Francis Maude is a fan of the Civil Service. Today he presented its upper echelons with his plan for what Whitehall should look like in 2020, a decade from now. In his speech he noted that the qualiti... Read More

The Canadian model is getting plenty of attention this morning as we wait for George Osborne and Danny Alexander to publish their roadmap for cuts. The Telegraph has a useful account of what the Liber... Read More

How to make the state supertanker change course? The latest figures from the ONS show how difficult it is to modify behaviour in the public sector in the age of austerity. Even if you account for the ... Read More