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‘I have been a magistrate for over 30 years and feel like I haven’t made any difference’ said a woman in her 70s to whom I was talking on Sunday. She described the context for her despair. A likable youngster sucked into hard drugs; … Continue readingGetting the private sector to deliver social value to the taxpayer
I am reading East West Street by Philippe Sands, the human rights barrister. In this powerful book he describes his journey to discover how his grandparents, Ukrainian Jews, evaded capture while 70 of their close family all died in the Holocaust after years of rising … Continue readingHatred is on the march
The current Brexit crisis is grave and it also has dangerous side-effects. While the parliamentary fever rages other maladies are getting neglected in the UK. These are problems that Charles Handy once compared with slowly heating a frog in water. The frog doesn’t recognise, until … Continue readingThe social care crisis deepens
It becomes ever clearer that both major parties in the UK are irreconcilably split on Brexit. It is the worst peacetime political crisis of for over a century. What is the answer? It is to move , for a time, beyond party politics, … Continue readingBrexit and resignations
So (per this Guardian article) in the year of the NHS’ 70th birthday £20bn will be added to budgets. At the same time spending per head on prevention continues its decline. Programs tackling smoking, poor diet and alcohol address will have fallen by 23.5% … Continue readingGiving with one hand…
Many years ago, I worked in paper manufacturing. I vividly remember the day I was told that we, as 70 managers, had the opportunity to buy the business. But then I discovered that it had all been done in a ‘them-and-us’ way. A colleague … Continue readingEmployee ownership