Civil Service
Total 12 Posts
Time to ditch Dominic Cummings’ technocratic, mechanical vision of government.
5 min read
Politics cannot be separated from emotion, as the past few months have clearly shown.
Why it matters that so many senior civil servants are quitting under Boris Johnson.
5 min read
Chief adviser Dominic Cummings doesn’t have much time for the civil service, preferring political appointees instead.
Is Dr Fauci a savvy enough public servant?
3 min read
In times of global pandemic, who would you trust most – Top infectious disease expert Dr Anthony Fauci or Donald Trump? Rashmee Roshan Lall explains why the former has political acumen and the latter lacks it.
The Week in Tory #11.
6 min read
Your regular reminder that this government is led by incompetent politicians...
The arrogant and offensive truth twisters.
6 min read
Our anger is because Dominic Cummings was wrong to do what he did. That’s what makes it a righteous anger.
Negotiating events.
11 min read
Professor Chris Grey’s latest Brexit analysis on the background to last week’s UK-EU talks, the government’s drive to expunge ‘all things EU’, update on the civil service row, and how the pressure of events may be shifting how the talks will develop.
Brexit is going feral.
13 min read
Professor Chris Grey’s latest Brexit analysis on how and why we are seeing an intensifying attack on the Civil Service (and judiciary, BBC and some media, business). It is dangerous – but the Government should be wary of hubris.