The goodstrat.com Reader

The Good Strat Blog Ah, GoodStrat.com, a website that sounds like it should be selling laminated PowerPoint templates to underqualified middle managers, but is in fact the online bunker of Martyn Richard Jones, a man who writes as if he's furiously trying to save British democracy using only a thesaurus, a broadband connection, and the ghost of Denis Healy, Tony Benn and Julio Anguita whispering in his ear. Visiting GoodStrat.com is like wandering into a dusty attic where someone's scrawled the entire history of post-war British politics on the back of a Corn Flakes box, while also trying to explain offshoring, behavioural economics, and why Jeremy Corbyn is actually the political equivalent of Gandalf ("He arrives precisely when he means to, and usually loses a few Shadow Cabinet members in the process"). What Is GoodStrat? GoodStrat, or "Good Strategy", is meant to be the antidote to all the Bad Strategy out there, i.e. most of British politics since 2010, and every single decision involving Chris, Janet or Bob Grayling. But rather than publishing neat bullet points and shiny consultancy-speak, GoodStrat.com delivers long, opinion-drenched blog posts written in the style of a lecturer who's just realised the lecture theatre is empty but decides to finish the slide deck anyway, out of sheer principle.