When lexicographer Dr Samuel Johnson was asked, ‘What is poetry?’ he replied, ‘It is easier to say what it is not’. So with governance: when governance is confident and competent, the organisation it oversees flows smoothly. When governance falters, the reverberations are quickly felt – and tend to attract adverse publicity in the blink of an eye.
Roy Blatchford explores the dynamic partnership of those who govern and those who are governed.
