Lecturer @thestrandgroup @KingsCollegeLon |Author ‘The Art of Delivery’ PM’s Delivery Unit & public service reform | Govt | Tech | Scottish & Pakistani heritage
An honour & joy to chair fascinating @thestrandgroup w/ @MichaelBarber9 & Tony Blair @InstituteGC to launch ‘Accomplishment: How To Achieve Ambitious and Challenging Things’.
Michael has created a tapestry of compelling case studies to explain accomplishment across many fields!
A wonderful climax to the 'Chancellors and the Treasury' @thestrandgroup module - many thanks to Dr Kwasi Kwarteng who spoke on 'Being Chancellor' during the infamous 2022 mini-budget offering students an unique insider's perspective
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Perfect end to our @thestrandgroup London governance module this year - across to City Hall for an excellent session with Deputy Mayor @howarddawber discussing the mayoralty today.
Some of the class then celebrated with a ‘flight’ on the cable car🚠 👋
Prof @edballs on the highly successful @polcurrency highlighting the modern day value of our Treasury case study teaching on the 1976 IMF crisis - how common ground was found between heavyweights Callaghan Healey Benn & Crosland
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‘The Art of Delivery’ is reviewed alongside Jonathan Simcock’s ‘The Delivery Gap’ and Nick Gibb and Robert Peal’s ‘Reforming Lessons’.
📣 Delighted to read this review of my book ‘The Art of Delivery’ by Ferdinand Mount in @TheTLS
✍️ ‘Seldom since Samuel Pepys have the comings and goings in Whitehall been so meticulously recorded...’
Full 📕 review 🔗 https://t.co/jPH282mhA3
@BitebackPub@thestrandgroup
'It is not true that the British system cannot deliver the goods – so long as the goods are deliverable.'
Ferdinand Mount: The British state fails when it innovates
https://t.co/W0dcJcJrFY
'It is not true that the British system cannot deliver the goods – so long as the goods are deliverable.'
Ferdinand Mount: The British state fails when it innovates
https://t.co/W0dcJcJrFY
Huge congratulations to our Visiting Professors Sir Michael Barber and Catherine MacLeod having been raised to the peerage.
Both are wonderful teachers on our MA Government studies programme:
https://t.co/miwMU48GXH
Delighted to welcome Lord Francis Maude to ‘History of the Civil Service’ class to reflect on his experience as a reforming minister during the Cameron government
Part of @thestrandgroup MA Government Studies 👇
https://t.co/3Ymhb1uZ0G
@policyatkings@KingsSSPP@KingsCollegeLon
Wonderful to have our @thestrandgroup MA students hosted by @40Leadenhall for a fascinating session with @_BusinessLDN's @muniya_b , discussing London's business community and its role in the capital's development
Great to have Councillor @clairekholland, Leader of Lambeth Council (one of @KingsCollegeLon's home boroughs) and chair of London Councils, join our @thestrandgroup London government module to share her insights into how London's boroughs operate today.
Great to hear Prof @edballs on @polcurrency recall the time former Chancellor Lord Lawson spoke to @thestrandgroup Treasury class. For over ten years we have held annual classes with a former Chancellor/Chief Secretary.
More on our MA Government Studies:
https://t.co/807LY7ksgv
Enjoyed talking about the sometimes bizarre history of No.10 Downing Street with Patrick here - alongside some great interviewees.
Well worth a listen - although not sure I’d quite go with ‘famous mad house’!
Wonderful as always to take our @thestrandgroup 'London: Governing the Global City' class to the Guildhall to discuss the ancient @cityoflondon's role in London, the UK and the world.
Not sure whose bright idea was it to take a class pic in the crypt... 💡😬
Employability - serving civil service and @thestrandgroup MA Government Studies student @KingsCollegeLon Tom gives our students a masterclass on the civil service fast stream @faststreamuk application process
Insightful session with Munira Mirza, former Deputy Mayor to Boris Johnson discussing the limits and the possibilities of London’s mayoralty for our @thestrandgroup London government module.
Case study week on the 'Chancellors and the Treasury' module on @thestrandgroup MA Government Studies - Expert advisers @nickmacpherson2@edballs@Mario_Pisani prep students before they re-enact the day UK left the ERM in Sep 1992, a historic and chaotic 24 hours