Nick Clegg has gone on the attack. His target is the London Borough of Barnet’s easyCouncil model of service provision.
There are a number of ways of portraying Barnet’s idea, but I’ve not seen many that appear to be very kind. As a Barnet resident who has to use Ryanair in his line of work, I [...]
Posts Tagged ‘cognitive dissonance’
Fewer people agree with you than you think
Being a politician is a good deal harder than most of us realise. Recent posts here about cognitive polyphasia remind me that being a politician involves squaring a number of unsquareable circles. Here’s the RSA’s Matthew Taylor on cognitive dissonance and the rose coloured mirror. People – the voters (trans: you and I) don’t recognise [...]
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