Top stories in the latest issue:
TERMINAL DECLINE
The government’s confirmation of funding for UK freeports was great news for "rogue operator" P&O Ferries, and its Dubai state-owned parent DP World.
GOLDSTONE COWBOY
The man chairing the government’s new Office for Value for Money doesn’t have the best track record himself in terms of public service spending.
UNLUCKY STRIKES
Striking outsourced workers at government offices show that Labour still has a long way to go on working conditions and outsourcing.
POCKET MONEY
Gavin Williamson complained about "pockets of low quality" in education back in 2021 – but now he’s doing very well out of one of those low-quality bodies.
IN HIM WE TRUSS...
Venture capitalist Lord Moynihan of Chelsea has called the pursuit of net zero "a religion". Coincidentally, he has large investments in fossil fuel companies.
CALLED TO ORDURE
Commons speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle keeps popping a gasket at Whitehall’s scurvy attitude, with the foreign secretary among his targets.
THE NEW BOYS
Professional PR man and former Crawley council leader Peter Lamb has not made the most impressive start to life as an MP.
COOPER INSULATION
Home secretary Yvette Cooper’s presence at a shindig co-sponsored by Saint-Gobain is not her only connection to events leading up to the Grenfell fire.
BRUSSELS SPROUTS
A trade war looms after the European Commission’s import tariffs on Chinese electric cars came into force on 30 October.