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A little while ago I joined Unite the Union, community branch.This is a new development, a first for any union I think, and its based on the changing nature of jobs and work. Unions are still mostly workplace based, but if you are moving in and out of jobs, don't have...

Back in the 1940s, the great American theorist of 'total quality, W. Edwards Deming warned that assembly lines, in themselves, were not efficient at all. This is rather an important lesson, given that our public services are being re-designed by people who think that...

Why would anyone start another think-tank? It is a reasonable question.  The centres of the world’s greatest cities are now heaving with think-tanks, full of young men in pressed blue shirts and young women juggling with PowerPoint presentations. The problem is that...

I've been writing about the Post Office  and Royal Mail for years. Sometimes I get tired of repeating the reasons why they matter so immensely to our public life but I've drunk some coffee and am chewing on the barley sugar ; should work. Rage is though a better kick...