More mayors and a shake-up of local government will not be enough to rebalance the economy and heal the north-south divideTwo years after Boris Johnson made “levelling up” the lodestar of his new administration, the public still struggles to understand…
Home Office, Foreign Office and MoJ worst for openness, finds report
Research into government transparency by leading thinktank shows some departments release far less information than they shouldThe Home Office, the Foreign Office and the Ministry of Justice have been named as the worst-performing government department…
That’s the trouble with Chequers: it makes you forget you might have some work to do | Catherine Bennett
It’s always party time at the grace-and-favour boltholes our top ministers call homeBefore he became boon companion to the now-disgraced financier, Lex Greensill, David Cameron devoted a chunk of his autobiography to justifying Chequers, first among th…
‘Rebranding’ Prince Andrew? Now there’s a real mission impossible | Hadley Freeman
The task of making the prince even vaguely palatable to the public has been called ‘the rebranding job from hell’. But I’ve got a few ideasHistory is unfolding all around us. Tragedies are occurring every day. So I was very taken with a recent article …
David Cameron urged to address reports he made $10m from Greensill
Labour says if figure is wrong as ex-PM’s spokesperson has suggested, then he should set record straightDavid Cameron is under growing pressure to answer further questions about his involvement in Greensill Capital, given he reportedly made up to $10m …
Why public schoolboys like me and Boris Johnson aren’t fit to run our country
Our elite schools foster emotional austerity and fierce clique loyalty. Here a privately educated writer of the prime minister’s generation reveals the lasting damage public schools doScroll down for a Q&A with Richard BeardI had a feeling I couldn…