Yes Minister: the four stages of government ineptitude

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13/03/2020

A little something to lighten the mood. UK readers will know Yes Minister, a 1980s TV satire on the civil service, which has been eerily prescient about all manner of things in the past few years. Here, two senior civil servants discuss the ‘usual’ responses ...

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Pichuiyer Balasubramanian
March 13, 2020 at 1:03 pm
Spot on Alex !

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