Sue Cameron



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Career: Presented BBC2’s Newsnight, Channel Four News and the ITN Parliament Programme

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 * Oh dear, is this another costly IT failure? - Taxpayers deserve to know why Whitehall computer contracts keep going wrong - 24th July 2014
 * Drowning in the Whitehall piranha pool - The ousting of the part-time head of the Civil Service marks the failure of an attempt to split the top jobs - 17th July 2014
 * Taxmen turn a blind eye to Magna Carta - Ancient freedoms are being put at risk with the threat to raid people’s bank accounts - 26th June 2014
 * Down and out with the man from Whitehall - Civil servants are taking to the streets to see how their policies work in practice - 19th June
 * Don’t let politics get in the way of a good idea - Ministers must ignore short-term victories and work across party lines to solve tricky issues - 12th June
 * Has Theresa May the mettle to follow the Iron Lady? - A row with Michael Gove over Muslim hardliners won’t tarnish her lustrous rise - 5th June 2014
 * The clock is ticking for the traditional elite - Britain’s ruling class can only survive by opening itself up to ordinary people - 30th May 2014
 * Politicians just can’t stop trashing the brand - The mud-slinging and broken promises undermine public trust in the lot of them - 22nd May 2014
 * Little Hannah gets her first taste of immigration red tape -Trying to get a passport for a baby highlights our absurd immigration system - 15th May 2014
 * Our political leaders are losing authority fast - Voters across Europe are fed up with the political elite, but there is a glimmer of hope - 9th May 2014
 * Why should the innocent pay for justice? - As the Nigel Evans case demonstrated, reforms to the legal aid system are seriously flawed - 17th April 2014
 * Mess and muddle as the Scots’ vote looms - The Civil Service’s neutrality over Scottish independence is under fire - 10th April 2014
 * The man who believed in being ruthless with the NHS - The Government owes a debt to the mandarin who steered through tough NHS reforms - 27th March 2014
 * A happiness index makes for sound economics - It’s possible to increase people’s wellbeing without spending more public money - 21st March 2014
 * Margaret Hodge may be hunting her quarry too hard - Negative publicity mayl deter private companies from bidding for outsourced public contracts - 13th March 2014
 * Cameron's caught between a Rock and a hard place - An over-reliance on his old chums is damaging the Prime Minister’s status - 6th March 2014
 * Angela Merkel may be bringing more than a smile - The German leader’s visit could provide the PM with some good news on EU reform - 27th February 2014
 * PMs are proving there’s life without spin - Both here and Down Under, the public are quite happy to hear less from their politicians - 20th February 2014
 * The women of Westminster have had enough - High-flying female MPs and civil servants put off by bullying and one-upmanship - 13th February 2014
 * Of course quango appointments are political - Candidates can have any affiliation, and Labour’s been playing the system for years - 7th February 2014
 * Ed Miliband's lordly wreckers aren’t holding back - Labour’s efforts to kill the EU referendum Bill have helped make its progress a farce - 23rd January 2014
 * Why is outsourcing shrouded in secrecy? - Billions in spending are at stake, and ministers should come clean about the grisly details - 9th January 2014
 * This Government is a hotbed of cold feet - Every time ministers funk or farm out difficult decisions, they lose more authority - 19th December 2013
 * Give Lady Ashton the credit she deserves - Has gender played a part in the treatment of the EU’s power broker - 12th December 2013
 * MoD tanks are parked on the Treasury lawn - Civil Service policies on hiring and firing face criticism from the man overseeing reform - 5th December 2013
 * A Yes vote offers some wonderful 'what ifs’ - If the Scots opt for independence, the negotiations will be endlessly complex - 28th November 2013
 * The bin police get a push from Eric Pickles - Eric Pickles finds a nudge can reform local councils, but Whitehall change is harder - 14th November 2013
 * Our EU exit is looking more like a mirage - The threat of leaving the EU has begun to fade - 7th November 2013
 * A tricky question for Blair, 'the great persuader’ - Tony Blair has plenty of advice for others, but how did he set about getting things done - 30th October 2013
