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End of regime – ‘the most likely outcome is disappointment’

DEI – what’s in a name, or underneath it?

Trump's DOGE as Venetian doge?

Trump's appointments: Driving deviancy and decency down – and out?

Control – will Trump, will America, be in it or out of it?

For America, a new ‘golden age’, or a gilded one?

Words spoken with a snarl – ‘fascism’, ‘progressivism’

Of ‘somewhere’, ‘anywhere’, hillbillies and home

‘Doublethink’ and freedom – Nineteen Eighty-Four in 2024

Are zombie directors a worry, a passing fad, something that needs regulation?

He has a ‘presence’ you cannot ignore – and the absence of substance?

The erosion of ‘institutional guardrails’

Forget ‘good’ corporate governance. What’s ‘good enough'?

Grenfell – catastrophic governance at many levels

Who cares? Ethics and ‘caring’ in the boardroom

The state of states (2): Central governance or ‘subsidiarity’? States' rights and wrongs

The state of states (1): An administrative state or a ‘deep’ one? Project 2025

How shareholder interests diverge and unite – and confuse

Of ‘crooked timbers’ – and crooks: Part 3, global governance

If you don’t say what you mean, do you mean what you don’t say?

‘Gish galloping’ to victory – and to governing again?

Day of jackals – Is the corporate governance pendulum swinging back to managers?

And in Britain the votes are in …

Two Supremely unhappy outcomes for governance, public and corporate

Of ‘crooked timbers’ – and crooks: Part 2, corporate governance

Remember January 6 (1929 ... and 2021): dictatorship by ‘auto-coup’

Of ‘crooked timbers’ – and crooks: Part 1, political governance

Make love, not law – lawfare as warfare, or as unfair?

And the Trump conviction …

Higher? Education?

Fraud and audit – not quite toxin and antidote

Duality by the back door? European supervisory boards face attack

Loyalty – to country and corporation – and what it means

On the rule of law, corporate shenanigans, and political governance

Fools all? Checks, balances, and the separation of person from office

Guarding the guardians, or whipping oneself?

A victory? Climate, rights, and international law

The Post Office, yet again! Of professions, brakes and accelerators

On bullshit, artistry, and governing (Trump Media version)

Are zombies taking charge of governance?

Does a company care, ‘morally’? Do investors care if they do?

Just oversight? SEC rules on climate disclosure

‘Ditch Trump’ – meaning what, for whom?

Post Office (again) – the fudge thickens

Membership in (un)civil societies – governing through members and with ‘strangers’

February 17, 2024

‘Showmanship has eclipsed even simple governance’ – the meaning of membership

Codifying corporate governance – where are the limits to limiting risk?

Directors and their decisions on the threshold

Corporate governance – advances or retreats?

Governing VW [not like that]

What’s a government?

Governing the governors [not like that]

The experience of ‘ownership’ at charity boards

Self or other? Board evaluation choices

Art – in corporate governance?

A ‘new corporate landscape’?

Governing corporations with ‘strangers’

A pragmatist case …

Heroes, cynicism, irony and hope