[…] notional, in exchange for contracts. Occasional attempts by MPs to interfere with this particular gravy train are simply brushed off. At the end of last year the MoD simply refused to release – even to MPs – a report from the Audit Office on its spending.4 And there’s the money being or 2 Unison […]
[…] better than the public; in this case, that the private sector could implement change faster than the state, could shake-up the rigid bureaucracies of the Pentagon and MOD to create the new, dynamic forces for the rapidly changing strategic environments (etc. etc., boilerplate, boilerplate). And hey, if we make a load of money in […]
[…] The author has been briefed by someone – I would guess not a million miles from outgoing Defence Secretary Wallace – knowledgeable about the bizarre goings-on at MOD procurement and gives a couple of barely believable examples. 32 8 inflation. They have to create uncertainty and frailty, because it’s only when companies feel nervous […]
[…] The author has been briefed by someone – I would guess not a million miles from outgoing Defence Secretary Wallace – knowledgeable about the bizarre goings-on at MOD procurement and gives a couple of barely believable examples. 19 5 Mastercard, whose ads are on YouTube. Its APR (annual percentage rate) was 34.9% when I […]
[PDF file]: […] forbid the sales of Pegasus to governments that regularly violated human rights, but the petition was waved away. The Supreme Court in Israel refused to interfere with MOD decision-making, or to air the suit in public, or to even release the full text of the judgement to the public. The judges agreed with the […]
