Author : Michael Coolican
Publisher : Biteback Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1785904574
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis No Tradesmen and No Women by : Michael Coolican
Download or read book No Tradesmen and No Women written by Michael Coolican and published by Biteback Publishing. This book was released on 2018-11-20 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is our civil service fit for purpose? Michael Coolican takes John Reid's damning statement about the Home Office as his point of departure for a comprehensive overview and evaluation of the machinery behind the government and the people who make public services work on a daily basis. Beginning with Henry VIII's chief minister Thomas Cromwell, Michael Coolican takes us on an odyssey through the history of the British civil service, starting with a time when public positions were sold and traded through Royal Warrant. Coolican examines the radical reforms of the Victorian era which entrenched a culture of elitism, misogyny and distrust of high-quality data as a basis for decision making, that, in some areas, persists to this day. A former high-level civil servant with forty years of experience, Coolican has produced a pithy and, where necessary, ruthless analysis of the civil service and its relationship with government, especially at Cabinet level, bringing to bear detailed and extensive research informed by a true insider.
