Luke Blair: Sector struggles with plain English
10 Apr 2009 | by Luke Blair
I witnessed two different elements of the public sector trying to talk to each other last week in an effort at joined-up government. They failed completely.
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When the holiday season comes round - Christmas, Easter, the entire month of August - the normal news flow falls away because Parliament and the law courts go on holiday, thereby cutting off the source of much of what we routinely write about.
I witnessed two different elements of the public sector trying to talk to each other last week in an effort at joined-up government. They failed completely.
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