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Prison privatisation won't work: effective, rehabilitating prisons are in all of our interests
Monday 29 July 2013
The privatisation scramble extends far beyond all of these aspects of our everyday lives, into the critical exercises of the power of the state over individual citizens
Labour to give jobs watchdog more teeth
Sunday 28 July 2013
Greater limits are needed on former ministers and advisers joining private firms, say MPs
Hamish McRae: We keep getting the balance so wrong when it comes to banking
Thursday 25 July 2013
Oliver Wright: The dismissal Downing St was forced to dismiss
Monday 15 July 2013
Inside Whitehall: The Civil Service is a very, very big organisation and it needs someone with corporate expertise to run it
Benefits cap row: Iain Duncan Smith accused of relying on 'dodgy' statistics to justify household cut-off
Monday 15 July 2013
Iain Duncan Smith was accused on Monday of relying on “dodgy” statistics to justify the Government’s £26,000-a-year benefits cap for each household.
David Cameron's defence guru joins US engineering giant
Sunday 14 July 2013
We want some of that! Unions demand 11% increases as MPs' pay rises to £74,000 a year
Thursday 11 July 2013
But regulator says cost would be offset by curbs to pensions, expenses for dinners, TV licences, taxis, and 'golden goodbyes'
Britain's bribery boom: One in 20 has bribed a public official as corruption rises
Monday 08 July 2013
Creeping levels of corruption in Britain have resulted in a worrying increase in the bribery of public officials, according to a major new report released on Tuesday.
NHS 'not safe with coalition,' poll reveals
Sunday 07 July 2013
Fewer than one NHS worker in 10 think the health service is "safe in the hands" of the coalition government, a new poll reveals.
A £10,000 pay rise for MPs? Good – they deserve it
Wednesday 03 July 2013
Inside Westminster: The fact is that many MPs could earn a lot more in the private sector
CAA to tighten air-lease rules safety
Saturday 29 June 2013
British carriers who rent foreign planes in busy periods are likely to face tougher safety checks
Rules of state spending are being reconsidered
Wednesday 26 June 2013
The limits of the cuts are being reached – and now nowhere is safe from the axe
Most public spending reviews create winners and losers. But there are no winners today
Wednesday 26 June 2013
When George Osborne spoke today he evidently felt he was responding to the public mood. How long will that mood last?
Public sector workers to lose automatic pay rises, as Chancellor George Osborne unveils further £11.5 billion cuts
Wednesday 26 June 2013
Chancellor says public sector pay rises will be limited to an average of up to one per cent for 2015-16, adding 'but the biggest reform we make on pay is to automatic progression pay'
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