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Culturally, the Home Office thought it was a cut above most other government departments, it had some bright people in it. What was striking when I got to the Foreign Office was that the quantum mass of really bright people was higher than in the Home Office. And also, they’re a different breed in this respect, is that they’re much more political with a small ‘p’ because when members of the diplomatic service are abroad, they are representing the government of the day publicly, in a way that no home civil service official does. How do you explain bad news to your child? A psychotherapist reveals his 5 tips for helping them understand (and what to NEVER say) I don’t know whether junior ministers of mine complained of that, but what I tried to do was to involve them in the team. Key to that was having a Monday lunchtime meeting where they came and also the special advisers and the people from the party and from Number 10. We sat round the table, went through the business for the week, and also I used to talk to them. I mean sometimes they were a bit… it was horses for courses, and one or two you had to be careful about, because they would rather be getting your job and I used to say to them ‘calm down!’ You’d find that they were few and far between, particularly by the time I was at the Foreign Office, but even at the Home Office [it was OK]. Taylor Swift's 1989 (Taylor's Version) surpasses Midnights to become top-selling studio album of 2023JS: At one level the rhythm of the departments was very similar, in terms of what the private office [is] there for, the decision making machine for ministers, and in both departments there was a degree of what I call secretary-of-state-worship. So everything was focused on the secretary of state. BBC defends 'racist' Little Britain sketch where David Walliams says Asian character 'smells of soy sauce': Corporation claims scene is intended to 'expose and ridicule outdated prejudices that still exist in parts of UK society'

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Let it not, however, be inferred that taxation cannot be pushed too far : it is, as the Oriental proverb says, the last straw that overloads the camel ; a small addition, if ill-timed, may overturn the whole. [The Scots Magazine, April 1799] Also in 2000, Straw turned down an asylum request from a man fleeing Saddam Hussein's regime, stating "we have faith in the integrity of the Iraqi judicial process and that you should have no concerns if you haven't done anything wrong." [26] Will the REAL Slim Shady please stand up: Watch rapper Aitch transform into Eminem for Maya Jama's Halloween bash Here I am, in my full kit, with my late mother Joan, then aged 86, outside the Royal Courts of Justice in 2007, on the day I was sworn in as Lord Chancellor.

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