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Full house this evening for our event with @strandgroup.bsky.social ✅

Secretary of State for Scotland Douglas Alexander is discussing his career and the current geopolitical challenges facing government with Catherine Macleod

Case study week on the 'Chancellors and the Treasury' module on @strandgroup.bsky.social MA Government Studies - Expert advisers @nickmacpherson.bsky.social and @officialedballs.bsky.social help prep students before they re-enact debates over the 1976 IMF crisis

Wonderful start to the 'Chancellors and the Treasury' module on @strandgroup.bsky.social MA Government Studies - BOE Deputy Governor Sir Dave Ramsden explained the big themes in Treasury history to a mixed class of @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social students and Treasury officials.

...and delighted to welcome Natan Doron, Mayoral Head of Policy at the GLA, to talk us through the challenges and opportunities faced by the capital today. Our students getting a crash course into what it's really like to govern one of the world's greatest cities (2/2)

All smiles as we're back underway with our 'London: Governing the Global City' module on @strandgroup.bsky.social
MA Government Studies - Prof Tony Travers delivering his masterful '2000 years of London history in 45 mins' lecture to kick off... (1/2)

The MA Government Studies team are delighted to be back in the classroom, teaching our second cohort. The programme goes from strength to strength, with more students than ever before participating in our unique expert-led courses.

Watch this space for the applications to open for next year…

In Conversation with Douglas Alexander MP - The Strand Group The seventy-eighth Strand Group event will take place on 15 October where Douglas Alexander, the Secretary of State for Scotland, will discuss the challenges and complexities governments are navigatin...

Join us on 15 October at 1830 for an in conversation event with Douglas Alexander the Secretary of State for Scotland.

To apply for tickets: thestrandgroup.kcl.ac.uk/event/in-con...

In partnership with @policyatkings.bsky.social

@kingscollegelondon.bsky.social

Keir Starmer wants to fix Britain. He’s still working out how. As Britain’s prime minister embarks on another No. 10 revamp, some officials are questioning the structures he created to show “delivery” to the public.

Delighted to share insights from my 📕 The Art of Delivery with @danbloom1.bsky.social for his deep dive @politico.eu piece on PM Starmer’s No10 machinery of govt changes

📰 www.politico.eu/article/keir...

@bitebackpublishing.bsky.social @strandgroup.bsky.social @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social

📣 Great to hear my book ‘The Art of Delivery’ recommended in @financialtimes.com podcast by @stephenkb.bsky.social

📕 available now, let me know 💭 amzn.eu/d/0T9SFSA

🎧 episode open.spotify.com/episode/3Q8t...

@bitebackpublishing.bsky.social @strandgroup.bsky.social @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social

Great to hear Prof @officialedballs.bsky.social describing to ex-Chancellor Kwarteng how history repeats itself in the @strandgroup.bsky.social 'Chancellors and the Treasury' MA class on latest political currency pod.

Sign up to join the MA this Autumn 👇🏽

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Very much enjoyed being part of this panel alongside Baroness Deborah Mattinson, Lord Neil Kinnock, Sir Mel Stride and Professor Bobby Duffy

Sharing reflections from my 📕 The Art of Delivery (@bitebackpublishing.bsky.social)

@strandgroup.bsky.social
@policyatkings.bsky.social

Delighted to read this excellent review of my book ‘The Art of Delivery’ by Lord Francis Maude @politicshome.bsky.social

‘Michelle Clement has produced a brilliant account of the creation of the No 10 Delivery Unit and the travails of the Blair government to implement its public service reforms.’

Lord Grade, Chair @ofcom.bsky.social begins @strandgroup.bsky.social lecture on Growth, Innovation and the Future of the Media

‘Without good regulation markets risk running wild. … Good regulation means being fit for the times.’

‘Modern regulators must do three things:
Engage, Enable, Evolve.’

Lord Grade on the clearly documented harms to children from online platforms “I don’t know how the tech leaders sleep at night. Maybe they just count the clicks” - key lecture at @strandgroup.bsky.social @policyatkings.bsky.social @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social

PM - President Trump announces higher tariffs on the EU and Mexico - BBC Sounds The EU warns it will take 'all necessary steps' to safeguard its interests.

