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Public service, private motives and a parish murder
Sophie Cliff reviews Till Death Us Do Part, by Reverend Penny Stephens, 2025 Not every novel has a cast of credibly imagined cabinet ministers and special advisers. But with a husband who was the real-life Permanent Secretary at the Northern Ireland Office between...
Leadership lessons from vaccines to defence
Madelaine McTernan, Chief of Defence Nuclear at the Ministry of Defence, explains how Covid and nuclear converged People sometimes ask me how I ended up as Chief of Defence Nuclear in the Ministry of Defence (MoD), not having had a background in either defence or the...
The elusive prize of prevention
Warren Heppolette explains how devolution can help drive better-targeted and more cost-efficient public services My journey in public service was prompted by my experience 33 years ago in Moldova, an Eastern European country struggling to be reborn as its economy...
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...