This article explores the views of several UK officials on the concepts of performativity and the culture of performance on knowledge management. In his recorded statement in a new BBC4 series, Chancellor Gordon Brown stated that the markets provide opportunities for prosperity, but equally they are not automatically equated with the public interest. Meanwhile, in his recent speech, Tony Blair makes several comments about education in relation to four principles such as standards and accountability, devolution and diversity, flexibility of employment, and greater choice. Joe McKenzie has offered an explanation of "performance" considered as a new social attitude in his recently published book "Perform or Else: From Discipline to Performance." (Contains 1 note.) [For Part I see EJ807236.]