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Dr Michelle Clement
@mlclem.bsky.social
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Lecturer at The Strand Group, Policy Institute, King’s College London | Author ‘The Art of Delivery’ PM’s Delivery Unit & public service reform | Govt | Tech | Landscapes | Scottish & Pakistani heritage
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Delighted to welcome a new cohort of MA Government Studies students to ‘The History of the Civil Service’ module @strandgroup.bsky.social

Over 10 weeks we examine how the Civil Service has evolved alongside changing role of the state

Applications for 2026/27 open
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October 23, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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📣 Great to hear my book ‘The Art of Delivery’ recommended in @financialtimes.com podcast by @stephenkb.bsky.social

📕 available now, let me know 💭 amzn.eu/d/0T9SFSA

🎧 episode open.spotify.com/episode/3Q8t...

@bitebackpublishing.bsky.social @strandgroup.bsky.social @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social
September 1, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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Lord Grade, Chair @ofcom.bsky.social begins @strandgroup.bsky.social lecture on Growth, Innovation and the Future of the Media

‘Without good regulation markets risk running wild. … Good regulation means being fit for the times.’

‘Modern regulators must do three things:
Engage, Enable, Evolve.’
July 15, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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Delighted to read this excellent review of my book ‘The Art of Delivery’ by Lord Francis Maude @politicshome.bsky.social

‘Michelle Clement has produced a brilliant account of the creation of the No 10 Delivery Unit and the travails of the Blair government to implement its public service reforms.’
July 15, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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📣 Catch up: Fantastic to see my book ‘The Art of Delivery’ reviewed in @financialtimes.com by @stephenkb.bsky.social

📰 on.ft.com/3G1PoPn

📕 Buy the book and let me know what you think 💭 amzn.eu/d/615RqYr

@bitebackpublishing.bsky.social
July 7, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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The paper copy of @financialtimes.com with op-ed by me. V cool to see! ✍️

Full circle moment having first started reading @jonmdavis.bsky.social paper copy of the FT 15 years ago, as an MA student 🗞️
July 2, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Delighted to have written for @financialtimes.com on ‘Lessons for delivering change for a restless electorate’

Using research frm my new 📕 ‘The Art of Delivery: The Inside Story of How the Blair Government Transformed Britain’s Public Services’

✍️🔗 on.ft.com/3G2AKHG

@bitebackpublishing.bsky.social
July 1, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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📣 1 MONTH since THE ART OF DELIVERY PUBLISHED 🎉

Great reviews in 📰, BBC Radio 4 & 5 + biggest politics podcasts🎥

📕 in hands of decision-makers who can use to inform how to deliver now 🎯

Many ppl ✍️ have said hw fascinating & insightful they’ve found it. Thank you
@bitebackpublishing.bsky.social
June 27, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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Great to see @jaheale.bsky.social recommend ‘The Art of Delivery’ in The Spectator as ‘one of the two most important British political books published this summer’

The 📕 reveals how to turn rhetoric into reality in government

✍️ www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-...

@bitebackpublishing.bsky.social
June 20, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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Grateful to have been able to give Sir Tony Blair my book ‘The Art of Delivery’

It tells the untold story of how his government transformed Britain’s public services

Using 600,000 words of Sir Michael Barber’s unpublished diaries plus interviews with Cabinet ministers, SPADs and civil servants
June 19, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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Delighted to see ‘The Art of Delivery’ 📕 featured in @samfr.bsky.social hugely popular & insightful Substack ‘Comment Is Freed’ today

✍️ Read & subscribe open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/h...

📚 Get your copy, tell me what you 💭 www.bitebackpublishing.com/books/the-ar...

