A fascinating contrast between @GoodwinMJ’s claim that Gove’s speech is “very interesting indeed” and evidence that only the Right is coming up with “interesting” ideas ... https://twitter.com/goodwinmj/status/1277358106331226112
... with @jillongovt’s view of whether there is anything truly interesting in the speech. https://twitter.com/jillongovt/status/1277354606633332738
Is the answer that the Franklin Roosevelt framing has worked as a rhetorical device, giving an interesting political spin to a set of ideas on civil service reform that have been around (across politics) for some time?
NB that I think the speech is interesting: but much of its interest lies in the *absence* of “sending power down” ideas and its side-swipes at processes and institutions of accountability.
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