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  Automated for the people: putting robots to work

  Robotic Process Automation technologies can take on swathes of routine, repetitive administrative work. But...

  • Posted March 12, 2019
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  Brexit demands pace and innovation, says John Manzoni

  The UK civil service has never previously faced a challenge like Brexit. To meet...

  • Posted March 7, 2019
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  Albion through the looking glass: Britain’s nervous breakdown

  Magical thinking, perverse incentives and growing anger are pushing the UK ever closer to...

  • Posted February 1, 2019
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  An uncertain take-off: why US officials are reaching for the parachutes

  The US government is back at work – but the five-week funding gap has...

  • Posted January 31, 2019
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  Looking past the politics: Britain’s future under the EU withdrawal deal

  UK politicians are hopelessly divided over the Withdrawal Agreement. But their furious debate overlooks...

  • Posted December 19, 2018
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  Whither Brexit? Explaining the UK’s political chaos

  An attempt to unseat the prime minister. Deadlock between government and Parliament. A hopelessly...

  • Posted December 14, 2018
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  Taxing the digital economy: the struggle for real cash in a virtual world

  Government tax bases are shrinking as digital services and global businesses expand, but there’s...

  • Posted December 13, 2018
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  Obituary: Jeremy Heywood, UK Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Civil Service

  The former cabinet secretary, who died earlier this month, managed to challenge people’s thinking...

  • Posted November 27, 2018
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  Analysis: The UK’s black comedy of errors

  Conventional wisdom holds that the House of Commons must reject Theresa May’s Brexit deal....

  • Posted November 19, 2018
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  Challenging the policy of procrastination

  The British government has decided not to decide its Brexit goals, Gordon Brown argued...

  • Posted November 15, 2018
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  NZ Treasury boss rebuked over budget leak

  New Zealand’s outgoing Treasury Secretary, Gabriel Makhlouf, was “clumsy” in his handling of a...

  • Posted June 30, 2019
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  Trump drops forest centre cuts plan

  The Trump administration has reversed its decision to close or outsource US Forest Service...

  • Posted June 26, 2019
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  UK geodata and digital chiefs to step down

  The heads of the UK’s digital unit and its geospatial data strategy are both...

  • Posted June 24, 2019
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  US House draft spending bill proposes 3.1% federal pay rise

  The Trump administration’s plans for a 2020 federal pay freeze and the break-up of...

  • Posted June 9, 2019
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  World’s first ‘wellbeing budget’ broadens focus from GDP

  The New Zealand government announced details of their much-anticipated ’wellbeing budget’ last week, shifting...

  • Posted June 6, 2019
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