‘Reveries of a Long Distance Fell Runner’, Oxford University Press Blog, January 2013.

http://blog.oup.com/2013/01/reveries-of-a-solitary-fell-runner-matthew-flinders/

‘The Smart Fork and the Crowding Out of Thought’, Oxford University Press Blog, February 2013

http://blog.oup.com/2013/02/smart-fork-crowding-out-thought/

‘Beastly Eastleigh and the ‘None-of-the-Above’ Party’, Oxford University Press Blog, March 2013

http://blog.oup.com/2013/03/beastly-eastleigh-ukip-matthew-flinders/

What is Governance? A Response to Francis Fukuyama

http://governancejournal.net/2013/03/11/flinders-on-what-is-governance/#more-1395

Francis Fukuyama published a response to Prof. Flinders’ critique – http://governancejournal.net/2013/04/30/1492/#more-1492

‘Bonfire of the quangos? We’re still at the kindling stage’, Public Service Magazine, March 2013.

http://www.publicservice.co.uk/feature_story.asp?id=22020

‘What a mess! The Politics and Governance of the British Constitution’, Oxford University Press Blog, March 2013

http://blog.oup.com/2013/04/british-constitution-politics-governance/

 

‘Remembering Margaret Thatcher: An Obituary’, Oxford University Press Blog, April, 2013

http://blog.oup.com/2013/04/margaret-thatcher-matthew-flinders/

 

‘Saints and Sinners, Politicians and Priests and the 2013 Local Elections’, Oxford University Press Blog, May, 2013

http://blog.oup.com/2013/05/politicians-priests-2013-local-elections/

 

‘Foolish, But No Fool – Boris Johnson and the Art of Politics’, Oxford University Press Blog, June, 2013

http://blog.oup.com/2013/06/foolish-boris-johnson-politics/

 

‘Only one winner in the battle between Boris and Osborne’, The Conversation.com, June 2013

http://theconversation.com/only-one-winner-in-the-battle-between-boris-and-osborne-15064

 

‘Bring me a Scapegoat to Destroy: Babies, Blame and Bargains’, Oxford University Press Blog, July, 2013

http://blog.oup.com/2013/07/cqc-scapegoat-babies-blame-bargains/

 

‘Why Parliament Matters: Waging War and Restraining Power’, Oxford University Press Blog, September, 2013

http://blog.oup.com/2013/09/why-parliament-matters-syria-david-cameron-vote/

 

‘Civil Service Reform (Again): Bias, inertia and the need to stop ‘muddling through’, The Guardian [Public]

http://www.theguardian.com/public-leaders-network/2013/sep/23/civil-service-reform-parliamentary-commission-whitehall

 

‘Feral Politics: Searching for Meaning in the 21st Century’ Oxford University Press Blog, October, 2013

http://blog.oup.com/2013/10/feral-politics-george-monbiot/

The Guardian, live on-line debate ‘How can public managers and politicians work together?’ 4 October 2013.

http://www.theguardian.com/public-leaders-network/2013/sep/25/politicians-public-managers-work-together-livechat