@OborneTweets Congratulations to Peter Oborne and Richard Heller on their excellent and thought provoking history of cricket- told me much that I didn’t know and spot on about surrender to finance and erosion of spirit of the game.
Peter Riddell
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Former Commissioner for Public Appointments; past Director of the Institute for Government; ex-journalist; Londoner and parent; author of '15 Minutes of Power'
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My latest blog about the government’s neglect of standards in public life for The Constitution Unit at UCL constitution-unit.com/2025/05/30/the…
The Government needs to follow publication of Ministerial Code with clarity on the role and powers of proposed Ethics and Integrity Commission - especially relations with existing regulators and @PublicStandards to avoid overlap and confusion.
Two increasingly used terms of political reporting - ‘rolling the pitch’ and ‘Trump’s whisperer’- should be banned. They are both meaningless and irritating - a substitute for accurate description.
Now the Ministerial Code is at last out, the Govt should start consulting about the proposed Ethics and Integrity Commission; conflicts of interest, lobbying and rules for post- govt employment; strengthening scrutiny of Lords and public appointments, as in @ConUnit_UCL blog