Boris Johnson’s fiancee Carrie Symonds tried to damage the careers of Britain’s top two female civil servants by manoeuvring against them and making offensive remarks. Miss Symonds urged the Prime Minister to sack a female Whitehall official who refused to sign off a large taxpayers’ bill for her refurbishment of the Downing Street flat, including … Read more
Key Boris aide Baroness Finn launches vicious attack on ‘incapable’ civil service saying it is risk-averse and obsessed with the ‘metropolitan bubble’ Baroness Finn key aide to Boris Johnson and Downing Street deputy chief of staff Said there is ‘lack of capability in the civil service to deliver successful projects’ Her comments prompted an immediate … Read more
Could you please tell me how I find out how my pension is invested. I’m in the civil service pension scheme, and I’m interested how the money is invested, that it is not invested in fossil fuel industries and that it is invested ethically. I could not find any data on this. Could you send … Read more
A new book has shed light on the experience of black Civil War soldiers, using never-before-seen photographs from the 19th century. The American Civil War, 1861-1865, was the first major conflict to be captured through the new technology of the day – photography. And now a brand new book entitled The Black Civil War Solider … Read more
How Matt Hancock’s obsession with the film Contagion – which sees disease-gripped nations battling for limited vaccine supplies – helped inspire him to prioritise Britain’s jab rollout Former DHSC adviser said Matt Hancock would ‘keep referring to end of the film’ Movie depicted vaccines being handed out using a lottery based on birth dates The … Read more
How Matt Hancock’s obsession with the film Contagion – which sees disease-gripped nations battling for limited vaccine supplies – helped inspire him to prioritise Britain’s jab rollout Former DHSC adviser said Matt Hancock would ‘keep referring to end of the film’ Movie depicted vaccines being handed out using a lottery based on birth dates The … Read more
The SNP’s civil war burst out into the open today as an MP called in police over a ‘vicious threat’ to her personal safety the day after she was sacked from a senior post. Police Scotland said officers are investigating following a report of ‘threatening communications’ being made online against Joanna Cherry. The 54-year-old, an ally of … Read more
A lawyer has claimed the FBI secretly discovered $400 million in stolen Civil War gold bars buried in a Pennsylvania forest three years ago. Harrisburg attorney William Cluck said Thursday he’d learned the name of the federal judge who ordered all records of the March 2018 excavation to be sealed. ‘I got what I wanted,’ … Read more
A lawyer has claimed the FBI secretly discovered $400 million in stolen Civil War gold bars buried in a Pennsylvania forest. Harrisburg attorney William Cluck said Thursday he’d learned the name of the federal judge who ordered all records of the March 2018 excavation to be sealed. ‘I got what I wanted,’ Cluck told PennLive … Read more
Many elderly women lost out on state pension because junior civil servants failed to manually update their individual records during past decades, it has emerged. Well over a 100 government staff are now working to assess and manually correct individual records and more are being assigned to sort out the ‘significant legacy issue’, MPs have … Read more