Anne Perkins
Anne Perkins has been a leader writer, lobby correspondent and feature writer for the Guardian since 1997
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The ‘cash in, results out’ model isn’t working. There are better ways to improve care and motivate staff
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If holding vital public bodies to account is a mark of a civilised, functioning democracy, we’re not in a good place
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The capital’s first Muslim mayor feels like an important normalisation of public life amid the unreadable picture thrown up across the country
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Severin Carrell, Anne Perkins and Martin Kettle join Tom Clark to discuss national election results in Wales and Scotland and local election results in England
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Philip Green will be alright, but his workers may not. But this is how it currently works in this age of shareholder power that needs to be consigned to history
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David Cameron tells the Commons he’s pressing on with his plans, but opposition from Conservatives at all levels is widespread
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The Panama Papers will lead to the dynamiting of Tory credibility, but new work and pensions secretary, Stephen Crabb, is unlikely to prove the saviour of his party’s reputation
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Donald Trump outraged even conservative Republicans with his thoughts on punishing women who control their bodies. Yet the same thing happens in a part of the UK
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As Tata prepares to leave the UK, the government needs to find the cash to hold up the steel industry – and prove that things have moved on since the 80s
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The Brussels attacks have provoked outpourings of grief on social media. Public figures may feel obliged to share, but there are better ways to react
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The prime minister attempted to call a truce between the warring flanks of his party. It wasn’t an unqualified success
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We have grown cynical about celebrity stunts, but who can begrudge success to one who risked so much?
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Cambridgeshire is just one of many authorities forced to cut social care, leaving increasing numbers of elderly people stuck in hospital wards or waiting in A&E
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The Labour leadership is recruiting Mariana Mazzucato and Thomas Piketty to revolutionise thinking about the way the UK economy should work
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MPs demand full inquiry after Monitor gave go-ahead for Addenbrooke’s deal that collapsed just eight months later
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Putting some Middlesbrough refugees in homes that were identifiable must have looked like an invitation to the lowlife who picked them out for terrifying attacks
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Anne Perkins, Michael White and Alberto Nardelli join Tom Clark to discuss how electoral and party funding rule changes being brought in by the government will disadvantage Labour at the next election
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News that a London clinic is rejecting dyslexic donors raises questions about the line between avoiding disease and seeking unattainable genetic perfection
First thoughts Labour must speak up for Europe, before it’s too late