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Monthly Archives: January 2012
Jan 31 2012
Gauging the time lags in Whitehall’s responses to modern digital processes suggests an enduring problem with organizational culture in the civil service
5 CommentsTweet How fast should British government incorporate the latest developments in digital communication into its dealings with citizens and customers? Patrick Dunleavy provides some detailed evidence to back up the claim that the online facilities of UK government are now lagging … Continue reading
Posted by: January 31, 2012
Tagged with: Digital Era Governance, Government IT, Social Media and tagged digital era
Jan 31 2012
The Public Administration Select Committee continues to push for greater leadership on reforms and for more strategic thought at the heart of government.
Leave a commentTweet One of the main accusations that have been levelled at the current government, despite its ambitious reform agenda, is that it does not ‘do’ strategy. Ahead of a lecture at the LSE tonight, the Chairman of the Public Administration … Continue reading
Posted by: January 31, 2012
Tagged with: public administration select committee, uk government, uk politics
Jan 31 2012
It’s official: waivers and bursaries don’t attract students
Leave a commentTweet Tim Leunig analyses the new data on how changes in university fees have affected applications. The data are out. We know how many people applied to each university, and how much that has changed since the previous year. We also … Continue reading
Posted by: January 31, 2012
Tagged with: economics, UK, university applications, university fees
Jan 30 2012
Bloody Sunday is almost universally recognised as ‘unjustified and unjustifiable’. But lessons must be drawn for peace in Northern Ireland, and for counterinsurgency more generally
1 CommentTweet Jim Hughes writes that the events of Bloody Sunday and the ‘shock’ of concentrated violence in the early phase of the Northern Ireland conflict reverberated and shaped the conflict for the following decades. However, the violence also led to … Continue reading
Posted by: January 30, 2012
Tagged with: Good Friday Agreement, Northern Ireland, uk government, uk politics
Jan 30 2012
We must acknowledge the limits of policing and punishment in the absence of social justice
1 CommentTweet Robert Reiner argues that it is time we re-evaluated our ‘common sense’ conceptions of the role of the police, and started to take seriously the notion that socio-economically rooted pressures generating criminality have been suppressed, but not tackled, by the decades of getting … Continue reading
Posted by: January 30, 2012
Tagged with: crime, criminal justice, economy, police, social justice, uk politics
Jan 29 2012
Book Review: Borderless Economics: Chinese Sea Turtles, Indian Fridges and the New Fruits of Global Capitalism by Robert Guest
2 CommentsTweet Robert Guest, Business Editor of The Economist, travels the world to make the case for the positive effects of migration and international connections, in a readable, wide-ranging new book on globalisation. Amusing, intelligent, and full of statistics, Borderless Economics is the … Continue reading
Posted by: January 29, 2012
Tagged with: al qaeda, anthropology, Arab Spring, China, democracy, diaspora, economic growth, genocide, globalisation, immigration, journalism, North Korea, technology, terrorism, USA
Jan 29 2012
Book Review: Outside In by Peter Hain
Leave a commentTweet Former anti-apartheid leader turned Labour cabinet minister Peter Hain reflects on his early campaigning days, being prosecuted in two political trials and his role in negotiating the historic 2007 settlement in Northern Ireland. Carl Packman finds it a remarkably honest … Continue reading
Posted by: January 29, 2012
Tagged with: Gordon Brown, Iraq, Labour, nelson mandela, Northern Ireland, party politics, protests, South Africa, terrorism, Tony Blair, violence
Jan 29 2012
Book Review: In Defence of Politicians (In Spite of Themselves) by Peter Riddell
Leave a commentTweet How can voters trust politicians that consistently say one thing yet do another? Rory Creedon reviews Peter Riddell’s lastest work, which considers exactly how our levels of respect and trust have changed following the expenses scandal, cash for questions, and … Continue reading
Posted by: January 29, 2012
Tagged with: backbenchers, british politics, commons rebellion, cuts, expenses, House of Commons, House of Lords reform, Iraq, manifesto, Murdoch, party politics, political science, select committees, Tony Blair, tuition fees
