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The changing structure of public spending – accident or design?
If we are back in the world of "boom and bust", we need to think about how our public finance frameworks operate in a world of large cyclical swings.
Public appointments: what role for parliament?
What are the risks and benefits of the public appointments system?
Smaller and better?
We examine how Whitehall can improve while cutting costs, using examples from around the world.
A smaller Whitehall must better manage its best talent
Whitehall should rethink its approach to how it manages Fast Streamers.
What to make of the Spending Review speech?
If there was a 'handbook of successful international deficit reductions', how would the Chancellor’s speech stack up against its recommendations?
Spending Review: can transparency trump temptation?
We should be up-front about the fiscal pain.
The fate of quangos
The government's announcement of arm's length bodies to be reformed sees it rearranging the deckchairs of the state, rather than rolling it back.
No 2 to No 10: taking MINDSPACE to Downing Street
I return to No 10.
How permanent secretaries reach the top
We examine the careers of top mandarins.
The New Persuaders
In an effort to map the world's soft power landscape we have worked in partnership with Monocle magazine to develop a Soft Power Index.