6 articles
• via the Guardian
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood centralises control over 43 failing police forces with targets and mergers, repeating structural fixes that ignore past failures and perverse incentives. Outcomes remain unchanged across governments.
• via The Telegraph
Downing Street reduces lobby briefings to curb uncontrollable questions, repeating cross-party efforts at narrative control. History shows such moves fail but erode public access to unfiltered government accountability.
• via The Spectator
Downing Street overhauls lobby system, cutting briefings and inviting content creators amid fury from journalists. The cross-party pattern erodes transparency as governments dodge accountability when polls plummet.
• via Forces News
Defence ministry pledges £9bn for service family homes yet refuses spending details, repeating cross-party patterns of vague announcements amid persistent squalor and recruitment woes. Families see botched repairs, not transformation.
• via The Standard
Tower Hamlets council dismisses a fraud suspect from 2018 schemes, but EY auditors decry probe shortfalls and list ten control failures in procurement. Taxpayer losses mount amid deflections to 'legacy' issues.
• via The Guardian
At least 15 south coast sewage facilities use risky bio-beads with no regulatory oversight, exposing chronic infrastructure neglect and privatization failures that threaten marine life and deprived communities. Spills persist across decades, unaddressed by water companies prioritizing profits.