Yes - the top level are part of the NU10K. The NU10K is about top jobs. The level at which grotesque failure is rewarded by another job. The rest of civil service are as much the problem as the bloke… (View Post)

We didn't need Lend-Lease to eat. After VJ day, the US shut down the supply of *weapons*. The terms of Lend-Lease were - either send the material surviving back, or junk it. Orders in progress w… (View Post)

Based on his public record, his appointment was a major risk - he had resigned multiple times for ethics breaches. If nothing else, he needed a thorough & deep investigation into his activities b… (View Post)

I am waiting for the Lib Dems to formally complain about that bar chart. Go on, make my Monday. (View Post)

The revelation that Mandelson was forwarding other people’s emails from within government to Epstein is pretty startling. The one on government borrowing looks like a straight up leak of confidential… (View Post)