by William Tate | 19 June 2018 | blog material
Every day, UK newspapers are full of stories about Brexit, and rightly so – this is a vitally important matter. But the political discourse is stranded. Voting doesn’t deliver a clear or satisfactory conclusion or bring forward movement. Something different is needed....
by William Tate | 12 June 2018 | blog material
Just a short newsletter this time – though there is no shortage of stories about leadership in the world right now. Donald Trump is again centre stage – at the G7 meeting in Quebec of leaders of the world’s seven largest advanced economies, or meeting...
by William Tate | 4 June 2018 | blog material
Public inquiries and reviews Today is highly significant. It marks the first day of the formal proceedings of the Grenfell Tower Inquiry, following the initial ‘commemoration hearings’. It’s encouraging to see that searching investigations at national level seem to be...
by William Tate | 20 May 2018 | blog material
You may not have heard of the Russian émigré Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum (1905 – 1982). Better known by her pen name as a novelist and New York-based political philosopher, Ayn Rand remains somewhat marginal. But in today’s political climate, on both sides of the...
by William Tate | 4 May 2018 | blog material
It was a bad week at the office for UK Home Secretary Amber Rudd. After a few torrid days of being questioned and criticised she resigned. She had faced public outrage for overseeing a gross miscarriage of immigration justice that had been seething over months, even...
by William Tate | 1 May 2018 | blog material
Targets spell trouble, as the UK’s Home Secretary Amber Rudd has discovered. Targets are a popular management tool in many organisations. They are hard-wired into the hierarchically dominant scientific management model (long out of date in the face of the new sciences...
