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4 weeks ago | 
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1 month ago | 
civilserviceworld.com | Beckie Smith |Mike Clancy
The civil service must become “more agile, mission-focused and more productive”, Keir Starmer and cabinet secretary Sir Chris Wormald have said, following this weekend’s announcement of plans for major reform.
The prime minister and the civil service’s top official used an all-staff email to say the government’s “ambitious vision for national renewal” will require “a rewiring of the British state – creating a renewed civil service; more agile, mission-focused and more productive”.
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1 month ago | 
civilserviceworld.com | Sam Trendall |Mike Clancy
The government is inviting civil servants to apply to join a newly established “low-code community”.
The group has been added to the 20-plus collection of “communities of practice” listed in government’s Service Manual. The aim of the communities is to allow civil servants specialised in various disciplines and methods to “connect with digital people like you from across government”.
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1 month ago | 
civilserviceworld.com | Mike Clancy |Jim Dunton
Since his latest inauguration and the subsequent installation of Elon Musk as efficiency tsar, the world has been looking on with fascination as Donald Trump systematically dismantles public services in the United States. For anyone with an interest in good governance and workers’ rights, it has been horrifying to watch.
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Jan 20, 2025 | 
newsmax.com | Mike Clancy
As we celebrate the inauguration of President Trump and say goodbye to the destructive malaise of the Biden administration, I have great hope for America in 2025.
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Apr 7, 2024 | 
labourlist.org | Mike Clancy
Prospect does not affiliate to a political party, and we seriously try to work across the political spectrum. If I could say anything positive about the Conservatives in government then I would, but of late, it has become impossible. The mismanagement of public services and those who work in them, the labour market deregulatory fixations and the dismal attitude to trade unions leaves no space to explore any common ground.
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Feb 28, 2024 | 
labourlist.org | Mike Clancy
It is fair to say that few incoming Labour Prime Ministers have inherited more challenges in delivering what some say is the first task of government – to defend the nation – than Keir Starmer should he become Prime Minister this year. A new report in The Telegraph suggesting the Chancellor may respond to the warming up of the New Cold War by freezing the MoD’s funding in next week’s Budget will make the task even harder. Budgets have never been lower.
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Feb 2, 2024 | 
newsmax.com | Mike Clancy
(Editor's note: The following column does not constitute an endorsement for any political party, or candidate on the part of Newsmax.)
It is time to stand with Texas.
We have an unprecedented crisis at our southern border.
For three years now Biden and the Democrats have operated our border as a wide-open gateway for massive illegal immigration.
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Jan 31, 2024 | 
civilserviceworld.com | Mike Clancy |Jim Dunton
The last few years have been a period of extreme challenge for the UK: the greatest change to our relationship with Europe in decades, a global pandemic, the outbreak of war on European soil and domestic economic and political turmoil.
These pressures have shone a light on the state of our public services after a decade and a half of austerity: stretched to breaking point, with no capacity to deal with any additional shocks to the system.
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Jan 2, 2024 | 
newsmax.com | Mike Clancy
Happy New Year!
2024 is the year of hope for America.
This is the year when we elect a new president, 33 senators, and the entire U.S. House of Representatives.
It is an opportunity for voters to stand up and effect momentous change by shedding the malaise, discord, economic turmoil, and radical extremism foisted on the nation by President Biden and the progressive Democrats over the past three years.
