Hilariously different response to posting this on the other place

Obviously we all want Civil Servants to be creative and hard working. But this kind of language isn't what anyone wants to hear from their new boss. Indeed was prob only said so it could be leaked, which will further deflate morale.

It also specifically calls for this as part of its definition of well designed places.

So true. My two grandfathers didn't seem to be at wild parties. One was in a unit ordered to occupy Trieste as fast as possible before the Yugoslavs. The other, in 12 Group at the time, took part in a march past and heard a speech from an Air Vice Marshal (photo below)

Only unusual because it was in a press conference

Twas ever thus

Great start to today's Blain's Morning Porridge on the media warnings of the imminent strike of bond vigilantes.

The finest traditions of old England on display. An industrial scandal causing deaths, which people use to get so drunk they themselves die. And in the end the factory owners are let off.