So this is what it takes: Whitehall infighting prompts honest report about civil service reform failures
Frustrated coalition ministers are escalating their war with civil service mandarins today, with an unusually honest report admitting its failures over the last 12 months.
Declining influence: Worries mount about lack of Brits working in EU institutions
Britain is at risk of losing even more influence in Europe unless it addresses the decline of UK nationals working for EU institutions, an influential group of MPs has said.
Civil service opens up to those who skip university
A new Civil Service scheme will recruit young people who did not go to university for jobs across several government departments, such as in Whitehall.
Institutionalising the coalition’s collapse
Changes in Downing Street are rebalancing the policy playing field back towards the Tories – but leaving unresolved tensions as 2015 approaches.
PM’s plebgate handling mauled
David Cameron was wrong to ask the Cabinet secretary Sir Jeremy Heywood to investigate the Andrew Mitchell ‘plebgate’ scandal, the public administration select committee of MPs has said.
MP: Stressed civil servants ‘should meditate more’
Groups of meditating civil servants could be pursuing eastern mindfulness methods to enhance their efficiency, if a Labour backbencher gets his way.
Poisoned government: Ministers’ war with civil servants reaches new depths
The mutual contempt between coalition ministers and their senior civil servants is now so bad it is putting the effectiveness of government at risk, a think-tank has warned.
Cameron ‘finds out about his own policies on the radio’
David Cameron often finds out about his own policies on radio and TV and then frequently disagrees with them, one of his closest allies has admitted.
Midterm review: A missed opportunity?
The midterm review will give the coalition’s longevity prospects a shot in the arm, but the art of multi-party government in Whitehall still has some way to go before it becomes truly refined.
No, minister! Whitehall’s Sir Humphreys face ‘objectives’ horror
“If people don’t know what you’re doing, they don’t know what you’re doing wrong,” civil service Sir Humphrey Appleby once said in yes minister – but civil servants will soon have fewer places to hide.