 * Whitehall’s no place for the GOD delusion - Getting ahead is still a case of who you know - 24th October 2013
 * Litigation terrorism isn’t just hurting the press - The huge financial risks of going to court won’t be resolved by fiddling with the current system - 17th October 2013
 * Brown’s mud-slingers eat humble pie - Ed Balls is turning to a once-reviled figure in an effort to win back public trust for his fiscal plans - 10th October 2013
 * Europe’s wings must be clipped – but how? - The clamour for an EU exit is growing just as the moderates are winning wider support - 3rd October 2013
 * Ministers and mandarins are in it together - The trend for naming and shaming civil servants won’t work, as the PM has recognised - 12th September 2013
 * How social media delivered the Syria defeat - Politicians will have to work harder to justify their policies now that voters can tweet MPs - 5th September 2013
 * Whitehall offers transparency by the overstuffed truckload - The facts and figures of government are all there, if only we knew how to find them - 29th August 2013
 * Britain’s foreign legion of missing voters - The search is on for five million expats whose ballots could be vital - 15th August 2013
 * How to fight al-Qaeda from inside a tin can - Life inside our embassy in Yemen lacks some creature comforts, but its mission is vital - 8th August 2013
 * Are we going back to Downton Abbey justice? - The judicial review row is only one part of a system in desperate need of radical reform - 1st August 2013
 * This English question demands an answer - More devolution to Scotland will be the final straw for the Union’s largest country - 25th July 2013
 * Does Whitehall need more party placemen? - Reform of the Civil Service is overdue, but its impartiality may be under threat - 18th July 2013
 * Did Gordon Brown really keep us out of the euro? - Gordon Brown, the great saviour of the pound, actually toyed with ditching it, claim civil servants - 26th June
 * The populists reshaping Westminster politics - A new breed of committee chairmen like Margaret Hodge is making the weather - 20th June 2013
 * Wash the dirty linen in private, minister - Politicians’ relentless criticism of their civil servants is bad manners – and bad tactics - 6th June 2013
 * Who will cut up rough in Star Chamber? - All sides will be busy rehearsing their arguments and even deciding the order in which the Star Chamber judges should speak - 30th May 2013
 * The laws of the land aren’t fit for purpose - Efforts to clarify our complex, intimidating system of legislation are long overdue - 23rd May 2013
 * Mauling for Maude over his plans for change - Bernard Jenkin and his select committee are putting the boot in over Civil Service reform - 16th May 2013
 * Even the Whitehall bonking machine is in revolt - A power grab by the bean-counters in the Cabinet Office has other civil servants in uproar - 9th May 2013
 * Which side is Cameron’s new team on? - His backbench advisers may find their loyalties divided between No 10 and the Commons - 2nd May 2013
 * Let’s make more leg room at the Cabinet table - A crowded No 10 is hardly conducive to good government - 25th April 2013
 * Margaret Thatcher: Will we see another like her? Don’t bet on it - Tories hoping for a return to Thatcher-style majorities have the tide of history against them - 18th April 2013
 * Margaret Thatcher: Face to face with the Lady and her handbag - Both ministers and civil servants felt the smack of firm government when she was around - 11th April 2013
 * Whitehall shouldn’t risk losing its memory - Margaret Thatcher was willing to learn from history – it’s a shame her successors aren’t - 4th April 2013
 * A high price for getting ministers out of a hole - Some public inquiries do their job, but too often they are a waste of time and money - 28th March 2013
 * No 10’s new PR man has Whitehall in a spin - Alex Aiken has ruffled feathers with a full-on critique of the Civil Service’s performance - 14th March 2013
 * Sir David Nicholson doesn’t deserve to be hounded out - The NHS boss could not have known what was happening on the ground during the Mid Staffs hospital crisis - 7th March 2013
 * Sir John Major spies a menace in Whitehall’s midst - The former prime minister Sir John Major argues that ministerial special advisers, or Spads, have little experience of real life - 27th February 2013
 * Should one man take the blame for Mid Staffs? - Calls for the resignation of Sir David Nicholson, the NHS boss, raise profound questions about how we are governed - 21st February 2013
