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What we need to hear

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16 Oct 2008

Matthew Taylor

I’ve been off to the Public Administration Select Committee to give evidence on good government. A strange affair. The committee chair Tony Wright asks intelligent questions and thinks deeply about the future of public administration. Other members of his committee seem intent on using the opportunity as a platform for their own personal agendas or vendettas.
A cold climate?

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15 Oct 2008

Matthew Taylor

So the European Union is already finding ways to wriggle away from its ambitious carbon emissions reduction target.
Wave of anomie

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14 Oct 2008

Matthew Taylor

The worst of the banking emergency appears to be over and the stock market may recover its losses but we have yet to see the long term effect on social norms of the credit crunch.
Brown's recovery

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10 Oct 2008

Matthew Taylor

It’s a risky prediction as I could be proved wrong very quickly but I suspect the next batch of opinion polls will show a further narrowing of the gap between Labour and the Conservatives. No one is thinking about politics right now - as I write the stock market is down more than 8% in its first hour’s trading – but has there ever been a year of fluctuating fortunes like it? In a year Gordon Brown has gone from what looked like an unassailable lead to the lowest poll ratings ever recorded by Labour only now to find himself (if my prediction is right) a few points behind with everything to play for.
Olympics - what sort of legacy?

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09 Oct 2008

Matthew Taylor

To a breakfast hosted by Editorial Intelligence to discuss the legacy of the 2012 Olympic Games. From which I drew three conclusions:
Have we had enough?

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08 Oct 2008

Matthew Taylor

We had a fine AGM last night and a great speech from Gerry Acher, who applied his long standing engagement in corporate responsibility to today’s remarkable circumstances.
The RSA AGM 2008

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07 Oct 2008

Matthew Taylor

This evening we are holding the RSA AGM 2008. It’s an opportunity to stand back and look where the RSA has got to and reflect on what we have learnt.
As the stock market bombs again

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06 Oct 2008

Matthew Taylor

As the stock market bombs again – for millions of people their next pensions statement will be grim reading – the search for culprits continues. Will Hutton, one of the few economists who can credibly claim to have warned us what was coming, yesterday described what he sees as a toxic mix of free market ideology and weak global regulation http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/oct/05/banks.marketturmoil.
What has become of society?

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03 Oct 2008

Matthew Taylor

I am just preparing to write the final summary chapter for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation social evils project (see earlier blogs for further discussions). So, having read the thoughts of figures as diverse as Ferdinand Mount, A C Grayling, and Zygmunt Bauman, with such an array of perspectives, I was surprised to see that one theme runs powerfully through them all: what has become of society?
Gordon Brown's masterstroke

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03 Oct 2008

Matthew Taylor

I got back from Wiltshire all ready to write abut what a masterstroke I thought Gordon Brown has pulled off bringing back Peter Mandelson (clever politics and good substance given that Peter was a very well respected Secretary of State in his previous tenure at DTI and now has all his European experience).

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What we need to hear

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As the stock market bombs again

What has become of society?

Gordon Brown's masterstroke

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