Defence

Francis Maude and the Fox fiasco

13 October 2011 | Conor Ryan

The Cabinet Office minister’s opposition to political advisers has proved disastrous for the government and has exacerbated the problems faced by both the defence and health secretaries Read more

Tags: | | | | | 1 comment

Entente frugal, by Judy Hirst

4 November 2010 | Judy Hirst

Necessity is the mother of invention. So, with revenue funding for local government cut by 26%, all sorts of things that were once unimaginable suddenly look eminently doable. Read more...

Tags: | | | | | | | Comment

CSR: Insecure in the knowledge, by Colin Talbot

21 October 2010 | Colin Talbot

If there is one word that sums up yesterday’s Comprehensive Spending Review it is insecurity. Today, Britain is a much less secure place to be than it was yesterday, nationally, socially and individually. And by the time the CSR is implemented in full we will all be feeling much less secure – we really will be ‘all in it together’. (‘It’ being the operative word). Read more...

Tags: | | | Comment

Whitewash Wednesday, by Malcolm Prowle

18 October 2010 | Malcolm Prowle

We all await with baited breath the results of the Comprehensive Spending Review on Wednesday. This exercise will concern the largest reductions in public spending since the Geddes cuts in the 1920s and will dwarf anything that the Thatcher governments of the 1980s tried to undertake. Read more...

Tags: | | | | | Comment

Labour pains, by Alan Downey

16 February 2010 | Alan Downey

KPMG and the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development have just published their quarterly Labour Market Outlook survey of over 700 employers from the private and public sector. It paints a bleak picture. Despite the UK’s emergence from recession, it predicts more redundancies and a substantial fall in employment intentions in the public sector for the next quarter. Read more...

Tags: | | Comment