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Cabinet Ministers Escape Through Kitchen Window

Megan AmramAugust 28, 2018

Keir Starmer Promises Stability While Cabinet Ministers Escape Through Kitchen Window Five Observations on Britain’s Cabinet Collapse Labour MPs now use the phrase “full confidence in the Prime Minister” the same way airline pilots say “slight turbulence.” Cabinet resignations in Britain now happen so frequently BBC producers keep resignation graphics permanently loaded like weather alerts. Westminster insiders claim at least three ministers now keep emergency overnight bags hidden behind copies…

Governance

The Civil Service: A History of Magnificent Neutrality in Increasingly Impossible Circumstances

Alan NafzgerJuly 2, 2018

The Civil Service: A History of Magnificent Neutrality in Increasingly Impossible Circumstances | How Britain’s Permanent Bureaucracy Learned to Serve Every Master, Trust No Special Adviser, and Survive Everything Except a Government That Actually Knew What It Wanted

Governance News Social

Potholes Historic Landmarks

Asha MwangiJune 15, 2018

Britain Declares Potholes Historic Landmarks After Running Out of Asphalt Heritage England Steps In to Save Nation’s Most Beloved Road Features From Repair In a landmark decision that transport historians are calling “inevitable,” the Department for Transport announced on Tuesday that Britain’s estimated 1.7 million potholes will be granted protected status under the Historic Environment Act, preserving them for future generations who might otherwise never know what it felt like…

Governance

Britain’s Electoral System: How to Win a Landslide on a Third of the Vote and Call It Democracy

Alan NafzgerJune 8, 2018

Britain’s Electoral System: How to Win a Landslide on a Third of the Vote and Call It Democracy | First Past the Post, Wasted Votes, and the Reform Debate That Has Been Almost Conclusively Settled in Favour of Keeping Things Roughly as They Are

Governance

The Final Assessment: What Britain Gets Right, What It Gets Wrong, and Why the Conversation About It Never Ends

Alan NafzgerMay 31, 2018

The Final Assessment: What Britain Gets Right, What It Gets Wrong, and Why the Conversation About It Never Ends | The Institutions That Work, the Reforms That Are Overdue, the Problems That Are Structural, and the Reasons to Be Simultaneously Discouraged and Cautiously Optimistic About British Democracy

Current Absurdities Governance

Voluntaryism: Italicise The Word Voluntarily

JunglepussyApril 8, 2018

Voluntaryism: Italicise The Word Voluntarily | Consent Is A Love Letter, Tax Is The Polite Extortion

Governance

Cabinet Reshuffles: The Quadrennial Ritual of Musical Chairs That Governs Britain

Alan NafzgerMarch 26, 2018

Cabinet Reshuffles: The Quadrennial Ritual of Musical Chairs That Governs Britain | Why Ministers Move Every Two Years Before Understanding Their Departments, Who Gets What Job, and the Art of the Dignified Exit That Nobody Is Fooled By

Governance

The British Mental Health Crisis: Waiting Lists, IAPT, Community Services, and the Policy That Says Mental Health Is a Priority While Funding It as an Afterthought

Alan NafzgerMarch 26, 2018

The British Mental Health Crisis: Waiting Lists, IAPT, Community Services, and the Policy That Says Mental Health Is a Priority While Funding It as an Afterthought | NHS Talking Therapies, Community Mental Health, Psychiatric Beds, Section 136, and the Gap Between the Mental Health Act and What the System Delivers

Governance

The British Sports Policy Nexus: Football Governance, the Premier League, the Olympics Legacy, and Whether Sport Is Politics or Merely Looks Like It

Alan NafzgerMarch 16, 2018

The British Sports Policy Nexus: Football Governance, the Premier League, the Olympics Legacy, and Whether Sport Is Politics or Merely Looks Like It | Premier League Wealth, Football Governance Review, Fan Ownership, Cricket’s Class Problem, and the Olympics Legacy That Was Not What Was Promised

Current Absurdities Governance

Rule-of-Law Conservatism: Polishing Magna Carta

Harper ThamesFebruary 17, 2018

Rule-of-Law Conservatism: Polishing Magna Carta | Held Together By Latin Tags, Long Lunches, And Judges

Current Absurdities Governance

Soft Social Democracy: Sensible Shoes, Sensible Tax Bands

Lowri GriffithsJanuary 10, 2018

Soft Social Democracy: Sensible Shoes, Sensible Tax Bands | Roy Jenkins On Tuesdays, Shirley Williams On Sundays

Governance

Constitutional Moment: Is Reform Inevitable? The Question Britain Has Been Answering ‘Not Yet’ Since Approximately 1911

