When one joins the Civil Service, one enters the membership of a club.
A club with traditions, good and bad, going back centuries.
Its past members include Sir Geoffrey Chaucer, Sir Thomas More, Thomas Cromwell and Samuel Pepys.
Truly one stands on the shoulders of giants.
A club with traditions, good and bad, going back centuries.
Its past members include Sir Geoffrey Chaucer, Sir Thomas More, Thomas Cromwell and Samuel Pepys.
Truly one stands on the shoulders of giants.
And it is a club one never leaves, even on exiting the employment of the Civil Service.
The code of omerta still very much applies, even in retirement.
GOD these days, in that other place, those Elysian Fields, sets us a good example.
The code of omerta still very much applies, even in retirement.
GOD these days, in that other place, those Elysian Fields, sets us a good example.
Hodges, when you smear one of us, you insult all of us.
We are not journalists we are a family.
We are not journalists we are a family.
We have our differences, our feuds, some lost in the mists of time, because we possess what columnists do not, an institutional memory.
When the world crashed down around the ears of Government in 1914 and 1939, our forebears did their bit and more.
When the world crashed down around the ears of Government in 1914 and 1939, our forebears did their bit and more.
This Tory Government wants to return the Civil Service to the unreformed days of the early 19th Century wherein Ministers might appoint friends, family and acquaintances not to the role of Special Advisers, but to jobs on the Civil Service payroll.
Conservative and Liberal Governments during the reign of Queen Victoria put an end to that scandal and corruption.
All hail Northcote-Trevelyan.
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All hail Northcote-Trevelyan.
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No, the Civil Service is not perfect, ask any current or former civil servant, off the record, and they will confirm that.
What institution is beyond criticism or evolutionary reform, except, in their own opinion, the hacks of the Fourth Estate?
As I say, we are a family.
Some of our past forebears came up with Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty wherein is set out the principle of collective defence.
Some of our past forebears came up with Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty wherein is set out the principle of collective defence.
Or, as Sir Humphrey would, I am sure, put it, "Unus pro omnibus, omnes pro uno."
Bring it on, Hodges!
Bring it on, Hodges!
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