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Inside the machine
Adam Coutts highlights worrying fault lines in the relationship between academics and government How can academic research better influence government policy? Each year UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), the national funding agency for scientific research, directs...
Machinery before ministers
Mark Sedwill describes what mid-term transitions teach the centre Every incoming Prime Minister experiences the same first day, whether they arrive after a general election or a mid-term change of leader: the audience with the Sovereign, the speech in Downing Street,...
Let’s write down the mid-term transition rules now
Simon Case explains why we need a well-codified process for switching Prime Ministers outside an election period “Here we go again”. I received this message more than once from former Whitehall colleagues upon Keir Starmer’s resignation announcement...
Resilience in an era of systemic shock
Rosehanna Chowdhury explains how and why the UK should build a whole-of-society response As a member of the COBR operations team in the Cabinet Office early in my civil service career, I got a taste of why it’s important to be resilient in the modern world. Two...