Those in charge of this - including Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude and executive director of government comms Jenny Grey - have been caught between a rock and a hard place.
On the one hand Downing Street is determined to slash costs on such comms, having slammed 'wasteful spend' under the previous ...
24 May 2012
| by John Woodcock
Both have apologised publicly for failing to present their policies properly. But this is an administration that is being dragged down by the basic GDP numbers that show the country failing to return to growth.
Deep down, the pair are canny enough to know that any government comms drive cannot defy ...
17 May 2012
| by Anthony Hilton
to be paid. It is an open secret that Mary Portas' high street review was very anti-supermarket before it was watered down for publication. And last week's Queen's Speech outlined a bill that proposes to create ...
11 May 2012
| by Peter Holt
appeared to have an effect, rather than just those where the higher polling numbers are down to a ...
newspapers have now dubbed it has brought down two more chief executives; Trinity Mirror s Sly Bailey ...
03 May 2012
| by Anthony Hilton
days, to his having to turn down a £1m bonus.
cent of society continues to get richer despite the lack of growth.
If wealth is not 'trickling down ...
19 Apr 2012
| by John Shewell
The story was about how a group of activists claimed to have used denial of service attacks to shut down government sites in protest over the extradition of UK citizens to the US. This is significant, firstly because the notion of control no longer rests with corporate or government institutions ...
19 Apr 2012
| by Anthony Hilton
Mubarak and against street protesters in the weeks before he was forced out....The company defended itself then by saying that it had to comply with the legal request from the government to shut down its networks because of legally binding agreements with the regime. Second, it could not put its employees in an unsafe position where they would appear publicly to defy the forces still ...
05 Apr 2012
| by John Woodcock
at the expense of the majority made the revelations about the Downing Street dinners for donors particularly ...
to go down well. But the 'granny tax' got particular traction because it was the only major surprise ...