@OxfordDiplomat@johnredwood Yes Jennifer a civil servants job, and I was one once is to:
Advise
Inform
Speak truth to power
It’s not to:
Break the rules
Perform manic tricks
Right wing populists don’t like that, Trump wanted to drain the swamp and Cummings famously promised Civil Servants a ‘hard rain’
On a MS Teams call.
WOO-HOO!
They can't see much of me.
WOO-HOO!
"You're blending in the background!"
WOO-HOO!
Ah, I had the Blur background filter on.
(Pleased to meet you.)
@annkempster I concur: pubs are not for me.
Also need to rethink well intentioned gestures like buying a bottle for birthdays/celebrations; offering to buy a drink to say thanks.
@annkempster @sharonodea I agree. He’d be stupid to call a GE unless he has the all-ready-ruled-out pact with Farage. He’s gonna ride this unless there’s a vote of confidence
I just got a nice little shiver when working out whether the binary on the ribbon of the new £50 banknote meant anything.
1010111111110010110011000 is 23061912 in decimal. Alan Turing was born on the 23rd June 1912. What a nice touch.
RIP, Alan.
After my last post about hotel design I’ve ended up staying in more of them than ever.
So I’ve done a follow up. 11 more hotel design features that can get in the bin 🏨 🚮
https://t.co/atTD00Bi5l
All you firms who’ve changed your social media logos to a #Pride flag but have little to no diversity in your actual senior management teams: I see you.