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Category Archives: General
What really matters?
The front page story of the Telegraph on Saturday had an extraordinary snippet: Frank Luntz, an American polling expert, visited Downing Street and addressed a group of advisers. The friend said: “The pollster asked them what kept them awake at … Continue reading
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Tagged Backbenchers, Confidence, Delivery, Economy, Effort, EU, MPs, Narrative, Referendum, Work
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Don’t offer UKIP a coalition, instead promote from within
Today there has been a number of calls by Conservative MPs and commentators for the Tories to form a deal with UKIP. This would take the form of an electoral pack, a formal coalition and offering kippers government positions. This is … Continue reading
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The possibility of reality must match the rhetoric
The Guardian this morning is running an ‘exclusive’ about the Ministry of Defence asking the Department for International Development for contributions to the cost of delivering overseas development assistance via the military (things like transporting DfID and NGO staff and … Continue reading
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Tagged Aid, Burglars, Delivery, Human Rights, Internal Politicking, Making a Difference, Reality, Security, Spending
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See-through future
One of the things that we – largely – take for granted is access to information. Yet as this government works through its programme, we are getting access to more and more information with, crucially, context (that’s how we know … Continue reading
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Tagged Accountability, Companies, Development, Fairness, Responsibility, Rule of law, Transparency
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“Seriously, what’s the point?”
At the risk of overdoing the political-ness of the events of the last few days, I think this tweet from Dan Hodges is worth pondering. I rarely disagree very fundamentally with Tim Montgomerie – I always find that even where … Continue reading →