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TfL price rises wiped out by fare dodgers
Research by the Centre for Government Reform demonstrates that almost the entirety of the increase in TfL fares went straight to covering losses caused by fair evaders. Fare evasion on the underground costs TfL £165m each year, whilst the fare rise is projected to raise £168m. Our CEO Ameer Kotecha is quoted in the article:…
The civil service’s war on expertise
After it emerged that the Treasury dropped its numeracy tests to boost diversity, our CEO Ameer Kotecha wrote about the importance of subject matter expertise, and the civil service's abandonment of it.
Is this any way to run the economy? Would-be Chancellor Ed Miliband’s staff are allowed to work from home most days and only have to go into the office for 40 per cent of the month
Ed Miliband's staff are allowed to spend most of their days working from home.
Daily Mail
‘Seriously misleading!’ Civil service ‘covering up how many staff are actually working from home’
The Civil Service has been accused of covering up how many staff are really working from home.
GB News
Civil Service accused of home working cover-up
Departments are able to claim 100 per cent office occupancy even when staff are working remotely
The Telegraph
Labour ‘putting HR above modernising Armed Forces’
Whitehall takes on 2,000 more human resources workers while making cuts to staff working on defence improvements
The Telegraph
‘Career civil servants’ dominate Whitehall as dossier reveals 61% of top mandarins haven’t worked in private sector
Political parties of all stripes have been calling for a major shake-up in Whitehall for decades
GB News
Why the civil service delivers failure
Whitehall’s lanyard class is far more interested in ‘process’ than results.
Spiked
Voters sick of our politicians’ failure to put Britain first
What voters have announced – in the most unambiguous terms since Brexit – is that they’re done with the idea we have to prioritise other people and other things over what is in the interests of ordinary working British people.
The Daily Express
A Prime Minister on borrowed time cannot run the country
While ministers squabble, the civil service risks grinding to a halt, writes former diplomat Ameer Kotecha
LBC
EXC: Treasury Hires for Senior National Savings and Investments Role Without Any Need for Understanding of Financial Markets
The Treasury had advertised for a senior civil servant to lead sponsorships in the National Savings and Investments. No knowledge of financial markets required…
Guido Fawkes
Business leaders, I beseech you, join the government and steer the ship of state
Private sector business leaders embody the antithesis of what the Westminster machine has become, which is exactly why it needs them so desperately, writes Ameer Kotecha
City AM
Fury as back-to-work agency looked for £220k boss who’s never worked in the private sector
The DWP is recruiting a £220,000 boss to get Britons into work without requiring private sector experience - as critics say it simply 'cannot be right'.
The Daily Express
Tech bosses line up for Cabinet under new Whitehall plans
Former diplomat Ameer Kotecha explains how – from selling off the family silver to refusing to promote British produce – the Foreign Office actually does the opposite of defending the UK’s interests abroad.
City AM
Bosses, generals and tech chiefs to be trained for high office
Former diplomat Ameer Kotecha explains how – from selling off the family silver to refusing to promote British produce – the Foreign Office actually does the opposite of defending the UK’s interests abroad.
The Sunday Times
I resigned from the Foreign Office in protest at what it has become – here are five things that will shock you about the department
Former diplomat Ameer Kotecha explains how – from selling off the family silver to refusing to promote British produce – the Foreign Office actually does the opposite of defending the UK’s interests abroad.
Independent
UK foreign policy is choked by lawyers, says departing diplomat
Ameer Kotecha said as he resigned that Britain’s civil service had changed from a Rolls-Royce into ‘a banged-up hatchback’
The Times
EXPOSED: Britain’s ‘untouchable’ Civil Service eating up taxpayer cash and why it’s worse than ever
Kotecha discusses recruitment and promotion practices, workplace culture, performance management, and the balance between process and delivery.
Chopper's Political Podcast
Government Insider BREAKS SILENCE on “Deeply WOKE” Deep State
A revealing conversation about power, bureaucracy, and what happens when political ideology begins to reshape the machinery of the state.
Winston Marshall Show
I spent a decade in the Civil Service. It’s even worse than you think
In shocking detail, one ex-mandarin describes a culture where no one is accountable, sick days are off the scale and unions block any reform
The Telegraph
Foreign Office fails to put Britain first. That’s why I’ve quit
Civil service has too few officials with science or tech backgrounds, or any private sector experience.
The Times