02 Mar 2010
Britain needs public sector professionals released from the rigid constraints and distortions of current management systems, says Eileen Munro — and they are desperate to be liberated to do what they do best...
02 Mar 2010
By poisoning the political discourse on this care issue, says Donald Hirsch it has made it harder to achieve something similar to the pension reforms that followed the Turner Commission
Conservatives
02 Mar 2010
The key to the Tory success in 1951-55, says Tim Bale was that men like Rab Butler knew not just what the government should choose to do but also what it should choose not to do
02 Mar 2010
Oh, and you’d have fewer Scots at Westminster, says James Mitchell — a nice bonus for the Tories
02 Mar 2010
A hung parliament is the talk of the political town. But as John Curtice explains, there are ‘hung parliaments’ and ‘hung parliaments’
Democracy
02 Mar 2010
It is increasingly common for legislation to be enacted that impose targets on government ministers — to reduce carbon emissions, cut government borrowing, and so on. This article considers what, … » more
02 Mar 2010
W HETHER you’re a small business trying to identity check customers or someone tracing long-lost friends, the edited electoral register is a public database that has proved vital to both consumers … » more
02 Mar 2010
A frequently voiced concern about the quality of democratic oversight in the UK is that government produces an excessively large and increasing quantity of legislation which … » more
Afghanistan
02 Mar 2010
Professor Anthony King argues that the political strategy in Afghanistan still continues to ignore the political-lords who dominate the country outside Kabul
02 Mar 2010
In April 2006, British forces deployed to Helmand province in southern Afghanistan as part of NATO’s widening mission in the country. The fighting in Helmand has been the most intense … » more
02 Mar 2010
Anthony King: : Founded by Alexander in 330 BC on the junction of trade routes between the Indus and Oxus valleys, Kandahar City has been the sacred and symbolic homeland for the Pashtuns since at least 1748 when Ahmed Shah Durrani made it the capital of the Durrani empire. The city houses over 2,000 mosques including the Shrine of the Cloak of Mohammed …
Undefined
02 Mar 2010
Last month Bob Ainsworth, Gordon Brown’s current Secretary of State for Defence, published a defence green paper Adaptability and Partnership: Issues for a Strategic Defence Review. This document … » more
02 Mar 2010
In July 1998 George Robertson, Tony Blair’s first Secretary of State for Defence, published The Strategic Defence Review (SDR) some 14 months after the start of the review and 8 … » more
Undefined
02 Mar 2010
These are certainly hard times for defence. British armed forces have a demanding operational role in Afghanistan, and are likely to be there for several more years. For … » more
Cyprus
02 Mar 2010
The UN-brokered talks intended to bring about a reunification of Cyprus, and which began in September 2008, have made little real progress, and command little popular support on either side. Handshakes with the UN’s Ban Ki-moon, who flew in in February in the hope of giving the talks a boost, served only to underline the problems which confront any meaningful settlement on an island bitterly divided for the past 47 years. Failure of these talks will mean the end of any hope of future reunification. If so, the next British government will need a new approach, argues Michael Stephen
Banking
02 Mar 2010
The financial crisis has triggered a revolution in regulatory thinking. Once relegated to the obscure universe of the specialist, financial regulation has now come to the forefront of economic and … » more
Northern Ireland
02 Mar 2010
Sir John Chilcot, a mandarin’s mandarin, has been chairing the Iraq War inquiry with great skill. What has attracted less attention is the way in which his legacy … » more
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Featuring a three article feature by Anthony King on the root of our problems in Afghanistan; Eileen Munro and Donald Hirsch on care; online-only content on Cyprus by Michael Stephen, and extra articles on defence by Andrew Dorman and Paul Cornish.
