Articles
Targets: just say no!
When four police forces rejected their Whitehall target regime, it was an Emperor's New Clothes moment for the whole of centralization (Guardian Comment is Free, June 2008).
Creating a National Wellness Service
The NHS requires a very different shape if it is going to prevent ill-health rather than pick up the pieces (Prince's Foundation for Integrated Health, June 2008).
A human agenda for public services
At last we may be moving away from the sterile public versus private debate, and onto something more relevant (Liberator, April 2008).
Can you count a better environment?
Why counting gets in the way of protecting the environment (Ecos, April 2007). Also follow up reply to the debate.
How long is a piece of string?
BBC broadcast about the evils of obsessive measurement (Off the Page, 2005).
Why we should be suspicious of the statistics about the massive rise in autism (New Statesman, 2003).
Facing up to the tyranny of numbers
Why counting too much shrinks the soul (Resurgence, 2001).
