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Author: David Boyle

Blog The Economics Reformation 

We can still bring high streets back to life…

17th December 202020th December 2020 David Boyle 1 Comment clone towns, high streets, local economics

By David Boyle, Lindsay Mackie and Andrew Simms “We created 400 clone towns nobody loves. We shouldn’t get upset –

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Bye-bye Kier Group, and Serco, G4S etc…

9th November 202027th January 2021 David Boyle 0 Comments carillion, outsourcing, privatisation, randox

Outsourcing and privatisation died at 15:18 on Wednesday 4 November 2020. Or thereabouts. That was of course a misquotation of

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It is time to save the NHS from tickbox

27th August 202025th August 2020 David Boyle 0 Comments bureaucracy, healthcare, NHS, tickbox

The tickbox phenomenon, which I have been writing about for most of this year, seems finally to have reached its

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Munich, ‘good Germans’ and the dangers of othering your opponents

23rd July 20203rd August 2020 David Boyle 0 Comments gerngross, munich, nazis, othering

Rupprecht Gerngross is not a household name, even among historians of World War II, though he led what may have

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How to dodge the next wave of ghost towns

8th June 20208th June 2020 David Boyle 0 Comments COVID-19, ghost towns, time banks, town centres

Bernie Ward is a friend mine, but she is also something of a heroine. For six thrilling years, she led

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Blog Open Public Media 

The BBC’s Wartime Hero

5th March 20206th March 2020 David Boyle 0 Comments BBC, media, Public service broadcasting

Noel Newsome took over the BBC European Service on the day that the Nazis invaded Poland, on 1 September 1939.

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The great debate: checklists versus tickbox

22nd January 202023rd January 2020 David Boyle 0 Comments checklists, gawande, tickbox

I have just in the last few days published a book on the much-derided tickbox culture (it is called Tickbox).

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Why the communities problem hasn’t been solved

22nd September 201922nd September 2019 David Boyle 0 Comments co-production, comunity shares

Last week, I found myself talking to one of the key experts in the UK on about community share offerings.

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How to avoid getting a homegrown UK Milosovic

14th August 201922nd August 2019 David Boyle 1 Comment kashmir, subsidiarity, Trump

Earlier this month, the Indian government ended the devolved powers arrangement they had with Indian-administered Kashmir. As I write, I

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A new economics is emerging – but not from the traditional left

28th June 201929th June 2019 David Boyle 1 Comment banks, Boris

I had to take an astonished breath when Boris Johnson explained how committed he was to business – so committed,

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