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Posts Tagged: Lord Adonis

WATCH: Adonis defends his claim that the BBC ‘created Farage’

The one-time Transport Secretary is accused of turning into “the crazier, shoutier end of Twitter” and going “a bit Paul Mason”.

8 April 2018 | 140 comments

Daniel Hannan: Brexit will be a success, but swivel-eyed Remainers make the process more costly than it needs to be

The message that some send to Brussels – that if the Eurocrats make it all painful enough then we can be bullied into changing our minds – is mistaken but harmful.

By Daniel Hannan MEP | 15 March 2018 | 444 comments

The Brexit negotiation. Raindrops keep falling on May’s head. But that doesn’t mean her eyes will soon be turning red.

Yes, the negotiation may break down. But some of the playing to the gallery has a ritual element about it, not unlike the staged theatrics of all-in wrestling.

By Paul Goodman | 1 March 2018 | 490 comments

Rebecca Lowe: If May’s review is to be meaningful, it must shatter the illusion that all universities are equal

She will, today, talk of “identify[ing] ways to help young people make more effective choices when they leave school”. This could be promising.

By Rebecca Lowe | 19 February 2018 | 82 comments

Daniel Hannan: No matter how much Tusk might wish it, there will be no second referendum, and no cancellation of Brexit

A bit of romantic rhetoric from Brussels cannot change the fact that their only offers – before and after we voted Leave – have been provocatively unacceptable.

By Daniel Hannan MEP | 18 January 2018 | 440 comments

Henry Newman: Recently, a Cabinet minister for ‘No Deal’ might have been helpful. Now, it would risk looking crass.

Adonis claims that morale Civil Service morale is in free fall. In fact, November’s Civil Service Survey showed staff engagement was up to its highest level since 2009.

By Henry Newman | 9 January 2018 | 74 comments

Another attempt to give vulnerable children the chance to go to boarding schools

The difficulty is that social workers will be given a veto. Therefore very few children will be given this opportunity.

By Harry Phibbs | 2 January 2018 | 22 comments

Interview: Jo Johnson condemns the hounding of vice-chancellors over their pay

The Universities Minister takes on Lord Adonis, and insists the new regulator will control pay by insisting on transparency and the right benchmarks.

By Andrew Gimson | 8 December 2017 | 12 comments

Blair flaps at the stable door. But the horse runs free.

It was the former Prime Minister himself who presided over the drawing up of the Article 50 process from which there is no known means of resiling.

By Paul Goodman | 11 September 2017 | 185 comments

Taxpayers are entitled to action over fat cat college pay

Claims by universities to be financially independent are nonsense.

By Harry Phibbs | 29 July 2017 | 50 comments

Interview: The double-hatted Suella Fernandes – both a member of the Government and a pro-Leave group leader

She points to the opportunities to imitate New Zealand agriculture, and to crack down on big businesses which evade tax.

By Andrew Gimson | 6 July 2017 | 88 comments

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