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Beyond the headlines on TTIP: Beware the fine print

By Gabriel Siles-Brügge and Nicolette Butler Filed Under: All posts, Europe, Featured Posted: June 1, 2015

Although much of the criticism in the UK of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) has focused on the NHS and ‘corporate tribunals’, Gabriel Siles-Brügge and Nicolette Butler argue that this overlooks one of its central purposes: a series of provisions that could make it more difficult for governments to regulate in the public […]

Why we need a health bill, but aren’t going to get one

By Kieran Walshe Filed Under: All posts, Featured Posted: May 29, 2015

Here Kieran Walshe reacts to the Queens Speech and comments on the lack of any mention of plans for healthcare. On seeing that the Queen’s Speech contained no proposed legislation on health and social care, many healthcare workers and managers may understandably have breathed a sigh of relief. After the traumas of the Health and […]

One Night in May [Part 1] – Whatever Happened to the Strange Death of Tory England?

By Dave Richards and Martin Smith Filed Under: All posts Posted: May 22, 2015

In 2005, the political journalist Geoffrey Wheatcroft wrote a critique of the Conservative Party, The Strange Death of Tory England. Here Dave Richards and Martin Smith explore this failed prophesy and examine the implications of GE2015 on the main parties. When Wheatcroft wrote his book the Conservative Party was yet to come to terms with […]

The good ship SS DevoManc: full steam ahead?

By Lawrence Benson Filed Under: All posts, Devo Posted: May 21, 2015

SS DevoManc has now set sail after a six weeks stopover in port during the general election. Dr Lawrence Benson tries to plot its course. Let’s recap on DevoManc. It’s about the devolution of power and resources from Westminster to the city region of Greater Manchester (GM), including for health and social care. This marks […]

The truth about deflation: keep calm and carry on (for now)

By Diane Coyle Filed Under: All posts Posted: May 19, 2015

As official Government figures show that the UK economy deflated in April, for the first time since the 1960’s, Diane Coyle looks at whether we should be worried. There was much excitement about the news that the UK’s Consumer Price Index (CPI) declined by 0.1% in the 12 months to April. A negative figure for […]

Oxbridge Universities are the go to places for academic research and expertise: but it’s not the whole story

By Carole Talbot Filed Under: All posts, Whitehall Watch Posted: May 19, 2015

Can ‘outsider’ universities break the Oxbridge stranglehold on the Civil Service? Carole Talbot explores… It’s well understood that Whitehall Civil Servants go to Oxford and Cambridge Universities more often than elsewhere. And, many of the linkages into these universities are based on civil servants having attended one of the Oxbridge Colleges themselves and that the […]

UK productivity is a leadership challenge

By Chris Bones Filed Under: All posts Posted: May 15, 2015

This week Bank of England chief Mark Carney – and the University of Manchester’s own Ken Clark – highlighted the problem with productivity that our economy faces. Here Chris Bones offers some solutions. Whilst the coalition government delivered employment and growth it did far less well on productivity. The Bank of England reports that UK […]

The Ebola virus is mutating, but is no more or less deadly, yet

By Simon Lovell and David Robertson Filed Under: All posts, Featured, Science and Technology Posted: May 11, 2015

The Ebola outbreak has loosened its grip on West Africa, as shown by Liberia being declared free of the disease a couple of days ago. This is cause for relief, but not complacency, explain Simon Lovell and David Robertson. The 2014 outbreak of the Ebola virus arose from a single case in Guinea, probably transmitted […]

So it begins: Last time it was Five Days in May – this time it could be Five Weeks (or more)

By Colin Talbot Filed Under: All posts, Westminster Watch Posted: May 7, 2015

As the polls open and ballots begin to be cast across the country as GE2015 gets underway, Colin Talbot looks at one possible scenario should the predictions of a hung Parliament prove accurate. It could easily be 5 weeks before we have a settled Government. It might not be, the polls might be wrong or […]

Beyond the headlines on TTIP: Beware the fine print

One Night in May [Part 1] – Whatever Happened to the Strange Death of Tory England?

The truth about deflation: keep calm and carry on (for now)

Oxbridge Universities are the go to places for academic research and expertise: but it’s not the whole story

UK productivity is a leadership challenge

The Ebola virus is mutating, but is no more or less deadly, yet

So it begins: Last time it was Five Days in May – this time it could be Five Weeks (or more)

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