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.
A coup d’état, as originally defined, is a coup inflicted by the state on the people. This makes COVID-19 a coup d’état, says Dr James Alexander. Modern politics could be considered death by a thousand coups.
Governments of every political stripe have complained that the civil service obstructs their plans. Dr David McGrogan looks at how a little known legal ruling gets in the way of bring civil servants to heel.
"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.
Civil service lawyers have been accused of trying to scupper Kemi Badenoch's schools trans guidance following a leak which claimed the guidance has a "high risk of successful legal challenge".
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.
J Sorel reviews The Right to Rule and The Plot for the Daily Sceptic and is unconvinced that Britain is ruled by schemers and intriguers. They're no match for the courts, the Civil Service and the Ministerial Code.
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.
The Cabinet Secretary has been warned by senior civil servants of a “woke takeover of Whitehall” that risks “improperly” influencing Government policy.
Civil servants face a crackdown on working from home as ministers plan the end of the 'Tuesday to Thursday' office culture in Whitehall that is blamed for plummeting productivity since the pandemic.
