Civil Service

Taxpayer Spends £4 Million on Government Lawyers’ Home Working Equipment

Whitehall lawyers have splurged nearly £4 million of taxpayer money on gadgets like laptops and mobile phones for working from home since 2021, according to data obtained under the Freedom of Information Act.
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“We Need to Find Ways to Suppress Douglas Murray and Joe Rogan”: Inside a Counter-Terrorism Course for U.K. Civil Servants

"We need to find ways to suppress Douglas Murray and Joe Rogan": former civil servant Anna Stanley exposes the truth about what UK civil servants are taught in counter-terrorism courses.
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It’s Not That Ministers Can’t Control Their Civil Servants – They Can’t Even Influence Them

Ian Price bemoans the grip of 'the blob' on U.K. Government departments, highlighting ministers futilely grappling with controlling civil servants and the stark divide between public opinion and official actions.
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Rot in the Civil Service: Farewelling Mike Pezzullo

There was no better example of Australia’s politicised public service than its Home Affairs Secretary, Mike Pezzullo.  In most other countries, he would have been the ideal conspirator in a coup, a tittletattler in the ranks and bound to brief against those he did not like.  Give him a dagger, and he was bound to […]
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“My Home Office Colleagues Would Think I Was Insane If I Suggested Ways of Cutting Immigration”

A civil servant at the Home Office has said that his colleagues would "ring the mental health services to check in on my sanity" if he were ever to propose ways of cutting immigration.
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