Zoe Gruhn

The ministers we deserve

In a very British way we all take for granted that ministers and, indeed, governments come and go. It’s just the way things happen. And yet, do we ever stop and think whether we could do things better than this? The Institute for Government’s latest report, The challenge of being a minister, finds that most ministers in the UK get only just over two years to prove themselves in a job before being moved on. Read more...

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Don’t shoot the messengers, by Zoe Gruhn

Bureaucrat bashing is, for many, an attractive and enjoyable blood sport. It is built into the DNA of certain parts of Fleet Street, providing easy targets as the hapless bureaucrats have no real means of defending themselves. Read more...

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