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Film Review: The Ides of March

...tial primary campaign – it was tricky to find a seat anywhere in London. I eventually bagged a place...n Gosling, George Clooney.The Ides of March is not really a film about politics. It’s a compelling dram...

95 days ago

The Terrace Cafeteria

...ood at the Terrace cafeteriaThe Terrace Cafeteria Houses of Parliament London SW1In that great bastion of t...uccess in running the country. Perhaps they should give up on all this politics stuff, and instead launch a n...

364 days ago

Blog posts

Brown is covering all the bases - but is anybody ready to listen?

...d’ – ie. light-touch – regulation and worked to make London a more comfortable place for...squo;d been wrong in his approach to the City. This being the world of politics, of course, it was chutzpah:...

859 days ago

News

Interview: Alistair Darling

...the prospect that they’re never going to be able to buy a house in London or start a family.”Furthe..., assessing the likely results of a Greek default. “That’s where politics really trumped reality, bec...

110 days ago

Departments focus on effective use of office space

Over the last 20 months, the Home Office has carried out a review of working practices...asures such as hot-desking across its central London estate. As a result it has no...ed real and significant savings across our central London e...

179 days ago

Interviews

Interview: Siobhan Benita

...enita is making the leap into politics. Matt Ross meets the would-be London mayor as she kicks off her campaign. British politics is dysfunctional, argues Si...ayor is supposed to represent London, not a political party,” she...’t her stance against party politics weakened by the fact that bot...

11 days ago

Interview: Keith Vaz

...very human.Then he brings the subject back to politics, arguing that many politici...t of police pay: the biggest demonstration in London by the police since the 1920s...degree1982  Becomes a solicitor for the London Borough of Richmond1987  E...

81 days ago

Features

Listening in on the leaders

...nd the world gathered at the Institute for Government (IfG) in central London. These top officials came tog...ng public aversion to government debt, remains influential in Canadian politics. Nonetheless, he warns that ...

47 days ago

Profile: Dr Martin Read

...ifference between what someone like me would do as an adviser, and the politics of it. Inevitably, compromi...ke them.” CV highlights1950    Born in Tooting, South London1974    Completes...

179 days ago

Special_report

The coalition special advisers

...orked as a risk analyst for a London-based venture capital firm.De...ey’s involvement in British politics began in September 2006 wit...Insurers. But his interest in politics soon resurfaced, with jobs at...e completed a 500km ride from London to Paris in four days, raising...

179 days ago

Out of the darkness

...nt spells working for various London councils, the Association of...Manchester, where she studied politics and modern history, Stern joi...] spare time”. While at the London School of Economics he edited t...xtent of public engagement in politics as well as constitutional ref...

179 days ago

Companies

Dialogue Society

The Dialogue Society is a registered charity, established in London in 1999, with the aim of advancing soci...or democracy, human rights, the non-instrumentalisation of religion in politics, equality and freedom of spee...

7 days ago

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Joined-up views on joined-up services

The Total Place pilots have proved a winner across the political divide, leading to widespread calls for more local autonomy. Ben Willis discovers that, whoever wins the election, Whitehall will have to take the concept seriously Total Place, the government’s latest drive to improve loca...

Tags: bob neill, julia goldsworthy, government, politics and public administration, Central Government, civil service, london politics

627 days ago

Making the right connections

Recent reports have praised Total Place and participatory budgeting. Richard Parsons calls for Whitehall to start connecting the two ideas   Over recent weeks, evaluation reports have been published on two government programmes that point the way to a reinvention of the way the British...

Tags: government, politics and public administration, Central Government, civil service, london politics, policy making, public administration

627 days ago

Comments

Comment on "To cut or not to cut"

...man then, even more ignorant than I am now of politics and economics, but still wi...said something like: “I came into politics along with Aneurin Bevan and...etwork inviting me to a breakfast workshop in London (I'm in Manchester and busy wit...

854 days ago