Incisive commentary from the IfG’s expert team on issues facing government and key ministerial decisions.
From analysis of key political events such as budgets and party conferences to snap responses to unexpected developments such as government reshuffles, our writers set out their views and analyse what government gets right, what it gets wrong, and what it can do better.
The limits of compensation
Opposition to fracking.
Permanent secretaries need permission to plan for the future
Preparation for the future is also a civil service responsibility.
MINDSPACE grows up
Behavioural economics in government.
What’s not working; how to make government evaluation better value for money
Detainee Inquiry - obstacles to finding out what happened
Leadership contest – Gladstone, Disraeli and the modern premiership
Season's Greetings
It’s very nearly the most wonderful time of the year
50 ways to leave a coalition – and how to govern in the final phase
The blunders of their government: what can we learn from the problems of Obamacare?
Outsourcing and the price of political scrutiny