Alan NafzgerDecember 2, 2017

Constitutional Moment: Is Reform Inevitable? The Question Britain Has Been Answering ‘Not Yet’ Since Approximately 1911 | Constitutional Moments Theory, The Trigger Problem, Citizens’ Assemblies, Codification Proposals, the Political Conditions for Reform, and Why Every Crisis Produces a Recommendation That Goes Unimplemented

Governance

Corruption, Scandals, and Sleaze: A Brief and Incomplete History of British Politicians Being Human

Alan NafzgerNovember 6, 2017

Corruption, Scandals, and Sleaze: A Brief and Incomplete History of British Politicians Being Human | Cash for Questions, Expenses, Covid Contracts, and the Revolving Door — How Britain Manages Corruption by Giving It a Committee and Hoping for the Best

Current Absurdities Governance

Hard Socialist Planning State: Nationalise The Watches

Harper ThamesSeptember 21, 2017

Hard Socialist Planning State: Nationalise The Watches | If The Trains Are Late, Form A Sub-Committee

Governance

Party Funding, Membership, and Internal Democracy: Who Pays for British Political Parties, Who Joins Them, and Who Gets to Run Them

Alan NafzgerSeptember 16, 2017

Party Funding, Membership, and Internal Democracy: Who Pays for British Political Parties, Who Joins Them, and Who Gets to Run Them | Donation Dependence, State Funding Debates, Membership Trends, One Member One Vote, Trade Union Affiliation, and the Democratic Theory Behind Organisations That Claim to Represent the People

Governance

Labour Party Spends £1 Million A Month Using AI

Judi OnlineAugust 15, 2017

Labour Party Spends £1 Million A Month Using AI To Explain Why AI Will Destroy Workers Westminster Discovers The Future Is Terrible, But Terribly Convenient Labour warns AI will replace workers, then commissions AI to replace the intern who was drafting warnings about AI replacing workers. Sam Altman reveals OpenAI’s top token spender burns through 100 billion tokens a month, which Labour reportedly described as “rather modest, actually — we…

Governance

The Bank of England: The Institution That Sets Interest Rates, Prints Money, and Is Somehow Both Independent and Blamed for Everything

Alan NafzgerAugust 8, 2017

The Bank of England: The Institution That Sets Interest Rates, Prints Money, and Is Somehow Both Independent and Blamed for Everything | Monetary Policy, Quantitative Easing, Inflation, Andrew Bailey, the Mortgage Crisis, and the Central Bank That Gained Independence in 1997 and Has Been Explaining Itself Ever Since

Business Governance News

UK Pays France £660 Million

Judi OnlineJuly 12, 2017

UK Pays France £660 Million to Continue Historic Tradition of Solving Nothing Expensively The United Kingdom has agreed to pay France up to £660 million over three years to stop people crossing the English Channel in small boats, in a deal that both governments are calling historic and that independent observers are calling the latest chapter in a bilateral relationship best described as Britain paying France to care about a…

Business Governance Political Technology

AI Writes The Reports & Politicians Ignore The Reports

Tinsel VandergraphMay 10, 2017

Humanity Reportedly Entering New Era In Which AI Writes The Reports, Politicians Ignore The Reports, And Journalists Report On Both LONDON (PRAT.UK DATELINE) — Sociologists studying the intersection of technology, governance, and media have identified what they describe as “a new and stable equilibrium” in the information ecosystem: one in which artificial intelligence generates reports at a volume and speed that exceeds any human capacity to read them, politicians receive executive…

Governance

The Housing Crisis as Political Choice: How Britain Decided Not to Build Homes and Is Surprised by the Consequences

Alan NafzgerMay 7, 2017

The Housing Crisis as Political Choice: How Britain Decided Not to Build Homes and Is Surprised by the Consequences | Right to Buy, Planning Refusals, Landlordism, Generation Rent, the Bank of Mum and Dad, and the Political Economy of Keeping House Prices High

Governance

Londoners Stunned To Learn Mayor Has Been Sadiq Khan For Their Entire Adult Lives

Alan NafzgerApril 28, 2017

Londoners Stunned To Learn Mayor Has Been Sadiq Khan For Their Entire Adult Lives | Capital discovers the man on the cycling poster also runs the city

Governance

The Green Party: Environmentalism, Electoral Frustration, and the Party That Is Always More Popular Than Its Seat Count Suggests

