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.
Churchill, alcohol and government records: why our national archives matter
Government is in danger of losing embedded institutional memory - archives matter.
Payment by results: ‘soft outcomes’ and the needs of funders
The second in a series of blogs from Nick O'Shea
Open plan Civil Service?
Civil servants are expecting changes to their working environment
Am I a little bit pregnant? Why language matters in policy making
The first in a series of blogs from Nick O'Shea
Championing an innovative public sector
Marco Steinbergvblogs on how the lab has helped the Finnish government address policy challenges
Stepping outside the day job – the start of something different
My experience of Connecting Policy with Practice
Probation reform: doing it all?
Grayling's probation reforms are ambitious
News management
The Ferguson resignation will be talked about long after the public have blanked out what the Queen said today.
Beyond the spreadsheets and on to the streets: what policy makers can learn from the front line
Stories and experience must be part of the policy making toolkit
Beyond the spreadsheets and on to the streets: what policy makers can learn from the front line
Policy makers could learn from the front line