@bitebackpublishing.bsky.social
June 18, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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Enjoyed speaking at @re-state.bsky.social ‘Reimagining Whitehall’ conference at BT Tower, w Susan Acland-Hood Permanent Secretary DfE, Richard Clarke Home Office, Ed Stainton BT, expertly chaired by @stkaye.bsky.social

Great to hear from Minister @georgiagould.bsky.social on galvanising missions!
June 17, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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Great to be on BBC Radio 4 Free Thinking yesterday with @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social live from Broadcasting House 🎙️

Shared reflections from my 📕 ‘The Art of Delivery’ @bitebackpublishing.bsky.social

Enjoyed meeting the panel inc brilliant Cath Bishop

🎧 Listen back
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June 14, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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Incredible moment for me to see my 📕 flash up on screen on Britain’s most popular politics podcast @therestpolitics.bsky.social

V much appreciating the feedback

And sorry (not sorry) @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social for “pilfering” your diaries. They are a valuable primary source for us historians!
June 12, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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Thank you Alastair Campbell for recommending my 📕‘The Art of Delivery’ to Rory Stewart on The Rest Is Politics

“It’s very, very readable.”

“It’s about how we matched process of the Spending Review to the work of the Delivery Unit and progress that was being made.”

@bitebackpublishing.bsky.social
June 12, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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Thank you @rentouljohn.bsky.social for including my book ‘The Art of Delivery’ in @the-independent.com Commons Confidential newsletter

The 📕 includes lessons on how to craft successful spending reviews to boost delivery

@bitebackpublishing.bsky.social
June 6, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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Great that George Osborne approves of Blair govt structural reforms.

To his critique, it’s not either or re. delivery units and structural reform. Need both - got to have outcomes people see over a Parliament as well as renew underlying systems (which take longer to feel results of).
June 3, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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📣 Thank you Ed Balls & George Osborne for having me on brilliant @polcurrency.bsky.social podcast to ask about delivery in govt

Ed is right - ‘The Art of Delivery’ 📕 shows how No10 and HMT working together effectively can galvanise the govt machine into action

🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/0J7D...
June 3, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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📣 Huge thank you to Ed Balls for this endorsement of my new book

– The Art of Delivery: The Inside Story of How the Blair Government Transformed Britain’s Public Services –

Available now 📚 www.bitebackpublishing.com/books/the-ar...

@bitebackpublishing.bsky.social
May 30, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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Thank you to all who came to my book launch for ‘The Art of Delivery’ with Sir Michael Barber @jonmdavis.bsky.social

Incredible to have such an engaged audience of 300 people, inc cabinet secretaries and students past & present @strandgroup.bsky.social

📕 www.bitebackpublishing.com/books/the-ar...
May 29, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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📣 Big thank you to Alan Milburn for this endorsement of my new book

The Art of Delivery: The Inside Story of How the Blair Government Transformed Britain’s Public Services @bitebackpublishing.bsky.social

The book is available to buy now 📚 www.bitebackpublishing.com/books/the-ar...
May 28, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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Big thanks @matt-forde.bsky.social offering enthusiastic endorsement of MA Government Studies teaching @strandgroup.bsky.social

We chatted about how the MA brings in critical decision makers who were actually in the room to help us understand how government works

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May 27, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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📣 PUBLICATION DAY for my new book 🎉
‘The Art of Delivery: The Inside Story of How the Blair Government Transformed Britain’s Public Services’

It tells an as yet untold story of how transformative change was actually delivered - how a PM turned rhetoric into reality

@bitebackpublishing.bsky.social
May 27, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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‘It sounds absolutely phenomenal.’
– @matt-forde.bsky.social on my 📕 ‘The Art of Delivery: The Inside Story of How the Blair Government Transformed Britain’s Public Services’

*Out tomorrow*
amzn.eu/d/1GQvqjC

@bitebackpublishing.bsky.social
May 26, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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Really enjoyed joining the brilliant @matt-forde.bsky.social on his ‘The Political Party’ podcast to chat about my new 📕‘The Art of Delivery’

Plus how PMs learn on the job and what it was like to see the McCartney and Jagger of 1970/80s politics…

Listen here 🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/65mB...
May 26, 2025 at 8:54 AM