An area that was hotly debated before the election but so far has not been seriously addressed through the campaign is the issue of social care. The lack of consensus…
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I have written that we often act without a command of all the facts. This is quite natural. Our ancestors on the African savanna may have had to make split…
Last time I wrote about our bounded rationality. In just a few weeks, somewhere between three or four out of every five people are likely to take the trouble to…
TCC were represented last week at the UK Public Health Association (UKPHA) Forum held by the seaside in Bournemouth last week. The Marmot Review, the General Election, and the Economic…
I am grateful for the opportunity to write a regular Guest Blog for TCC. Over the coming weeks and months, I want to have a look at some of the…
Local Government Reputation is important. How a local authority handles an emergency planning issue, such as a fire at a block of flats it owns, can impact on public perception…
Reports that the “worried well” could account for up to almost a fifth of GP appointments costing up to £2 billion annually, may lead to some debate as to what…
A recently published Electoral Commission report on the accuracy of the electoral register indicates a significant under under-representation of people: There are 3.5 million people missing from the register in…
A book we have been reading a lot recently is the author Dan Pink’s new book Drive. Indeed ‘Tipping Point’ author Malcolm Gladwell has himself recently endorsed the book. In…
We are pleased to report that Professor Jeff French will writing a number of postings for this Blog in the coming months. He will be covering a wide range of…