The question of sovereignty has not been resolved in Scotland. On the one hand, there is the Westminster doctrine, that the Crown-in-Parliament is sovereign an...
Anya Pearson interviews Michael Kenny, Inaugural Director of the Bennett Institute for Public Policy at the University of Cambridge, about winning the 2021 Ber...
The present government has made the territorial targeting of funds central to its programme. In the name of ‘levelling up’, it will distribute large tranches o...
Parliamentary scrutiny – a good thing?
The UK parliament identifies one of its main roles as ‘the close examination and investigation of government policies...
On 27 July 2019 Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced The Towns Fund, a £3.6 billion scheme designed to improve transport and communications infrastructure in...
In his Ditchley lecture earlier this year, Michael Gove argued for ‘bold and persistent experimentation’. Mistakes will be made, and Gove disarmingly acknowled...
How the British government has communicated with the public and what it has communicated have played a major part in determining how citizens have behaved duri...
It has long been assumed that UK devolution was structured around a clear separation of powers that are reserved to the UK parliament and those that are de...
As an expert on game theory and the like, Dominic Cummings will be well aware of the concept of moral hazard. This holds that, if individuals are protected aga...
Political scrutiny of the UK’s management of COVID-19 has recently revolvedaround an ambitious target the government set for itself: the goal of carrying out 1...
At a recent lunch, discussion turned to the question of who
had been the country’s worst ever prime minister. The usual suspects were
rolled out: Lord North, t...