Alan NafzgerApril 25, 2017

The Green Party: Environmentalism, Electoral Frustration, and the Party That Is Always More Popular Than Its Seat Count Suggests | Green Party History, Brighton Pavilion, Caroline Lucas, the 2024 Breakthrough, Climate Policy Advocacy, and the Structural Disadvantage of Being an Everywhere Party in a Winner-Takes-All System

Governance

The Composition and Appointment of UK Supreme Court Justices: How Britain Selects Its Highest Judges

Alan NafzgerApril 22, 2017

The Composition and Appointment of UK Supreme Court Justices: How Britain Selects Its Highest Judges | The Judicial Appointments Commission, Selection Criteria, Diversity Failures, Security of Tenure, International Comparisons, and the Question of Who Guards the Guardians

Current Absurdities Governance

Mixed Economy Advocacy: Bring Back BR With Coffee

Asha MwangiApril 21, 2017

Mixed Economy Advocacy: Bring Back BR With Coffee | Two Slightly Bad Ideas Plus State Oversight

Governance

The Constitutional Moment That Is Always About to Arrive: Why British Constitutional Reform Stays on the Horizon and What It Would Take to Land

Alan NafzgerApril 15, 2017

The Constitutional Moment That Is Always About to Arrive: Why British Constitutional Reform Stays on the Horizon and What It Would Take to Land | The Accumulated Reform Deficit, the Scotland Question as Forcing Function, Lords Reform’s Twenty-Sixth Year as First Stage, Electoral Reform’s 2024 Moment, and Whether the Next Crisis Will Finally Be the One That Counts

Governance

The NHS at Seventy-Five: The Institution Britain Loves, Neglects, Praises, and Debates but Cannot Bring Itself to Fundamentally Reform

Alan NafzgerApril 14, 2017

The NHS at Seventy-Five: The Institution Britain Loves, Neglects, Praises, and Debates but Cannot Bring Itself to Fundamentally Reform | Waiting Lists, Workforce Crisis, Integrated Care, Private Finance, Wes Streeting, and the Political Economy of a National Religion

Governance

Identity Politics and the British Political Landscape: Why Everyone Claims They Are Against It and Nobody Can Agree on What It Is

Alan NafzgerFebruary 1, 2017

Identity Politics and the British Political Landscape: Why Everyone Claims They Are Against It and Nobody Can Agree on What It Is | Culture Wars, Woke, Trans Rights, Statues, Decolonisation of Curricula, Free Speech on Campus, Class vs Identity, and the Political Debate That Has Consumed More Energy Than Any of Its Participants Would Admit

Category: Governance

Cabinet Ministers Escape Through Kitchen Window

The Civil Service: A History of Magnificent Neutrality in Increasingly Impossible Circumstances

Britain’s Electoral System: How to Win a Landslide on a Third of the Vote and Call It Democracy

The Final Assessment: What Britain Gets Right, What It Gets Wrong, and Why the Conversation About It Never Ends

Voluntaryism: Italicise The Word Voluntarily

Cabinet Reshuffles: The Quadrennial Ritual of Musical Chairs That Governs Britain

The British Mental Health Crisis: Waiting Lists, IAPT, Community Services, and the Policy That Says Mental Health Is a Priority While Funding It as an Afterthought

The British Sports Policy Nexus: Football Governance, the Premier League, the Olympics Legacy, and Whether Sport Is Politics or Merely Looks Like It

Rule-of-Law Conservatism: Polishing Magna Carta

Constitutional Moment: Is Reform Inevitable? The Question Britain Has Been Answering ‘Not Yet’ Since Approximately 1911

Corruption, Scandals, and Sleaze: A Brief and Incomplete History of British Politicians Being Human

Hard Socialist Planning State: Nationalise The Watches

Party Funding, Membership, and Internal Democracy: Who Pays for British Political Parties, Who Joins Them, and Who Gets to Run Them

Recommended Reading, Key Scholarly Works, and the Books That Will Actually Help You Understand Britain

Labour Party Spends £1 Million A Month Using AI

The Bank of England: The Institution That Sets Interest Rates, Prints Money, and Is Somehow Both Independent and Blamed for Everything

UK Pays France £660 Million

AI Writes The Reports & Politicians Ignore The Reports

Londoners Stunned To Learn Mayor Has Been Sadiq Khan For Their Entire Adult Lives

The Green Party: Environmentalism, Electoral Frustration, and the Party That Is Always More Popular Than Its Seat Count Suggests

The Composition and Appointment of UK Supreme Court Justices: How Britain Selects Its Highest Judges

Mixed Economy Advocacy: Bring Back BR With Coffee

The Constitutional Moment That Is Always About to Arrive: Why British Constitutional Reform Stays on the Horizon and What It Would Take to Land

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