Future State

The Centre for the Edge

A new initiative to help public sector leaders support emerging alternatives

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Pride in Place. Yes, but how?

The details will make all the difference

Sep 28 • 

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Announcing Kinship Works

An alliance for a human alternative

Sep 23 • 

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What does digital-era healthcare really mean?

A long read on the NHS, the 10 Year Plan, and what it would take to unstick the system

Sep 17 • 

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August 2025

The other special relationship

On public service reform in the UK and Australia

Aug 19 • 

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July 2025

How to save bureaucracy from itself

Seven ways to make big institutions less sclerotic

Jul 11 • 

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June 2025

Seeing like a place

Place-based work can be smarter and less bureaucratic, but can it rise to the political moment?

Jun 27 • 

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Quietly radical, in the right direction

Watching the Spending Review from a distance

Jun 12 • 

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May 2025

How would we govern if we took community seriously?

Recently I was asked to write an essay for the 10 year anniversary of Power to Change, an initiative funded by the National Lottery Community Fund to…

May 23 • 

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Neighbourhoods as engines of change

On the need for bridges from the edges to the centre

May 9 • 

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April 2025

The energy at the edges

The system is dying from the middle, but there’s vitality at the periphery

Apr 16 • 

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January 2025

Are Twitter and democracy compatible?

Maybe not as currently governed

Jan 7 • 

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