Private firms ‘gaming’ £100bn of government services, says think-tank Oliver Wright Thursday, 18 July 2013 Private companies providing public services are routinely “gaming the system” to make money for their shareholders at the expense of the taxpayer, a major new… Read More ›
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Revealed: Serious Fraud Office chief who worked at home spent £100,000 on travel costs
Phillippa Williamson was allowed to run up bill in deal criticised as ‘quite astounding’ by MPs Nigel Morris Wednesday, 17 July 2013 Taxpayers spent £100,000 in travel and hotel costs for the former head of the Serious Fraud Office (SFO)… Read More ›
Queen Elizabeth may have more power than we thought
Posted By Joshua Keating Tuesday, January 15, 2013 – 11:39 AM Back in December, after Queen Elizabeth attended a Cabinet meeting — the first British monarch to do so since the American revolution — I wrote a half-serious post wondering… Read More ›
Simon Burns, minister responsible for train fares, uses £80,000-a-year chauffeur-driven government car to ‘avoid overcrowded trains’
News is likely to provoke more anger from commuters still reeling from the New Year inflation-busting rise in train fares last week. Rob Williams Sunday, 6 January 2013 The minister responsible for rail fares, Simon Burns, is under fire today… Read More ›
Record 81% of Japanese feel no friendship toward China, government survey shows
Sunday, Nov. 25, 2012 Jiji More than 80 percent of Japanese harbor no sense of friendship toward China, an annual survey by the Cabinet Office revealed Saturday. Some 80.6 percent of respondents said they have no friendly feelings toward the… Read More ›
Major Japanese university server sites hacked
Servers at the University of Tokyo and four other major universities in Japan have apparently been attacked by hackers, resulting in leaks of IDs and passwords to databases at those schools, it has been learned. A group of hackers identifying… Read More ›
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