BP-5424A

ONE WAY TO KEEP PROMISES?

Keir Starmer pledged - before being elected PM - to set up an Ethics and Integrity Commission. And he's ticked that box - job done. Anti-corruption experts aren't so sure - suggesting it's a cosmetic re-brand.

CIVIL SERVICE WORLD

GOVERNMENT

BP-5374K

HIGHER TAXES - AND LESS SAY?

The UK gov't plan to reorganise local councils will probably cost taxpayers more and dismantle grassroots democracy. Deliberate plan - or incompetence? Is it time to consider carefully where this is all going?

STROUD TIMES

GOVERNMENT

BP-5365D

RINGING THE BELL FOR REEVES

The mismanagement of gov't - each and everyone - would fill the book shelves of the British Library. We have to ask - what's the remedy to this entrenched societal failure. The people need an upgrade in ability.

TCW

GOVERNMENT

BP-5351A

E-PETITIONS: THEY'RE A TRICK?

Is it a trick to make the People think, gov't is listening to them? Is it, effectively, a dead-end siding "off the mainline" - to side-line the concerns and opinions of the masses - leaving the gov't without a challenge?

BBC

GOVERNMENT

DD-5322D

IT'S ABOUT GETTING IT RIGHT!

As Rosie Duffield SMP suggests - this has to be done right! All of gov't is about winning the argument - the adversarial debate method. Debate, however, should be about TRUTH - and getting the decision RIGHT!

UK COLUMN

GOVERNMENT