 * Whitehall’s paper tiger is primed for a fight - A tussle over stationery cost-cutting amounts to much more than that in the corridors of power - 14th February 2013
 * Sorry, but police and political cover-ups won’t cut it any more - Our masters talk about transparency, but when trouble strikes they still resort to secrecy - 7th February 2013
 * Ministers and mandarins need to get a grip - Our government system is a mess because of the high turnover of senior civil servants - 31st January 2013
 * Border bullies deterring overseas students show Whitehall at its worst - Bureaucrats are driving the brightest foreign students into the arms of our economic rivals - 24th January 2013
 * Battle lines drawn in Whitehall’s phoney war - There’s always tension between ministers and mandarins, but strong leaders see it through - 17th January 2013
 * Tinker, tailor, soldier... and a central banker - The Treasury’s cloak-and-dagger interviews are hardly an advert for open government - 10th january 2013
 * Kings, queens and the political chess match - Monarchs have been exercising royal power at Cabinet meetings throughout history - 20th December 2012
 * Sir Jeremy’s Civil Service just isn’t working - The messy decision to split the top job has caused chaos among Whitehall’s mandarins - 13th December 2012
 * MPs and the press have battled for centuries - Whatever Lord Leveson comes up with today, Parliament has more power than it thinks - 29th November 2012
 * BBC crisis: At 90, Auntie will have to change her ways - As an old BBC hand, I can see that it requires fundamental reform if it is to survive - 15th November 2012
 * McDonald’s is beating the McMandarins - The constant turnover of staff in Whitehall is damaging the running of the country - 8th November 2012
 * When it comes to Sir Peter Housden, we have a problem - The civil servant called 'Salmond’s nark’ has fallen foul of hardening attitudes in Whitehall - 1st November 2012
 * David Cameron doesn’t have a Willie – and it shows - The Prime Minister needs an enforcer who can bring order to chaos in the Cabinet - 25th October 2012
 * When the 1922 Committee comes calling, it’s time to go - The lessons of history will not be lost on the Tory Chief Whip, Andrew Mitchell, as he fights to keep his job - 18th October 2012
 * Michael Gove doesn't have the makings of a prime minister - but who has ? - The Education Secretary’s admission that he’s not cut out for No 10 should be applauded - 11th October 2012
 * Why the West Coast franchise is a great Whitehall railway disaster - Ministers and mandarins must work together to avoid repeating the West Coast rail franchise fiasco - 4th October 2012
 * Another chapter in the slow death of politics - The public has lost faith in Left and Right – and it’s hard to see how it can be recovered - 27th September 2012
 * Are QCs the answer in the search for truth? - The use of barristers by the banking inquiry may turn the tables on the greedy and corrupt - 20th September 2012
 * George Osborne and Iain Duncan Smith could ruin welfare reform - David Cameron needs to stop the ministerial infighting between George Osborne and Iain Duncan Smith before the Government's universal credit scheme fails - 13th September 2012
 * Whitehall’s new boys gain a helping hand - A 'getting-to-know-you’ guide is trying to stop ministers and officials making an early mess - 6th September 2012
 * Lift-off from Heathrow is a flight of fancy - Tim Yeo’s intervention strengthens the calls for stricter curbs on select committee chairmen - 30th August 2012
 * The bar is set too high for Olympic honours - We need to end outdated, class-ridden distinctions between different types of gongs and ensure that everyone’s achievements have a fair chance of being recognised - 23rd August 2012
 * Why are mandarins running for the exit? - Civil servants feel undermined by ministers’ push for greater power - 16th August 2012
 * Who among the Tory high command is heading for the reshuffle blues?  - Moving ministers is always a painful process – but new blood must have its chance - 26th July 2012
 * Bob is no rough Diamond - The ex-Barclays boss didn’t have much choice about his bonus - 19th July 2012
 * The nudge, nudge unit has ways to make you pay - Can Whitehall's Behavioural Insights Team save us all billions - 12th July 2012
 * PFI is the boondoggle to end them all - The private funding of public projects is no silver bullet – as a £1.2 billion hospital shows - 28th June 2012



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