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Is Blending Hard and Soft Power the UK’s Secret ‘Superpower’?
Catriona Laing describes how we can learn from the thinking and actions of Joseph Nye and Jeremy Heywood In an age when hard power seems to be in the ascendancy, soft power might feel like the diplomatic equivalent of handwritten letters – elegant but outdated. And...
In Conversation With… Helen MacNamara
In this edited summary of an extensive discussion in Spring 2025, Peter McDonald talks to one of Whitehall’s most senior civil servants of the last 15 years about the lessons she took from being at the centre of government, and having a ringside seat during Brexit and...
The Art of Horizontal Government
True digital transformation requires reimagining the citizen experience from scratch, argues Victor Dominello, CEO of the Future Government Institute and a former New South Wales Minister for Customer Service. Editor’s Note: Across the world, governments are...
Science and Scientists to the fore….
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...