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False gods
BINOY KAMPMARK lifts the veil on bad and costly advice supplied by the consultancy class
SNAKE OIL: Javid, Johnson and Sunak visit Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Herts 6/4/2022
[Pic: Simon Dawson/CC]
JOHN GREEN’s palette is tickled by useful information leavened by amusing and unusual anecdotes, incidental gossip and scare stories
The bard contemplates X — anti-human vomit soup with dog shit croutons — and the Tory recycling bin that is Reform
ALAN MORRISON recommends an outstanding and timely anthology of poems that reflect the experience and consequences of African migration
BINOY KAMPMARK examines the food racket as evidenced by the recent promotion of Italian cuisine to the status of ‘intangible national heritage’
FIONA O’CONNOR and MARIA DUARTE review State of Statelessness, Rental Family, 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, and The Rip
The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens our Businesses, Infantilizes our Governments and Warps our Economies
by Mariana Mazzucato and Rosie Collington, Allen Lane, £25
CONSULTANCY companies have become the mandarins of outsourcing, and have served to degrade expertise in the public sector while diminishing the quality of services.
Along the way, they have charged astronomical fees in giving repeatedly flawed advice. Consultants, packaged as all-wise gurus, have become the great confidence tricksters.
Embracing the inner voodoo of consultancy had the effect of discouraging in-house contributions and solutions within government and the broader economy. The result has been a strange plea to those outside the public sector, resulting in what can only be described accurately as the consultacracy.
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