21 Nov 2012
Which is the more memorable word to use when attacking the current Government? Incompetent? Inept? Bungling? Or 'omnishambles'?
Last week, the team at the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) named 'omnishambles' their 'word of the year'. How's that for a bit of creative PR, especially when the OED admits ...
03 Oct 2012
| by Alastair Campbell, Portland
success and failure and determines later a government's ability to drive through its programme. It is certainly the failure at the heart of the coalition's present problems.
But while the present government ...
12 Sep 2012
| by Andrew Caesar-Gordon
a government contract to assess disability benefit claimants' capacity to work. There have been a ...
26 Jul 2012
| by Mark Lowe, Third City
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The Government can play its part by pushing through the planned legislation on electricity market reform ...
24 May 2012
| by Elin Twigge, PLMR
The best campaigns capture the public imagination long before they tackle the Government, says Elin...for the coalition not to listen.
This was a textbook example of how strong public pressure forced the Government ...
of research and development tax credits for the life sciences sector after the change of Government in 2010 ...
24 May 2012
| by Oliver Pauley, Portland
. After a slightly stuttering start to the coalition Government's programme of devolving power ...
deliverable solutions to problems are rather thinner on the ground. Where they can be found, the Government ...
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Finally, the first coalition Government for 70 years has done little for the career prospects of many ...
24 May 2012
| by Andrew Escott, Cohn & Wolfe
of this century there was a renewed commitment at the top of Government to implement 'true' evidence-based policy ...
that should permeate across Government to ensure policies were not based on opinions, ideologies and what ...
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But there are two reasons why this approach is now under pressure.
First, the Government increasingly attempts ...
24 May 2012
| by Ben Stafford, Cicero Consulting
directly experienced the governance backlash, whether their accusers have sat behind Select Committee ...
will be asked when that value isn't evident.
Which brings me to the Government's proposal for a statutory register of lobbyists. I was pleased by the guiding principles set out in the Government's January ...
24 May 2012
| by Lionel Zetter & Charlie O'Rourke, AIMediaComms
With the Government pledging to introduce a statutory register of lobbyists, there is much ...
professional lobbyist. If you are a professional lobbyist, you should be on the Government's proposed statutory ...
-resourced opposition parties and the governing party, which has an army of civil servants and a battalion of special ...
24 May 2012
| by Richard Patient, Indigo Public Affairs
in Parliament.
Barnardo's victory in changing the Government's approach to adoption is certainly a major ...
to be included in the proposed Statutory Register of Lobbyists if the Government decided to include local ...