In a thinly veiled attack on former cabinet secretary Gus O'Donnell, who has urged a change in the law to protect the secrecy of cabinet meetings, Graham said the arguments of many critics were "nonsense". He also warned that scaremongering about the pow

A controversial deal that allowed the chief executive of the Student Loans Company (SLC) to be paid without tax being deducted at source was approved by Britain's most senior civil servant, according to emails released under the Freedom of Information Ac

Last October, Sir Peter was accused of abandoning the traditional role of civil service impartiality and of "going native" by backing the Scottish Government's policy for independence. The row erupted in the House of Lords with at least one peer calling

She intended to damage his reputation, and possibly to put the brakes on his political career. She may have anticipated there would be some personal cost to herself, but she cannot, surely, have foreseen that she would find herself in court with her ex,

Britain's most senior civil servant personally signed off on a deal that allowed the head of the Student Loans Company to avoid paying thousands of pounds in tax and national insurance. Gus O'Donnell, then the Cabinet Secretary, agreed that Ed Lester cou

"There's a new mood in Parliament", writes Raedwald , who is commenting on a piece in the Failygraph on civil service powers and responsibilities. "Reform is on the wind. MPs are feeling their breeches for the first time in many years. The mandarinate ma