JOE FARRINGTON-DOUGLAS | At the risk of over-extending a metaphor, is it possible to change the mood music in health policy without a touch of discord?
JUDY HIRST | These are uncharted waters for the public finances. Few of those trying to steer a way through the wreckage wreaked by financial meltdown have a map, let alone a moral compass, to...
MARK HELLOWELL | There is now widespread concern that the rate of capital expenditure in the UK will be inadequate for a very long period, hampering growth and damaging public services. Encouragingly...
DAVE LEWIS | The Environment Agency has just started writing to organisations with details of qualification for the Carbon Reduction Commitment Energy Efficiency Scheme
CONOR RYAN | The parties are pushing any decision on increased university tuition fees until after a 2010 election. All the predictions suggest that the review will propose that fees increase from...
How can public sector budgets be cut without damaging service quality? This question will dog politicians from now until general election day and beyond
Is it all over now? The years of relative industrial calm face a speedy end as spending cuts threaten to propel public sector unions back to the militant 1980s
PHYLLIS STARKEY | The communities and local government select committee today publishes the government’s and other official responses to our report published in June examining the framework for the...
JAMES CLOSE | 'This is no time for a novice.' Gordon Brown’s jibe at Davids Cameron and Miliband at last year’s Labour conference was surely one of the better lines of his premiership
CHRIS LESLIE | They used to say that the national obsession was home property values, dominating middle-class dining table conversations up and down the country throughout the 1980s and 1990s. How...
DAVID LIPSEY | The Conservatives are suddenly beginning to think of themselves as the party of government. That explains shadow chancellor George Osborne’s speech – labelled ‘brave’ – to his party...
MICK FLETCHER | The closer we get to the election – and to the inevitable period of public spending austerity – the louder the criticism for one of the schemes that has made a difference to...
JUDY HIRST | Pity the poor public sector manager. Pilloried by the press as time-wasting penpushers, the people who plan, run and performance-manage our public services are in the direct line of fire...
As the chair of CIPFA’s housing panel, I was interested in housing minister John Healey’s PF blog, reminding readers of the deadline for the consultation on English council housing funding
