Bonfire of the bureaucrats
How civil servants became the enemy.
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Keir Starmer’s righteous war against the Blob
The campaign against civil service lethargy draws on a noble tradition of anarchic, anti-bureaucratic socialism.
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Why Starmer will champion a smarter state
Labour knows the centre left has the greatest interest in government working well.
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Gus O’Donnell: The insider’s guide to preparing for power
The former head of the civil service on the cost of Brexit, the case for electoral reform, and Keir Starmer’s…
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How the civil service prepares for transitions of power
With an election looming, the UK's most senior civil servants must get ready for all eventualities.
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The year of woe behind the civil servants strike
Political turmoil made 2022 a year of frustration and powerlessness for civil servants.
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Who cares about Tory expenses?
Labour’s scoop hasn't just fallen flat – it has backfired.
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The civil servants’ expenses files reveal a government committed to waste
The GPC revelations are the latest scandal to highlight how the Conservatives have squandered Britain’s resources.
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How the gap between public and private sector pay has grown
A proposal by Liz Truss would have further depressed public sector wages that have fallen in real terms since 2010.
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Liz Truss’s public sector pay U-turn is a warning to her – and to the Conservatives
The Tory front-runner’s embarrassing retreat shows the danger of fixating on tax cuts and shrinking the state.
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Why on Earth does Boris Johnson want to scrap the civil service fast-stream?
Wavering Tory voters in Wakefield aren’t worrying about the number of graduates in Defra.
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Cutting 91,000 civil servants is crude gesture politics
Savings need to be made – but not like this.
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Boris Johnson claims government could not have invented Peppa Pig – despite £60m government fund to come up with “the next Peppa Pig”
Making a pig’s ear of it.
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