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

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

📣 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

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 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...

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...

Congratulations to @jonmdavis.bsky.social on the first successful year of the MA Govt Studies thestrandgroup.kcl.ac.uk/news-item/di...

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

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

☀️ Tonight, our Summer Reception - kicking off with @bobbyduffy.bsky.social setting the scene and celebrating another year of progress

… 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…

📣 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

📣 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 @bitebackpublishing.bsky.social

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-... @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

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

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📔 @bitebackpublishing.bsky.social

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.” @bitebackpublishing.bsky.social

From the Commons Confidential newsletter: ⁦‪@mlclem.bsky.social on her book about Blair’s delivery unit, headed by ⁦‪Michael Barber

"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 @strandgroup.bsky.social @policyatkings.bsky.social @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social

📣 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... @bitebackpublishing.bsky.social

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.

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...

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.

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

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

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...

📣 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

‘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...

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

Find out more about the book, which tells the story of the Prime Minister’s Delivery Unit, led by Barber, and provides a human account of what it takes to effect change from behind the famous black door of 10 Downing St ➡️ www.bitebackpublishing.com/books/the-ar...

EVENT: Join @strandgroup.bsky.social's @mlclem.bsky.social next week for the launch of her new book, "The Art of Delivery: The Inside Story of How the Blair Government Transformed Britain’s Public Services". She'll be joined by Sir Michael Barber, whose unpublished private diaries informed the book

Thank you to former Cabinet Secretary, Simon Case for this endorsement of my new book 📕 The Art of Delivery: The Inside Story of How the Blair Government Transformed Britain’s Public Services @bitebackpublishing.bsky.social Out next week. Pre-order here 📚 amzn.eu/d/dRRTDrw

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

It was great to give a talk to nearly *400 civil servants*, as part of the Open Innovation Team’s speaker series based on my forthcoming book - ‘The Art of Delivery: The Inside Story of How the Blair Government Transformed Britain’s Public Services’ Available to pre-order 📕 amzn.eu/d/imzS3mv

Read Mario Pisani's lecture 'Wars, fires and pandemics: how events have shaped 350 years of Treasury buildings' delivered in HM Treasury & chaired by Permanent Secretary James Bowler thestrandgroup.kcl.ac.uk/event/wars-f... Join MA Government Studies 2025/26: www.kcl.ac.uk/study/postgr...

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

Grateful for this endorsement from Baroness Sally Morgan for my book, which comes out next week! The Art of Delivery: The Inside Story of How the Blair Government Transformed Britain’s Public Services @bitebackpublishing.bsky.social Pre-order 📚 amzn.eu/d/dRRTDrw

My book is out next week Proud to be sharing endorsements I’ve received, starting with the great Professor the Lord Peter Hennessy The Art of Delivery: The Inside Story of How the Blair Government Transformed Britain’s Public Services Pre-order here📕 amzn.eu/d/dRRTDrw

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