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29 Jun 07
ROBERT SHRIMSLEY | So the great clunking fist has pencilled in next spring for a dash to the polls.
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22 Jun 07
ANN ROSSITER | Gordon Brown’s media people have been keen to tell us that the changeover at Number 10 will be accompanied by a new, straightforward attitude to communicating with the press.
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15 Jun 07
VICTORIA MACDONALD | A story once did the rounds of the Whitehall corridors that outgoing health secretary John Reid took a possible successor to one side and said: ‘Don’t do it, I’ve spent all the...
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8 Jun 07
PETER HETHERINGTON | I’ve been fascinated by local government ever since I inherited from my dad a commemorative brochure to mark the opening of the new municipal power station.
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1 Jun 07
PHILIP JOHNSTON | There was a time when politicians clashed over the great issues of state power and liberty, public and private ownership, relief of want, war, universal suffrage and class.
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25 May 07
PETER RIDDELL | In all the torrent of words that Gordon Brown has unleashed since launching his leadership campaign on May 11, his one specific pledge has been to introduce what he called a first...
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18 May 07
PETER WILBY | We are about to see — or should be about to see — a dramatic generational change in British government.
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11 May 07
DAVID LIPSEY | What do last week’s elections tell us about the prospects for the next general election?
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4 May 07
HELEN DISNEY | It hardly seems a decade ago that Tony Blair stood on the steps of Number 10 while the country celebrated a fresh mood of optimism.
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27 Apr 07
MELISSA BENN | Over the past week, the two Davids — Cameron and Miliband — have been speaking about the changing role of the individual in modern society.
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20 Apr 07
ALAN LEAMAN | Are the British media a barrier to the development of good public policy? In recent weeks, two influential voices have argued that it is.
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13 Apr 07
ROBERT SHRIMSLEY | It is a striking facet of modern politics that the events that have the greatest consequence often go unheralded, while enormous attention is lavished on cosmetic exercises.
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12 Apr 07
CIPFA will be hosting an event at its Mansell Street offices on 3 November to mark 40 years since the publication of the Layfield report into local government finance, including contributions from...
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6 Apr 07
PETER RIDDELL | The devolution settlement is about to face its severest test.
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30 Mar 07
TONY TRAVERS | Local government finance is a paradoxical issue.
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23 Mar 07
DAVID LIPSEY | On March 19, I was one of a delegation from the all-party parliamentary betting and gaming group seeing Treasury minister John Healey about the taxation of online gambling.
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16 Mar 07
VICTORIA MACDONALD | Poor Patricia Hewitt. In a recent survey of just under 100 NHS chief executives, she came out as the least popular health secretary of the past decade, just pipping Frank...
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9 Mar 07
PHILIP JOHNSTON | Are the London Olympics shaping up to be the new Millennium Dome, only more expensive and embarrassing, and this time on a global scale?
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2 Mar 07
ALAN LEAMAN | Once again, Britons are being fêted for what we are good at.
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23 Feb 07
PETER RIDDELL | Tony Blair is not going quietly.
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16 Feb 07
HELEN DISNEY | Cast your mind back, if you will, to 1990 and the BSE ‘mad cow’ crisis.
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9 Feb 07
ROBERT SHRIMSLEY | Government is in stasis. The Cabinet is openly defying the authority of the prime minister.
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2 Feb 07
NICK COMFORT | As fresh horror stories well up daily from the Home Office, John Reid’s plan for his sprawling department to be split into two looks increasingly likely to go ahead.
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26 Jan 07
ANN ROSSITER | Barring a political earthquake, Gordon Brown will be prime minister in six months’ time.
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19 Jan 07
PETER WILBY | Thirty years ago, Enoch Powell observed that ‘all political lives… end in failure’. He might now say that they all end in derision.
29 Jun 07ROBERT SHRIMSLEY | So the great clunking fist has pencilled in next spring for a dash to the polls.
12 Apr 07CIPFA will be hosting an event at its Mansell Street offices on 3 November to mark 40 years since the publication of the Layfield report into local government finance, including contributions from...
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