As ever on here, many of those who've never worked in the Civil Service demonstrate a fundamental misunderstanding. (Senior) civil servants have two main roles: 1. to carry out the policy instru… (View Post)

My daughter has. She attributes the very high turnover in the chef world to the behaviour of many head chefs. They're not all like that, though; she worked for Ottolenghi and thought he was grea… (View Post)

Fabulous defence of Raab emerging on here. "He may be a bit of a bully, but he's nowhere near as bad as Gordon Brown, Alex Ferguson or Adolf Hitler". (View Post)

FPT: Any moment now I expect to read how the rabid Remainers in the tofu-eating wokerati who have hegemony in the senior echelons of the Civil Service have brought down a decent, honourable man. (View Post)

On Raab, it's really not difficult. Any manager or leader who resorts to intimidation, shouting, or belittling those who work for them on a regular basis is, by definition, useless. Raab is, by … (View Post)