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The Sir Oliver Dowden sketchy behaviour monitor, part four
Two years, £435,250, five employers and a lot of Abu Dhabi. We’ve finally put Sir Oliver’s second (and third, and…
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The Sir Oliver Dowden sketchy behaviour monitor, part three
A pay rise for MPs – and a really big one for Sir Oliver Dowden How much money is it…
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DC01UK: data centre drama
It’s a few months since we learnt that Europe’s biggest data centre might be built here in Hertsmere – what…
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Captain Dowden’s new national security role
There’s an intriguing detail in Rishi Sunak’s mini-reshuffle* It wasn’t announced at the time and it wasn’t in…
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What is the point of Oliver Dowden?
Politics is a cruel business Oliver Dowden has been overlooked. Rishi reshuffled but left his fixer out of…
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Minister for Flannel
Ministers are regularly required to show up and look credible before the various committees of the UK Parliament…
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Job done
How do you turn a respectable, if old-fashioned, pillar of the post-war liberal establishment into a weak, discredited…
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When you’re 20 points behind in the polls…
Second jobs, woke nonsense, stolen artworks, a taskforce that’s done literally nothing – what your MP’s been up…
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Resilience schmesilience
Here in the suburbs we like to think we are not mugs. We know a distraction when we…