Andi Fugard

Hi

Interesting paper by Paul Cairney (2025) on the Westminster Model (WM) of policymaking - why it's obviously wrong but still useful when pondering what needs to be tweaked to help it match reality.

Couple of quotes and open access link over here: https://andifugard.info/the-westminster-model-and-why-its-useful-even-though-its-wrong/

One of my fav scenes in #TheNightManager

Adam: Tell me, how did you get involved in this sort of thing?

Basil: Oh. Right. University.

Adam: Yeah?

Basil: Recruited by a handsome tutor. Oh, God.

Adam: Did you not think twice, no?

Basil: Not for a second. My therapist would say – if I hadn’t told her I was a dentist – that I am the product of an immigrant family, cursed with a compulsion to impress the natives.

Adam: [laughs] Cheers to that.