Political Innovation no1: Towards Interactive Government
If you’ve faced or solved problems around interactive government, help shape the body of knowledge around each of the barriers and their solutions on the wiki.
Right-Wing Watch
Why the Edinburgh East primary should be re-run
The Labour leadership primary in Edinburgh East was cast into doubt this evening when it became clear that only 300 people had voted in a contest which used the wrong rules.
Another week, another Tory tax exile – only this time the Daily Mail sinks him
They just don’t seem to learn. Barely a week after appointing famed billionaire tax avoider Sir Philip Green to advise the Government on cost-cutting, the Tories have been at it again, trying to appoint multi-millionaire tax exile David Rowland as Tory Party Treasurer.
Green’s appointment as ‘cuts Tsar’ drives Cable closer to resignation
One could be forgiven for checking that yesterday wasn’t April 1st after waking up to the news that private equity tycoon and asset-stripper extraordinaire Philip Green has been appointed by David Cameron to head a Whitehall spending review.
Another balls-up by Calamity Chris!
Gaffe-prone work and pensions minister Chris Grayling has made another stunning statistical screw-up – over-estimating the proportion of London households in which no one has ever worked by a factor of more than 3:1.
June 2: ‘Over 1,000’ schools apply for academy status; July 23: Down to 158
Michael Gove’s boast that “over 1,000 schools” had applied for academy freedoms have been exposed as wildly off target with the revelation that just over 150 had in fact done so.
More confusion over when Clegg flip-flopped over the deficit
The question of when exactly the Liberal Democrats u-turned over the speed of tackling the deficit reared its head again today when Bank of England Governor Mervyn King appeared before the Treasury Select Committee in Parliament.
Celtic warnings over AV poll date
With controversy about the Government’s Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill rumbling on, voices from the devolved administrations have expressed their concern with the planned timing of the vote. Wales’ Chief Electoral Officer has declared it “vital” that the Welshtest
Electoral reformers should oppose the coalition’s gerrymandering
AV is a superior electoral system to first-past-the-post and should be supported in a referendum. But electoral reformers should oppose the coalition’s gerrymandering
Coalition announces u-turn on dissolution resolution
The coalition has announced a u-turn on the controversial dissolution resolution. In doing so they have taken our advice and moved to a two-thirds majority.