Michael Gove

  • Michael Gove
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    Wouldn’t you like to live in the past?

    2010-01-08T00:00:00

    Splendid architecture, fully staffed train stations in every village, motorway service stations serving the produce of local farms … Michael Gove makes his (optimistic) predictions for 2010

  • Michael Gove
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    Cutting bureaucracy: Smash the system!

    2009-11-27T00:00:00

    The spirit of adventure will thrive again, but only if we free it from the soul-crushing bureaucracy of planning rules, building regs, safety protocols and sustainability

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    The evil that men do

    2009-10-23T00:00:00

    The government’s removal of empty property rate relief has been universally recognised as a wicked and ungodly act. Even Alistair Darling seems to have grasped this

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    Would I have been blacklisted, too?

    2009-07-31T00:00:00

    It’s completely understandable that firms want to do a spot of ‘due diligence’ when hiring workers. It may also mean that they lose out … Michael Gove makes the case for selective amnesia

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    Who’s the fairest of them all?

    2009-07-03T00:00:00

    Housing ministers have come and gone faster than a weaver’s shuttle – some doing better than others. Michael Gove gives us the best and the worst and reveals the secret of a successful tenure

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    Your solution is the problem

    2009-04-03T00:00:00

    A good way to enrage someone who’s in trouble is to offer to help, then stamp on their foot … which is what the government has done to those working on education schemes

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    The sayings of Bernard Cribbins

    2009-02-27T00:00:00

    We’re back in the seventies… the decade of endless teabreaks, sclerotic roads and paralysed government – as portrayed in the work of a certain popular actor

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    Buckaroo!

    2009-01-23T00:00:00

    One reason we’re in this mess is because the government has loaded developers with a weird assortment of tasks – which suggests an analogy with a well-known game

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    Not quite a pick-me-up

    2008-12-05T00:00:00

    The pre-Budget report should have been the equivalent of a cask-strength Macallan, but it was more like a bucket of cold water – and we’re still heading for a hangover

  • Michael Gove
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    How to score a bull’s-eye

    2008-10-24T00:00:00

    The government is way off target on its schools building programme. So what, precisely, would the Tories do if they were in charge? Michael Gove takes aim

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    Payback time

    2008-09-12T00:00:00

    The government’s housing rescue package is too little too late, says Michael Gove, and it has left the public to pick up the tab for past mistakes

  • Michael Gove
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    I admit it all! I’m a conservative!

    2008-08-08T00:00:00

    But when you compare the glories of traditional architecture to the stuff we build now, it’s hard not to be, says Michael Gove, our man in the bicycle clips with the neatly knotted tie

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    An old foe with new faces

    2008-06-20T00:00:00

    Many of our present economic difficulties are really different forms of the same problem: our sclerotic planning system. Time to do something about it, says Michael Gove

  • Michael Gove
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    It’s housing, stupid

    2008-04-25T00:00:00

    What’s the one thing that affects our personal wellbeing, our personal wealth and our personal future more than any other? And what do you think might happen to any government that threatens it?

  • Michael Gove, MP for Surrey Heath and Shadow secretary for children
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    The kiss of death

    2008-03-14T00:00:00

    Michael Gove A new breed of innovative school was beginning to emerge in England – until the government stepped in to help it with its ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV Schools for the Future programme

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    Here to go

    2008-02-22T00:00:00

    Our latest columnist, Tory shadow minister Michael Gove, ponders how long Caroline Flint will hold on to her job – especially after that debut speech …