Boris Johnson’s fiancée Carrie Symonds tried to damage the careers of top women civil servants

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

Boris Johnson’s fiancée Carrie Symonds tried to damage the careers of top women civil servants

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

How can I find out if my civil service pension is invested ethically?

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

Game Of Thrones prequel series House Of The Dragon about Targaryen civil war casts four more names

Game Of Thrones prequel series House Of The Dragon about Targaryen civil war casts Steve Toussaint, Sonoya Minuzo, Eve Best and Rhys Ifans By Sameer Suri For Dailymail.com Published: 00:11 GMT, 12 February 2021 | Updated: 00:11 GMT, 12 February 2021 Steve Toussaint, Sonoya Minuzo, Eve Best and Rhys Ifans have been cast in a … Read more

Remarkable unseen pictures shed light on courage of black Civil War soldiers

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

Support for Scottish independence dives four points amid SNP civil war

Is the Sturgeon surge over? Support for Scottish independence dives four points and Boris Johnson’s ratings creep up amid bitter SNP infighting and slow vaccine rollout Support for independence fell sharply in new poll although it is still in the lead Drop came as Nicola Sturgeon struggled with vaccine drive and SNP civil war Boris … Read more

Matt Hancock’s obsession with Contagion ‘helped him inspire civil servants to create jabs rollout’

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

Dutch mayor warns the country is heading for ‘civil war’ after riots

Europe’s battle against coronavirus entered a dangerous new phase this week as politicians pushed to tighten lockdown measures across the continent even after a weekend of rioting brought scenes of chaos to the Netherlands and Denmark amid warnings of ‘civil war’.  France is due to decide whether to bring in a third national lockdown this … Read more

Scottish government spent £55,000 ‘preparing’ civil servants for Alex Salmond inquiry hearings 

The Scottish government spent more than £50,000 on preparing civil servants to give evidence about the investigation into former First Minister Alex Salmond, it has emerged. Top officials are reported to have spent hours preparing for the sessions, where they then suffered a ‘collective memory loss’ on key details. This has led to accusations of ‘coaching’ … Read more

97% civil servants want to continue working from home after lockdown

Almost ALL civil servants want to be allowed to continue working from home after the lockdown ends with seven in 10 saying they are doing LONGER hours by not coming in to the office 97% of those polled by FDA union wanted to do their job from home sometimes Almost a third said they wanted … Read more