In his New Year Message, Tony Blair has said that there will be "unprecedented" and "unsettling" changes in the public services of England. This is yet another indication that even a Labour Government, the harbinger of the welfare state as we know it today, is realising that the highly-centralised, top-down administered public services are no longer working for the benefit of the public.
Keith Hudson __________________________________________________________ �Writers used to write because they had something to say; now they write in order to discover if they have something to say.� John D. Barrow _________________________________________________ Keith Hudson, Bath, England; e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________
