Staff Networks, Civil Service, and the Quiet Global Coup of the Coffee-Room Cartel By Our Man in the Bureaucratic Trenches, somewhere over the Atlantic They used to say the sun never set on the British Empire; now it merely lingers on the laminated floor of the Department for International Trade canteen, where the LGBTQ+ staff…
The Curious Case of Mohammed Alakel: A Portrait in Global Inconvenience By Our Correspondent in Somewhere-With-Wi-Fi Let us begin with the obvious: Mohammed Alakel is not, strictly speaking, famous. His name does not trend on the same algorithmic hamster wheel that recently elevated a raccoon eating cotton candy in a Tokyo subway to the rank…
Yvette Cooper and the Empire of Small-Print Doom By our Special Correspondent in Existential Limbo LONDON, Tuesday – Somewhere between the soggy Pret sandwich and the next Brexit anniversary, Yvette Cooper has quietly become the West’s most efficient exporter of bureaucratic dread. While other politicians chase headlines the way toddlers chase soap bubbles, the Chair…
