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Simon Parker

Simon Parker

The opportunities of devolution for the left

A new article makes a progressive case against devolving power. It is clear, cogent and strikingly weak.

4 min readApr 15, 2024

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Some readers might recall that I published the first half of this essay in the summer of 2020.

Conservative anarchism, self-organisation and the future of government It feels like a moment for redefinitions. Looking across the…

36 min readMar 10, 2023

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Things I believe about change

I haven’t blogged for ages. I’m a civil servant these days, which quite rightly limits what I can say in public. I’ve also been doing a…

7 min readNov 6, 2022

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Playing the meta game

Three ministers have gathered for dinner. They are eating happily when one of them detects the faint taste of poison in the wine. Their…

4 min readOct 13, 2020

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Conservative anarchism, self-organisation and the future of government

It feels like a moment for redefinitions. Looking across the global scene right now, we are seeing previously buried possibilities…

18 min readJun 22, 2020

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On optimism

Can you all, please, stop being so cheerful?

3 min readApr 29, 2020

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Nothing can change

I’ve tried to avoid writing about Dominic Cummings. He is clearly a brilliant campaigner, but intellectually he leaves me cold. The idea…

4 min readMar 3, 2020

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The decade of love and rage

Love and rage: three words often used as a sign-off to messages by Extinction Rebellion, but perhaps more than that, because it seems to…

3 min readDec 28, 2019

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Do we need a community power act?

Adam Lent, my excellent successor as director at NLGN, thinks we do. In a blog post today he sparked a really useful discussion about what…

4 min readNov 12, 2019

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A reading list for Catherine

I’ve been diving deep into a load of interesting new ideas recently. These mostly come from what we might call the Emerge scene, in…

2 min readOct 31, 2019

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Simon Parker

Simon Parker

Central government irregular. Ideas for everyone. Tend to start on twitter, write up raw drafts here, sometimes get published in respectable places.

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