Government and the Governed
Six talks by Sir Douglas Wass , GCB, Permanent
Secretary to HM Treasury and Joint Head of the Home Civil Service until his retirement in the spring of this year.
1: United Thoughts and Counsels
Good government has traditionally been associated with prosperity and contentment. It must be efficient and responsive, above all In its central decision-taking processes. Our present machinery of government provides little guarantee that Ministers collectively will make rational choices between different pollcy options on our ehalf.