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UK politics
fromwww.theguardian.com
23 hours ago

Here's the truth, Keir Starmer: Whitehall cannot solve the UK's urgent problems. Find a fast track | Peter Hyman and Morgan Wild

The British civil service requires radical reform into a dynamic, decentralised, and mission-driven state to better serve working people and tackle complex problems swiftly.
Design
fromMedium
1 week ago

Why 10,000 years of centralised innovation still fail (and what to build instead)

Decentralised systems with shared values, standards, and a coordinating nucleus replace centralised control to eliminate silos and enable continuous innovation.
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 weeks ago

France has a massive debt crisis. So why is it spending billions a year subsidising business? | Alexander Hurst

Despite years of denunciation from his left and far-right opponents that Macron has engaged in ultraneoliberalism, there hasn't been any. Not on a macro level, anyway, where both French government spending (57.3% of GDP) and tax receipts (51.4% of GDP) are among the highest in the world, including social spending, which outpaces any of its European neighbours. At the same time, it's impossible to have spent the past decade in France without encountering the widely shared perception and accusation that public services are in decline.
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