Government critics blocked from senior public roles, ex-Tory minister claims
Anna Soubry claims she was overlooked for high-profile jobs because of her opposition to Brexit and criticism of Boris Johnson
February 2021
Defence research agency for 'high-risk' projects on cards for UK
Laws to pave way for ‘brainchild’ project of Dominic Cummings – exempt from FoI law and allotted £800m funding
November 2018
Heritage at Risk list adds knights' cave and Grimsby's Kasbah
Historic England register also adds Huddersfield’s first infirmary and ‘an almost perfect Victorian museum’
December 2016
Equality for women in theatre and the arts
Letters: The status quo, where male experience dominates British theatre, will continue as long as this unelected quango refuses to challenge such sexual apartheid
April 2016
The Society interview
Alison Seabrooke: ‘This isn’t the end for local activism’
The head of the axed Community Development Foundation on how local organisations already hit by cuts will have to pick up the slack
December 2015
More than 300 senior public officials paid more than David Cameron
Taking out the trash: how spin doctors wrangle the news
November 2015
It's every Whitehall department for itself in spending review scuffle
David Walker
Spending decisions ignore evidence in favour of politics, as the horsetrading over plans to slash budgets for scientific research shows
May 2014
Other lives
Richard Crossley obituary
Other lives: Champion of tenants through his work setting up the National Tenant Voice and other community projects
April 2014
Labour questions appointment of bankrupt businessman to quango
Tony Caplin resigns as chair of Public Works Loans Board after it is revealed he was bankrupted in 2012
Quango chief steps down after being exposed as bankrupt
Tony Caplin, appointed by David Cameron as head of Public Works Loans Board, resigns after No 10 investigation
Live Q&As
How to govern at arm's length – expert views on quangos
Our experts argue that the landscape of government is confusing and needs reigning in
February 2014
Lisa Jardine is the latest woman gone in the Tory bonfire of the quangos
Polly Toynbee
Polly Toynbee: Putting (male, Tory donor) stooges in charge of regulatory bodies is a corruption of government. It must stop
Are public bodies appointments really all going to Tories?
Our specialist correspondents review recent appointments after Downing St accused of 'determined effort' to oust Labour supporters
Michael Gove says removing Ofsted chief was not a political decision
Lady Morgan, an ex-Tony Blair adviser, could be replaced by Tory donor, but minister denies politicising schools watchdog
November 2012
More jobs for the boys as quangos neglect women
Two out of three invitations to join government bodies go to men, writes Daniel Boffey
October 2012
The British Council: friend or foe?
Educators working overseas complain that the venerable quango's business interests have turned it into a rival
August 2012
Quango cull means UK is "missing out on billions"
Civil service union says abolition of regional bodies will mean UK economy failing to get billions in EU funding
Guardian Opinion cartoon
Martin Rowson on Francis Maude's latest bonfire of the quangos – cartoon
Martin Rowson
Minister says government is on track to abolish 204 public bodies by 2015 under scheme to save at least £2.6bn
Culling quangos is about ideology, not efficiency
David Walker
David Walker: It's not a quango's removal that secures savings – it is stopping doing the work. And that work often continues elsewhere
