Chris Davies
Complexity, politics, public policy and helping things be better. Welshman in south London.
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- "There is no successor theory of public administration to New Public Management." @jo3hill.bsky.social writing for @re-state.bsky.social Useful and timely provocation. Any thoughts? open.substack.com/pub/restate/...
- Strategic state, new public service, relational state, participatory governance, complexity informed realist evaluation - I have a book coming next year putting them all together into a "wellbeing state" paradigm. I can post links for the indivual pieces if you think ppl want to see them?
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- yup
- Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue
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- I'm glad you clarified. I wouldn't stand for Guy Goma slander
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- Just spotted Paul Gascoigne in Portcullis House, carrying fishing rods and chicken.
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- Had forgotten until reading @duncanrobinson.bsky.social’s peerless column that Peter Mandelson once publicly said Keir Starmer was too fat.
- As someone with a profound but unrepentant emdash addiction it is driving me mad seeing commenters yell “AI slop!!!” whenever there is even a single — anywhere in the copy.
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- Yes, I use double emdashes — mostly in formal writing — due to their utility. Note the American emdash—done like this without a space—is an abomination.
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- If you talk with the most down-to-earth, level-headed multi-millionaires, you see it taking form: So much invisible friction has been removed from their lives in ways great & small that they don't even see, so with best intentions they feel like they can still relate to common folks, but they can't.
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- Idunno why I wrote this whole thread when Pulp's "Common People" already summed it up so perfectly decades ago. "But if you called your Dad, he could stop it all."
- No doubt Starmer is feeling the same today
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- Quite impressed that from the date of my filling in a passport renewal to it landing on my passage floor was 10 days. That’s a bit of government that’s working quite well, tbh.
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- NGL this description of Bsky in Vulture cracked me up
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