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Making a Difference to Country and Community
Simon Case, Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Civil Service, on what it means to serve I am sure the idea of service, and what it means to serve, resonates with many of my colleagues in the Civil Service. I can think of two instances where this was recently brought...
The Ten Traits of a Great Civil Servant
Suzanne Heywood on the qualities valued by her late husband Jeremy, Cabinet Secretary from 2012 to 2018. In late August 2018, Jeremy, Jonny (our eldest son) and I drove down to Whitstable for a long weekend. It was to be our last holiday together – something we...
Changing Government One Datastream at a Time
Laura Gilbert, Director of Data Science at 10 Downing Street, reflects on her AI and data science teams’ challenges and achievements I joined the UK government in September 2020, six months into Covid. For nearly a decade, I’d been running a tech startup building...
A Day in the Life of… Britain’s Ambassador to Qatar
Neerav Patel on Gaza, Qatari weddings, and why it’s important to be able to play the role of a roadie I first worked for Jeremy Heywood when he was Permanent Secretary in Gordon Brown’s Downing Street. He created a scheme to install a small number of Fast Streamers in...