Stop passing the buck

Bob Neill takes inspiration from Dickens to describe the blight of timid managerialism afflicting the public sector today.

By Bob Neill | 12 December 2013

 

I thought that I would start a pre-Christmas article with a quote from Charles Dickens – not A Christmas Carol, but Little Dorrit: ‘The Circumlocution Office was (as everybody knows without being told) the most important department under Government.

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