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Missing the bigger picture?
John Kingman responds to Justine Greening’s critique of HM Treasury Editor’s introduction: HM Treasury is arguably the UK’s most high-profile and most important government department. Its culture, its processes, its range of expertise and its ways of...
Why central government needs to let go
Peter McDonald talks to Sheffield City Council’s Chief Executive, Kate Josephs, about her move to the regions and what devolution may mean for those at the centre This conversation took place before the Prime Minister’s announcement on future devolution (Rewiring the...
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...
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...