Whitehall

Dr Whitehall

Or: how I learned to stop worrying and love the Blob

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Whitehall in the thick of it

The Civil Service’s utter determination not to do anything ministers ask of it makes the Government’s work tricky

Features
The failures of Boris

The Prime Minister is responsible for most of the things that have gone wrong

Editorial
Fifty shades of muck

The lost art of governing your tongue

Sketch
Whitehall’s whispering mandarin

A tribute to Sir Roy Stone, whose secretive role at the heart of Westminster made government possible

Features
The court of King Boris

Our everyday politics are court politics and Boris Johnson is king in all but name

Columns
Putting a price on scholarship

Charles Saumarez Smith on the battle to safeguard the future of some of Britain’s oldest and best-known learned societies

Features
Whitehall takes the knee

When the MoD’s top man signs off with a BLM hashtag it’s a brave official who doesn’t get the message

Editorial
More freedom, less information

The Freedom of Information Act was supposed to guarantee honesty and transparency in government, but has ensured that controversial decisions will be forever shrouded in secrecy

Features
The simplest thing is difficult

Does Dominic Cummings know what he doesn’t know about Defence policy?

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