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Martin Stolliday

@martinstolliday.bsky.social

Manager, The Strand Group King’s College London

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Great that @fletchersimon.bsky.social, political advisor and former Chief of Staff to Mayor Ken Livingstone, could join our London government module for the first time last week.

Some serious insights into the mayoralty, alongside some excellent Trafalgar Square Pigeon discussion

21.10.2025 12:09 — 👍 3    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

Such a fantastic class and case study! I always enjoy the Tony Benn and Dennis Healey impressions.

15.10.2025 18:03 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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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

15.10.2025 11:26 — 👍 3    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 1
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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

15.10.2025 17:47 — 👍 2    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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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.

14.10.2025 14:07 — 👍 2    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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...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)

14.10.2025 09:44 — 👍 4    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

Such a fantastic module.

14.10.2025 11:23 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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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…

13.10.2025 13:51 — 👍 1    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
Douglas Alexander: in conversation

Douglas Alexander: in conversation

EVENT | Douglas Alexander: in conversation

The new Secretary of State for Scotland will discuss domestic and geopolitical challenges governments are facing with Catherine Macleod, former Special Adviser to Alistair Darling

➡️ docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

📅 15 Oct, 18:30
📍King's College London

25.09.2025 10:01 — 👍 1    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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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

22.09.2025 13:06 — 👍 4    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0
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📣 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

01.09.2025 10:07 — 👍 4    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
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08.08.2025 13:38 — 👍 1    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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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 👇🏽

www.kcl.ac.uk/study/postgr...

08.08.2025 11:08 — 👍 4    🔁 6    💬 2    📌 0
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Director’s Blog July 2025 - The Strand Group Professor Jon Davis 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

thestrandgroup.kcl.ac.uk/news-item/di...

28.07.2025 15:26 — 👍 6    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
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Director’s Blog July 2025 - The Strand Group Professor Jon Davis OBE

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

Excellent from @mlclem.bsky.social on the challenges ahead

01.07.2025 08:03 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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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

@bitebackpublishing.bsky.social

01.07.2025 07:52 — 👍 3    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 1
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Delighted to see ‘The Art of Delivery’ 📕 featured in @samfr.bsky.social hugely popular & insightful Substack ‘Comment Is Freed’ today

✍️ Read & subscribe open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/h...

📚 Get your copy, tell me what you 💭 www.bitebackpublishing.com/books/the-ar...

@bitebackpublishing.bsky.social

18.06.2025 14:02 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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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

19.06.2025 07:16 — 👍 3    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
This meant that Blair and his government were required to identify and adhere to a clear set of objectives.

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
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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

29.05.2025 09:04 — 👍 2    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0
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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

amzn.eu/d/6Lp832C

28.05.2025 18:00 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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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

@bitebackpublishing.bsky.social

27.05.2025 12:55 — 👍 5    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 1
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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

www.kcl.ac.uk/study/postgr...

27.05.2025 14:53 — 👍 2    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Joseph Nye obituary: Political scientist who conceived ‘soft power’ Paternalistic American who was valued and influenced politicians on both sides of the Atlantic, dies aged 88

Really interesting obituary of the great Prof Joe Nye: www.thetimes.com/uk/obituarie...

In 2012 he gave a superb lecture for us - ‘What is Ethical Foreign Policy Leadership?’: www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...

Events like these are central to our MA Government Studies: thestrandgroup.kcl.ac.uk

14.05.2025 11:36 — 👍 1    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

A fantastic opportunity to be part of an amazing programme

07.05.2025 11:17 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Great article citing the "What should the UK learn from 'Bidenomics'?" paper co-authored by @officialedballs.bsky.social discussed at Strand Group 74, events arm of MA Government Studies thestrandgroup.kcl.ac.uk/event/what-s...

Sign up to join the MA this autumn 👇🏽

www.kcl.ac.uk/study/postgr...

14.04.2025 12:57 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Sir Tony Blair speaks to King's postgraduate students Students on the MA Government Studies course heard from former Prime Minister Sir Tony Blair during their final class

Last week, MA Government Studies students had the chance to speak with Sir Tony Blair about his time as Prime Minister and the challenges facing the current government.

More about the discussion & the course ⬇️
www.kcl.ac.uk/news/sir-ton...

@thestrandgroup.bsky.social @policyatkings.bsky.social

07.04.2025 10:56 — 👍 6    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0
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Huge thank you to Sir Tony Blair for joining us to wrap up our inaugural teaching year

MA Government Studies

Join us this Autumn - places filling fast: thestrandgroup.kcl.ac.uk/ma-governmen...

04.04.2025 11:20 — 👍 6    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 1

A superb way to end the teaching year. Fantastic questions from our excellent student cohort.

05.04.2025 06:00 — 👍 0    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

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