Post #2646287
2026-05-14 07:52 UTC
@alex_p_roe@mastodon.world
@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us
If you read Rory Stewart's book, it gives the strong impression that the civil service is also a sclerotic impediment to progress and that between the executive and the civil service, everything is fighting against
* risk avoiding viscosity,
* job preservation,
* primacy of advancement over experience (length of job list vs time in post),
* expertise phobia & elevation of ignorance,
* patronage, corruption & revolving doors
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@samueljohnson@mstdn.social 2026-05-14 08:48
@gregalotl@c.im @alex_p_roe@mastodon.world @ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us All accurate and yet he ignored the elephant in the room: the fundamentally undemocratic nature of the UK's electoral system and constitution. Hardly surprising from an Eton-educated son of a former colonial administrator and senior member of British intelligence services who "accidentally" (entirely by chance!) became governor of a province in Iraq. His diagnosis of the UK's lack of seriousness: 🎯.