Pragmatist

It's been a difficult month to finish this post. Every day another dollop of decrepitude is revealed amongst our rotting institutio...

Dog eat dog Last night I found myself in front of "Roundhead or Cavalier: Which One Are You?" , a sort of 'Dummies Guide...

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

Vote now for which 5 policies that will form the Power 2010 Pledge . I voted for: 1. a fully elected upper house; 2. fixed term Parli...

Isn't it reassuring to see the piggies back from yet more holiday, fighting every effort to have their snouts hauled out of the trough ...

There are great efforts to encourage open government using the latest technology - particularly in the US and the UK, judging by this Googl...

To clear their desks ahead of the summer (and clutter ours to no useful purpose), UK officials responsible for Busine...

They've been desperately downing the Kool Aid in Downing Street, those who are left. No more polite chat while queuing for the tea urn ...

Over on Lords of the Blog we've been debating whether Constitutional reform is the answer to our Parliamentary woes. "Lordnorton...

I've just seen some patronising rubbish in the Spectator about concern over MP's expenses being overkill and somehow bad for the Br...

It's been a mad week, with my spare time absorbed by an article on the behavioural targeting of internet advertising and responding to...

Well, here we are in '09, the last of the Noughties: a fitting epithet for a decade of both reckless abandon and total collapse on the f...

For those interested in keeping regulation to a bare minimum, like BERR (yeah, right), here's a little gem from the Office of the Leader...

Thanks to Blackbeltjones I recently had the privilege of discussing the Future of Money as part of a programme at the Royal College of Art ...

The European Commission's plans to regulate to create cross-border consumer markets will only limit innovation and growth. Faciliating s...

Simon Gleeson of Clifford Chance has written a very concerning overview of the shortcomings in the Financial Services Authority’s review o...

A pragmatist is simply someone who acts in an informed way to control his or her personal environment, using a combination of theory and ...