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The innovation coming out of Africa

Many African governments are making real progress on delivery – often with the help of powerful performance management and monitoring systems reporting directly to national leaders. Jim Murphy of the […]

May’s hard Brexit: starting position or ultimate goal?

The British PM has set out her stall for EU exit talks, and she’s offering few goods for Continental customers. Matt Ross unpicks the domestic political calculations that have shaped […]

Ripples around the world: Brexit’s implications for Europe and beyond

The UK referendum vote to leave the EU will have consequences far beyond the Continent. Six months after the historic poll, Matt Ross considers its implications for governments both in […]

From counting figures to reconfiguring: the changing role of the government finance chief

New research reveals how UK finance leaders are helping to plan and deliver major change projects, as Britain’s public bodies call on their skills to deliver the transformations demanded by […]

Responding to the Brexit challenge: a round table debate

The UK’s civil servants are working hard to understand the likely impacts of Brexit, and to help forge a UK government position. But at a round table debate bringing together […]

Former UK chancellor condemns ‘idiotic’ Brexiteer lines on EU talks

Veteran Tory Ken Clarke last week criticised Britain’s ‘doolally debate’ on Brexit – and argued that politicians’ focus on media headlines has undermined good policymaking, leaving the door open to […]

John Kingman, champion of HM Treasury’s supply-side activism, warns of Brexit threat

The former second permanent secretary at the UK Treasury last week mounted a passionate defence of its activist micro-economic policies – now under threat in Westminster’s shifting political landscape. Matt […]

Why the British PM is pursuing a Brexit she doesn’t believe in: Analysis

It is becoming clear that the UK is heading for a ‘hard’ Brexit, leaving the EU’s Single Market and customs union and recreating its trading relationships from scratch. Matt Ross explains […]

Criminal evidence: examining what works in cutting crime

The explosion in data and evidence about crime should have transformed how governments handle policing and criminal justice, says Tom Gash – but instead, we keep on building policies around […]

What Brexit has meant for the UK civil service so far?

While Britain’s vote to leave the EU has had no immediate impact on Europeans living in the UK or Britons living in other EU nations, the referendum result has led […]