Dear Sir
Simon Jenkins (4 April 2008) exposes the Achilles heel of all the proposed eco-towns: transport. But he is a trifle hard on the motives of the original proponents of the garden cities and new towns. Relieving the squalid, densely packed, inner city slums by providing houses in new settlements, with gardens, in which people […]

Britain’s Liberal Democrat History Group provoked a mid-summer controversy with its search for the greatest British Liberal of all time. Its short list, to be voted on at the party’s annual conference in September, consisted of William Ewart Gladstone, David Lloyd George, John Stuart Mill and John Maynard Keynes. The front runner for most of […]

Keynote address to OpRisk Europe Conference, 21 March, London:

All risk is subjective. “Risk” is a word that refers to the future, and that exists only in the imagination.
Risk management involves speculating about this future, about things that could go wrong, and about ways of preventing them.
In recent years, in the public sector and throughout the […]