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London’s financial pre-eminence? Spare me the shroud waving!

Doctors and managers in the NHS are often accused of shroud waving whenever cuts are proposed. You know how it goes, “Cut NHS budgets and thousands of people will diiiiie!!!” It’s usually enough to send most politicians running for cover...

Published 28 Jul 2009 11:41 AM by Flip Chart Fairy Tales

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Curbing bankers’ pay

Many of the early reports on the Walker Review suggested that banks were to be forced to publish the pay details of their top earners. In fact the review simply recommends that total remuneration of those paid over the executive board median should be...

Published 18 Jul 2009 6:58 PM by Flip Chart Fairy Tales

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Should (or could) HR have reined in bankers’ bonuses?

Jon Ingham is a man for whom I have a lot of respect and his blog is one of my regular reads. This comment on the Walker Review is complete bollocks though: [F]inancial services HR departments are partly if not largely to blame for the banks’ failures...

Published 17 Jul 2009 2:41 PM by Flip Chart Fairy Tales

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Are today’s managers more cowardly than their predecessors?

Charlie McMenamin says that no-one should be allowed to pontificate about public spending cuts until they have read this article by former Revolutionary Communist Party member James Heartfield. Given that I intend to continue banging on about the public...

Published 12 Jul 2009 5:39 PM by Flip Chart Fairy Tales

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Deloitte partner calls for legislation to force shared services on the public sector

When the government published its Operational Efficiency Programme report the day before the budget, I expressed some doubt about the £9 billion a year savings it identified. It’s not that the opportunities to reduce costs are not there but that...

Published 11 Jul 2009 4:54 PM by Flip Chart Fairy Tales

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That public sector pay freeze

Steve Bundred’s call for public sector pay freeze has provoked howls of outrage from public sector unions. Perhaps more serious, though, is the charge that such a measure would be counterproductive. Will Hutton argues that the government needs to...

Published 10 Jul 2009 6:16 PM by Flip Chart Fairy Tales

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Tough guy Cameron takes on the quangos

David Cameron has rejected Audit Commission boss Steve Bundred’s suggestion that a public sector pay freeze would go some way towards making badly needed public spending cuts. Instead he’s proposing to save money by cutting back on quangos...

Published 6 Jul 2009 9:02 PM by Flip Chart Fairy Tales

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Whitehall gears up for a Tory victory

The Mirror’s Jason Beattie has been having some off-the-record conversations with civil servants. His piece in the Local Government Chronicle describes how Whitehall is preparing for a Tory victory next year. Despite the talk of public spending...

Published 3 Jul 2009 10:42 AM by Flip Chart Fairy Tales

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Ring-fencing health and education – craven populist rubbish!

An honest debate about public spending came a step closer yesterday when Gordon Brown sort of admitted that he might have to make some cuts. He’s still saying that front-line services won’t be affected, though, which is almost certainly rubbish...

Published 2 Jul 2009 8:52 PM by Flip Chart Fairy Tales

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London’s financial pre-eminence? Spare me the shroud waving!

Curbing bankers’ pay

Should (or could) HR have reined in bankers’ bonuses?

Are today’s managers more cowardly than their predecessors?

Deloitte partner calls for legislation to force shared services on the public sector

That public sector pay freeze

Tough guy Cameron takes on the quangos

Whitehall gears up for a Tory victory

Ring-fencing health and education – craven populist rubbish!