by Various Authors | Dec 17, 2025 | Articles, Book Reviews
Heywood Quarterly contributors share their recommendations for 2026 With 2025 coming to a close, we asked former contributors and members of our team to reflect on books (recently published and not-so-recently published) that they have found entertaining or... 
by Andrew Bailey | Nov 4, 2025 | Articles, Book Reviews, Fifth Edition, Reviews
Andrew Bailey reviews books challenging our response to Covid and our alleged neglect of the future To this day I can vividly recall my first meeting with Jeremy Heywood over lunch at the IMF staff canteen in Washington DC in the late 1980s. Jeremy struck me then, and... 
by James Plunkett | Mar 5, 2025 | Articles, Book Reviews, Data, Tech and Innovation, Third Edition
James Plunkett reviews Platformland: An anatomy of next-generation public services, by Richard Pope, 2024 Everyone appreciates the power of digital technologies to improve public services. Yet, as the new Government realises, much of that opportunity remains... 
by Donald Marshall | Dec 3, 2024 | Articles, Book Reviews, Second Edition
Donald Marshall reviews The Unaccountability Machine: Why Big Machines Make Terrible Decisions, and How the World Lost its Mind by Dan Davies Dan Davies’ book opens with a memorable, and horrifying, story. In 1999 a shipment of 440 squirrels arrived at... 
by Peter Cardwell | Nov 18, 2024 | Articles, Book Reviews, Reviews, Second Edition
Peter Cardwell reviews Tales Of The Unelected by Dan Corry Most senior officials in Whitehall and beyond have some understanding of what special advisers (SpAds) actually do – but more junior civil servants often see them as a remote or alien species. Myths...
