1.4 million people can't be wrong
Another day, another report telling us that the government has wasted £43bn of taxpayers' money on the NHS. This time the source is... the patients themselves! And not just a few disgruntled ones either. 1.4 million of them were surveyed…
Review of the Papers, Thursday 20 September
Government The first comprehensive official analysis of the impact of migration on public services and British life will be published next month, Liam Byrne, the immigration minister, promised yesterday. The study, by the Migration Impacts…
Big Daddy wins again
Government consultation are a bit like the old Saturday afternoon wrestling, with the government playing the role of Big Daddy and the rest of us the enormous, yet hopeless, Giant Haystacks. Everyone knows who is going to win, but we have…
Not worth the paper they are signed upon
The Times is reporting that town halls would be forced to take action over petitions with more than 200 signatures under new proposals to devolve power to voters. This is Hazel Blears' big idea for making councils act on demand of the power…
That NHS upgrade system - it's not very good, is it?
Security breach on Government's £12bn upgrade computer system shocker! So the new computer system in the NHS isn't a tight as Fort Knox or even as secure as the flies on John Prescott's trousers it turns out. What a surprise. Amusingly…
Review of the Papers, Wednesday 19 September
Government Town halls would be forced to take action over petitions with more than 200 signatures under new proposals to devolve power to voters. Hazel Blears, the Communities Secretary, is to publish a consultation paper detailing new…
Review of the Papers, Tuesday 18 September
Government Fifteen government departments and agencies, including Whitehall's biggest spenders, face the threat of legal action for failing to carry out their duties under race equality legislation, according to a final report from the…
Government to underwrite all risk from now on
So the Government has promised that it will guarantee Northern Rock savers by underwriting £28bn of deposits? Darling has, in theory, just nationalised the savings industry - yet you get the distinct impression that he is making this up as…
Teach them to learn, not teach
Education, education, education. I wonder how many blog entries I have started with those three words over the past year? Incredible as it is to believe, but it was education that was the single biggest issue the Labour government was…
Judges to be formally assessed
What is the best way to improve the performance of our judges? Well in typical New Labour fashion it seems the answer is to set target levels and dumb down. It is being reported that judges’ performance in court could well be monitored by…
Review of the Papers, Monday 17 September
Government Britain could be sent into an economic spiral profound enough to undermine confidence in the economy and in Gordon Brown's Government, economists have warned amid evidence that the crisis at Northern Rock has deepened. Experts…
