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A smaller Whitehall must better manage its best talent
Whitehall should rethink its approach to how it manages Fast Streamers.
What to make of the Spending Review speech?
If there was a 'handbook of successful international deficit reductions', how would the Chancellor’s speech stack up against its recommendations?
Spending Review: can transparency trump temptation?
We should be up-front about the fiscal pain.
The fate of quangos
The government's announcement of arm's length bodies to be reformed sees it rearranging the deckchairs of the state, rather than rolling it back.
No 2 to No 10: taking MINDSPACE to Downing Street
I return to No 10.
How permanent secretaries reach the top
We examine the careers of top mandarins.
The New Persuaders
In an effort to map the world's soft power landscape we have worked in partnership with Monocle magazine to develop a Soft Power Index.
Parliament's new centre of gravity
The centre of gravity in the House of Commons is shifting from the chamber to the committee corridor.
Yes, Prime Minister on stage: the verdict
A new stage version of Yes, Prime Minister has just arrived in the West End.
How can we shape up for national security?
The Institute's Shaping Up report in January concluded that Whitehall needed to make some changes to be more effective.