Past events

The Need for an Impartial Civil Service

Gillian Shephard MP gave the sixteenth Mile End Group on ‘The Need for an Impartial Civil Service’. Professor Rodney Lowe was the respondent

The Changes to the Civil Service from Thatcher to Blair

MEG 15 was given by Sir Christopher Foster and Sir Robin Mountfield

The Aides of British Prime Ministers from Walpole to Blair, 1721 to 2005

Professor George Jones (LSE), discussed ‘The Aides of British Prime Ministers from Walpole to Blair, 1721 to 2005’. David Willetts MP acted as the respondent

How the Prime Minister gets things done; Peter Riddell

At the thirteenth meeting of the Mile End Group Professor Michael Barber the head of the Prime Minister Delivery Unit and Associate Editor of the Times Peter Riddell discussed ‘How the Prime Minister gets things done; Peter Riddell’

Rab, ROBOT and the Fork in the Road

Lord Lawson, Professor Peter Hennessy and Sir Samuel Brittan discussed economic policy in the 1950s at the twelfth meeting of the Mile End Group

The Changing Role of Government in Economic Policy: Searching for the Holy Grail if it Even Exists

At the eleventh meeting of the Mile End Group Sir Samuel Brittan and Lord Peston of Mile End discussed ‘The Changing Role of Government in Economic Policy: Searching for the Holy Grail if it Even Exists’

Contemporary Whitehall Reform: Good and Bad

The tenth meeting of the Mile End Group brought the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Defence Sir Kevin Tebbit and the Associate Editor of the Times, Peter Riddell together to discuss ‘Contemporary Whitehall Reform: Good and Bad’

Cinema-Graphic Representation of Nuclear War

At the ninth meeting of the Mile End Group Matt Grant discussed ‘Cinema-Graphic Representation of Nuclear War’

The History and Sociology of the 1950s

Professor Peter Hennessy and Anthony Sampson discussed ‘The History and Sociology of the 1950s’ at the eighth Mile End Group