil servants turned state's evidence on their New Labour masters, marking an audit trail with...

At last we have a new government and a Coalition Agreement , and a new cabinet . Are they listening ? So far, so good. Here's a summary ...

Having limped in first over the electoral finishing line, and needing support to govern, the Tories have been understandably meek in setting...

In many ways the UK general election has not gone the way anyone wanted. Sure, we have a hung Parliament , 149 MPs from the last scandal-...

In Part 1 , I suggested that to properly understand our motives at the ballot box the election narrative needs to be told from the bottom-up...

As someone who's been involved at one bleeding edge or other of retail innovation for over a decade, I flinch when anyone mentions the w...

Gordon Brown's exchanges with a woman from Rochdale today are emblematic of both the decline in faith in our institutions and the root...

As a lawyer, maybe I ought not to see risk as a positive force, but I do. If I did not, I would never have ridden a bicycle, horse or motorc...

People are asking about how they might vote 'for' a hung Parliament . Well Tactical Voting suggests the constituencies between whic...