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.
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...
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.
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.
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...
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.
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.
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.
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...
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.
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...
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?
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.
