by Peter McDonald | Jun 2, 2025 | Articles, Fourth Edition, Interviews, Leadership and Reflections, The Top Articles of 2025
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... 
by Victor Dominello | May 27, 2025 | Articles, Data, Tech and Innovation, Delivery, Fourth Edition, International Perspectives
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... 
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 Kathy Hall and Gus O'Donnell | Mar 31, 2025 | Articles, Data, Tech and Innovation, International Perspectives, The Top Articles of 2025, Third Edition
Gus O’Donnell and Kathy Hall review what the latest Blavatnik Index has to show us about comparative strengths and weaknesses Sir Chris Wormald, the new Cabinet Secretary, told Parliament earlier this year that great policymakers are “self-confident enough to... 
by Ian Diamond | Mar 24, 2025 | Articles, Data, Tech and Innovation, Third Edition
Ian Diamond explains why UK policymakers need to understand the significance of recent trends The components of population growth have been changing faster than at any time in my 45 years of working on population data. For example, people’s expectations of how...
