Geoff Mulgan

Oct 17, 2024 | civilserviceworld.com | Geoff Mulgan |Beckie Smith

Every government has to ask itself whether it has the skills to do what the public wants – to manage large projects, run complex welfare systems, tackle entrenched disadvantage or handle emergencies like pandemics. There’s often a gap between needs and capabilities, and this manifests in lots of ways: policy failures, botched projects, but also a slower drip of underperformance.

Oct 11, 2024 | ips-journal.eu | Geoff Mulgan

Hardly a week goes by without a new piece of misinformation circulating online, from the freshet of conspiracy theories unleashed by the attempt on former US President Donald Trump’s life to Elon Musk tweeting the far right’s false claim that the United Kingdom has a two-tier policing policy. Truth is under attack, and people know it. According to a recent global survey conducted by the United Nations, more than 85 per cent of respondents were worried about the impact of online disinformation.

Oct 3, 2024 | ukcolumn.substack.com | Martin Edwards |Geoff Mulgan

By Martin Edwards - 7th January 2017The British press have long had the tendency to sensationalise the mundane and, in relation to issues of national significance, either omit them entirely or report deliberately skewed half truths and untruths. Take, for example, the 12-page Daily Mail series of articles on the role of Sir David Bell and Julia Middleton's Common Purpose in relation to the Leveson Inquiry into the behaviour of certain segments of the British media.

Aug 28, 2024 | timeshighereducation.com | Geoff Mulgan

We are often told that we live in a post-truth era. An important wing of politics and the media now believes that truth is something to be created, not discovered: a question of personal choice. Social media is awash with misinformation and attempts to correct it are dismissed as partisan distortions. In this context, universities should be coming into their own as bastions of truth.

Aug 27, 2024 | bangkokpost.com | Geoff Mulgan

Hardly a week goes by without a new piece of misinformation circulating online, from the freshet of conspiracy theories unleashed by the attempt on former US president Donald Trump's life to Elon Musk tweeting the far right's false claim that the United Kingdom has a two-tier policing policy. Truth is under attack, and people know it. According to a recent global survey conducted by the United Nations, more than 85% of respondents were worried about the impact of online disinformation.