Great to talk to Caroline Wyatt on Labour governments & the trade unions (from 16:10)

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

📣 Catch up: Fantastic to see my book ‘The Art of Delivery’ reviewed in @financialtimes.com by @stephenkb.bsky.social

📰 on.ft.com/3G1PoPn

📕 Buy the book and let me know what you think 💭 amzn.eu/d/615RqYr

@bitebackpublishing.bsky.social

Delighted to have written for @financialtimes.com on ‘Lessons for delivering change for a restless electorate’

Using research frm my new 📕 ‘The Art of Delivery: The Inside Story of How the Blair Government Transformed Britain’s Public Services’

✍️🔗 on.ft.com/3G2AKHG

@bitebackpublishing.bsky.social

Grateful to have been able to give Sir Tony Blair my book ‘The Art of Delivery’

It tells the untold story of how his government transformed Britain’s public services

Using 600,000 words of Sir Michael Barber’s unpublished diaries plus interviews with Cabinet ministers, SPADs and civil servants

📣 Thank you Ed Balls & George Osborne for having me on brilliant @polcurrency.bsky.social podcast to ask about delivery in govt

Ed is right - ‘The Art of Delivery’ 📕 shows how No10 and HMT working together effectively can galvanise the govt machine into action

🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/0J7D...

"it's about addressing a lack of institutional memory which can lead to a government being conducted in an ahistorical environment"

@strandgroup.bsky.social's @mlclem.bsky.social on her new book: The Art of Delivery

📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDKS...

📖 www.bitebackpublishing.com/books/the-ar...

Thank you @stephenkb.bsky.social for sharing excerpts from my new book ‘The Art of Delivery: The Inside Story of How the Blair Government Transformed Britain’s Public Services’

Available now 📕
www.bitebackpublishing.com/books/the-ar...

Thank you to all who came to my book launch for ‘The Art of Delivery’ with Sir Michael Barber @jonmdavis.bsky.social

Incredible to have such an engaged audience of 300 people, inc cabinet secretaries and students past & present @strandgroup.bsky.social

📕 www.bitebackpublishing.com/books/the-ar...

Lord Grade: Growth, Innovation and the Future of the Media - The Strand Group The seventy-seventh Strand Group event will take place on the 15 July where Lord Grade, the Chair of Ofcom, will give a lecture on 'Growth, Innovation and the Future of the Media'

Join us on 15 July when Lord Grade, chair @ofcom.bsky.social will give a lecture on 'Growth, Innovation and the Future of the Media'

To apply for tickets: thestrandgroup.kcl.ac.uk/event/lord-g...

@policyatkings.bsky.social @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social

Big thanks @matt-forde.bsky.social offering enthusiastic endorsement of MA Government Studies teaching @strandgroup.bsky.social

We chatted about how the MA brings in critical decision makers who were actually in the room to help us understand how government works

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Fantastic to be on BBC Radio 5 Live @mattchorley.bsky.social show earlier this week w Ryan Wain to talk about my new book ‘The Art of Delivery’

We discussed delivery challenges for government then and now

Listen back 🎧 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Pre-order 📕 amzn.eu/d/5t4BmZu

‘It sounds absolutely phenomenal.’
– @matt-forde.bsky.social on my 📕 ‘The Art of Delivery: The Inside Story of How the Blair Government Transformed Britain’s Public Services’

*Out tomorrow*
amzn.eu/d/1GQvqjC

@bitebackpublishing.bsky.social

Really enjoyed joining the brilliant @matt-forde.bsky.social on his ‘The Political Party’ podcast to chat about my new 📕‘The Art of Delivery’

Plus how PMs learn on the job and what it was like to see the McCartney and Jagger of 1970/80s politics…

Listen here 🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/65mB...

"...as Blair said after his time in Government it [the Delivery Unit] was more revolutionary than they realised at the time"

@strandgroup.bsky.social's @mlclem.bsky.social speaking to BBC radio 5 about her new book: The Art of Delivery

Info & book launch ➡️ thestrandgroup.kcl.ac.uk/event/book-l...

Government Studies The only course of its kind to go beyond teaching theory to apply an in-depth perspective of how the British state is run, taught by those within government.

Mid-career professional looking to better understand how government really works?

MA Government Studies is for you!

🗓️ Fits around work - all in-person teaching/tutorials on Thurs/Fridays
🎯 Choose to study full/part-time, or even one module at a time

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