@jonmdavis.bsky.social
Professor of Government, King’s College London. OBE. ⚒️
As we come to the end of the academic year, I’d like to share some of the great work done by the Strand Group in 2024-25 with particular reference to the first year of the MA Government Studies
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Congratulations to @jonmdavis.bsky.social on the first successful year of the MA Govt Studies thestrandgroup.kcl.ac.uk/news-item/di...
26.07.2025 14:02 — 👍 5 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
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
15.07.2025 18:00 — 👍 6 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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.’
Great to talk to Caroline Wyatt on Labour governments & the trade unions (from 16:10)
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☀️ Tonight, our Summer Reception - kicking off with @bobbyduffy.bsky.social setting the scene and celebrating another year of progress
09.07.2025 18:05 — 👍 4 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
… followed by Lord Neil Kinnock reflecting on the urgent importance of truth, fact and objective analysis in an age of ‘tectonic change’, conspiracy, clickbait and lies…
09.07.2025 18:08 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
📣 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
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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
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📣 1 MONTH since THE ART OF DELIVERY PUBLISHED 🎉
Great reviews in 📰, BBC Radio 4 & 5 + biggest politics podcasts🎥
📕 in hands of decision-makers who can use to inform how to deliver now 🎯
Many ppl ✍️ have said hw fascinating & insightful they’ve found it. Thank you
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Great to see @jaheale.bsky.social recommend ‘The Art of Delivery’ in The Spectator as ‘one of the two most important British political books published this summer’
The 📕 reveals how to turn rhetoric into reality in government
✍️ www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-...
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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
Delighted to see ‘The Art of Delivery’ 📕 featured in @samfr.bsky.social hugely popular & insightful Substack ‘Comment Is Freed’ today
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📚 Get your copy, tell me what you 💭 www.bitebackpublishing.com/books/the-ar...
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Thank you @rentouljohn.bsky.social for showing how current govt can + is learning frm institutional memory of last govt that renewed our public services, New Labour under TB
My 📕 ‘The Art of Delivery’ tells this untold story. In large part thanks to Michael Barber📔
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Thank you Alastair Campbell for recommending my 📕‘The Art of Delivery’ to Rory Stewart on The Rest Is Politics
“It’s very, very readable.”
“It’s about how we matched process of the Spending Review to the work of the Delivery Unit and progress that was being made.”
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From the Commons Confidential newsletter: @mlclem.bsky.social on her book about Blair’s delivery unit, headed by Michael Barber
05.06.2025 08:34 — 👍 0 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
"The antidote to all of that populism is serious delivery."
Catch up on the launch of @mlclem.bsky.social's new book, "The Art of Delivery", with former head of the PM's Delivery Unit Sir Michael Barber and @jonmdavis.bsky.social
📣 If you couldn’t make ‘The Art of Delivery’ book launch with Sir Michael Barber @jonmdavis.bsky.social and me last week, you can watch it back here 🎥
Buy the 📕 and let me know what you think 💭 amzn.eu/d/i80bOXv
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📣 Huge thank you to Ed Balls for this endorsement of 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...
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Blair had to intervene to get Brown to spend more on the NHS.
One big and important difference is that in 1997 to 2001 Downing Street and the Treasury were frequently at odds. This made policy better than if they hadn’t been. There isn’t enough No 10/HMT friction now IMO.
29.05.2025 15:02 — 👍 28 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0Thank 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 📕
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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
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This meant that Blair and his government were required to identify and adhere to a clear set of objectives.
Timely new book by Michelle Clement, ‘The Art of Delivery’ on the Delivery Unit - the big innovation at the heart of what is as it stands the first and only Labour government to be elected to consecutive full terms of office.
29.05.2025 14:17 — 👍 26 🔁 9 💬 3 📌 0
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...
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A great privilege and joy to be at the launch of my colleague and friend Dr @mlclem.bsky.social ’s book ‘The Art of Delivery’
It’s a truly remarkable book by a remarkable historian
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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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📣 PUBLICATION DAY for my new book 🎉
‘The Art of Delivery: The Inside Story of How the Blair Government Transformed Britain’s Public Services’
It tells an as yet untold story of how transformative change was actually delivered - how a PM turned rhetoric into reality
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‘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*
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