Watching the inspectors - The promise is more autonomy if you're good. But to prove you're good, you have to be inspected according to nationally set standards. So the Treasury is still in control

Crumbs, is that all we get? - Most civil servants can only blink at the high, band-busting salaries being offered to lure recruits from the private sector. For veterans and new fast-stream graduates, the effect is the same: Deep dissatisfaction with the way the cake is divided up

Ryan, Craig, (2000)

Modernising mandarin - Cabinet secretary Sir Richard Wilson has made a name for himself as a people-person who's also leading the government's modernising agenda in Whitehall

Ryan, Craig, (2000)

Servants of Holyrood - The government is committed to maintaining unified civil service machine after Scottish devolution. But that arrangement may not survive the new reporting lines being put in place

Ryan, Craig, (1999)