Book review

A lobbyist’s job is to understand how legislators make their decisions. You want to know what makes them vote the way they do. If you are serious about your craft, you’ll read John W Kingdon’s work. For decades he has been the pre-eminent academic who gets how policy making, agenda setting and votes happen. In … Read more

If you are serious about public policy making, you’ll read Vaclav Smil. If you want to better understand the solutions for some of the most challenging issues, you’ll read his work. Smil is one of the most influential minds of today. Sadly,  most people have never bothered to read his publications. This Czech emigre, is … Read more

It was nice to join the book launch of ‘How the EU Institutions Work’ and ‘How to Work with the EU Institutions’ on 22 September. If you missed it, you can watch it below.     In these COVID-19 days, Zoom is the easiest way to bring people together.  I look forward to the return … Read more

People use chemicals every day.  We use synthetic (man-made) and natural chemicals. According to the BBC, my body is made up chemicals http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/the-making-of-me-and-you#/results/top To stay alive, your body is full of toxic arsenic, mercury, radioactive uranium, and the precious metals of silver and gold.  You also carry oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, calcium, phosphorous, potassium, chlorine, … Read more