I went to a school full of farmers children who were all taken out of school for the Countryside Alliance march. One of them snidely asked me what I did during the march and I told them I'd been… (View Post)

You also need Ministers who are willing to incur the wrath of certain groups. I've seen the following process play out time and again in the Civil Service: 1.) Minister wants improvement in mass… (View Post)

I feel like I'm being unnecessarily argumentative but the people who run departments are Ministers not Civil Servant. I know there are plenty of duffers among the top grades but who is responsib… (View Post)

Thanks. The problems with your foreign tax documents aren't because people aren't working hard though. There are a lot of things that can be done to reform the Civil Service and make it ope… (View Post)

I'm using an annual leave day to care for my sick husband if you want to know. I can't use them to actually go and travel because he's too ill so I might as well use them to provide a … (View Post)