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in title, tags, annotations or urlHidden costs of state education are stigmatising poorer pupils - 0 views
The police's response to the Ashya King case is deeply troubling | John Cooper | Comment is free | theguardian.com - 0 views
Edward Snowden is a traitor, just as surely as George Blake was - Telegraph - 0 views
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Britain, whose intelligence cooperation with America is probably uniquely deep in the history of the world,
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Indeed, it is no accident that the greatest trust in the intelligence world is that between Britain, America, Australia, New Zealand and Canada – sometimes known in this field as the Five Eyes. This exists because of a common experience of kinship, language, war and living under law-based liberty. It is emphatically not the product of untrammelled state power, but of a culture that knows that its eyes (five pairs being better than one) need to scan the horizon to stay free.
National police unit monitors 9,000 'domestic extremists' - 0 views
MICHAEL MANSFIELD With the Met, if you are innocent you have everything to worry about - 0 views
How can we invest our trust in a government that spies on us? MONBIOT - 0 views
Software that tracks people on social media created by defence firm - 0 views
Does the state owe a duty to inform the wronged? - 0 views
One Tiny State's Movement to Ban Private Prisons » Counterpunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names - 0 views
Reforms will end state control of public services - Telegraph - 0 views
Nick Clegg: Hugo Young lecture 2010 | Politics | guardian.co.uk - 0 views
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Reversing a century of centralisation
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The coalition government is beginning to rewrite the rules of British politics. It is of course still early days. We are six months into one of the boldest experiments in British politics, six months into a five year coalition government.
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Old progressives measure success by the power and spending of the central state. New progressives measure it by the power and freedom of individual citizens.
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FT.com / Comment / Opinion - Slash and burn won't cure Whitehall - 0 views
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It is also important that the cuts agenda does not deflect from wider reforms. First, the civil service and ministerial merry-go-round needs to be ended, with project management skills improved. In 2009, I became the fifth transport secretary in barely three years. In my previous three-and-a-half years as schools minister, I served under three secretaries of state in a department renamed and reorganised twice. This is no way to run the country.It is a similar story with the civil service, which is often far from permanent or expert, despite its image. As schools minister, driving forward the multibillion pound academy schools policy to replace failing schools, the biggest single obstacle I faced was the weakness of the Whitehall machine. In eight years I saw six directors of the academies programme come and go, for reasons entirely divorced from the requirements of the programme. All were capable, but policymaking and project management skills were often lacking.