Senior Whitehall mandarins want it both ways, says Daily Sceptic columnist J Sorel. They want to exercise political power, but pretend Whitehall is no different from any other workplace, bound by the same codes of conduct.
The 'deep state' is real, and it is powerful. Rock the boat too much and it will find a way to get rid of you, as Dominic Raab found out when he asked civil servants to implement laws to curb the power of activist judges.
In the latest Weekly Sceptic podcast the talking points are Tucker Carlson's sudden exit from Fox, Andrew Bridgen's defenestration by the Tories and Diane Abbott's anti-Semitic letter to the Observer.
"If you are an employer, you call it firm management, if you are the union, you call it bullying," advised the ACAS trainer. Pretty much sums up the Dominic Raab debacle.
Whether you support Dominic Raab or not probably reflects your prior politics, but even so, there is a clear problem now that 'bullying' is defined subjectively of allegations being weaponised, says Dan Hannan.
In the latest Weekly Sceptic podcast the talking points are whether the Grammys are satanic or just naff, Kemi Badenoch's promotion and the oxymoronic new 'Department for Energy Security and Net Zero'.
Dominic Raab has said that there are no "hard, fast guarantees" that additional Covid restrictions won't be introduced before Christmas Day.
In the wake of the murder of six year-old Arthur Labinjo-Hughes, Dominic Raab and the Children's Commissioner for England have said that lockdown restrictions put vulnerable children at a greater risk of harm.
Students will have to wait until September to find out whether they need to be vaccinated against Covid to attend university lectures and to live in halls, according to Dominic Raab.
The Government believes that on the "balance of probabilities", Covid did not leak from a lab, according to Dominic Raab. The Foreign Secretary says it is more likely that the virus "jumped" from animals to humans.
