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 numbers behind the efficiency savings
The headlines might sound very positive, but are rather misleading.
Demographic audit
Diversity of appointments to public bodies.
100 days of solitude
What has the new Cameron administration done?
Where next for digital transformation?
Change is afoot at the GDS.
Government defeats in the Lords
The new parliamentary reality?
Firm direction
Kids Company and ministerial directions.
Not child’s play
What does the Kid’s Company case tell us about government’s relations with the third sector?
Writing wrongs? Ministerial correspondence under the Coalition.
Joe Randall looks at the latest data on ministerial correspondence and assesses how government departments and their arm's-length bodies are doing.
Staff reductions on the horizon: charting civil service staff numbers
Gavin Freeguard on the challenges of charting multiple government departments.
Regulatory policy scrutiny: independent advice to government
RPC Chair Michael Gibbons CBE reflects on the RPC’s impact to date and where it needs to go next.