Like the activists I believe in action, not words. Global leaders mouth good intentions, but they are woefully insufficientSay what you like about how dismally difficult it is to get a ticket, but “global Britain” still knows how to put on a show. Cop2…
Sir John Chilcot obituary
Civil servant who chaired the Iraq war inquiry and gave a damning verdict on Tony BlairSir John Chilcot, who has died aged 82 of kidney disease, was the quietly spoken mandarin famous for his excoriating verdict on the conduct of the Iraq war, begun in…
Some Afghan refugees to be housed in UK hotels for months
MPs express concern over dozens of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children being placed in hotelsSome of the 7,000 Afghan refugees who are currently being housed in hotels are likely still to be in emergency hotel accommodation by the end of the year, th…
Ministers urged to stop ‘hiding from scrutiny’ by blocking FoI requests
Six departments spent total of at least £500k in four years trying to block requests, openDemocracy findsSix government departments have between them spent at least half a million pounds over the past four years trying to block information being releas…
UK has no coherent plan for Afghan refugee crisis, says ex-Whitehall chief
Mark Sedwill also attacks west’s withdrawal as a ‘bad policy, badly implemented’Britain and its allies have no coherent plan to deal with the huge refugee crisis expected to follow the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan, a former cabinet secretary has w…
Priti Patel appoints ex-Taxpayers’ Alliance head as new aide
Jonathan Isaby joins Home Office as home secretary’s new communications private secretaryPriti Patel has appointed the former head of a hard-right anti-tax pressure group and former editor of a conservative blog to a government role in the Home Office,…
UK health department plan for return to office working put on hold
Exclusive: DHSC scraps timetable requiring civil servants to be in offices for up to eight days a month from SeptemberCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageSajid Javid’s health department has abandoned plans to end civil servants’…