For all its ills, this government hasn't yet been caught feeding lucrative government contracts to its mates through some sort of off-grid priority channel (View Post)

+1 It’s reasonable to hate on SeanT, since he’s an ignorant racist trolling twat, but otherwise, this site is an exemplar of what people hoped for from the internet, before it all started to go bandy… (View Post)

Indeed. If you spend with them over a period, they know that looking after you makes sense (View Post)

Senior politicians in shock at realising that their civil servants simply see them as the latest short-run intrusion into their career-long destiny to run the country themselves, on our behalf. Welco… (View Post)

I remember back when I entered the public sector fresh from uni back in the early 1980s, one of the old lags took me aside and told me the secret to survival, which was apparently to “always keep my … (View Post)