by Tim Dickson | Nov 18, 2025 | Articles, Fifth Edition
The State of trust Sixteen months ago Keir Starmer said the fight for trust would be “the battle that defines our age.” The uphill challenge facing him and everyone working in the public sector was laid bare a year earlier in the 2023 OECD Trust in Government Survey,... 
by Tim Dickson | Jul 3, 2025 | Articles, Fourth Edition
Opportunities to adapt – and to improve lives In the private sector, ‘transformation’ consultants and chief executives of beleaguered companies often talk about ‘burning platforms’, dire situations they can turn to advantage by requiring obstructive employees and... 
by Tim Dickson | May 19, 2025 | Articles, Data, Tech and Innovation, Fourth Edition
Penny Endersby talks to Tim Dickson about her journey from specialist researcher to running the Met Office The days when specialists, notably economists, operated mostly in Whitehall silos and took a backseat to ‘generalists’ were recalled recently in Heywood... 
by Tim Dickson | Apr 9, 2025 | Articles, Interviews, Third Edition
Doing things differently with data Over the last three months the hue and cry around the size of the state, new ways of working, the need for more specialists and buzzwords like ‘performance’ and ‘accountability’ have reached a new crescendo. As they struggle to cope... 
by Tim Dickson | Dec 16, 2024 | Articles, Interviews, Second Edition
Since the Heywood Quarterly launched in June 2024, the pace of political change across the western world has been frenetic. This year has been the largest democratic exercise in world history, with four billion citizens making their voices heard. Voters in both the...
