Whitehall

You can’t blame the pro-EU irritant for making British politics undignified

A weak and indecisive prime minister delegated too much to Whitehall

A slimmer government is not a fringe libertarian concern but a national priority

Officials have little incentive to deliver

DOGE isn’t just about cancelling civil servants’ away days

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

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

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

The lost art of governing your tongue

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