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 into the public consciousness....

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 suspected at the time but were far...

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 health apps as one of the two...

Peter McDonald explores the opportunities and challenges of a smaller government Standing on an exposed common in rural Carmarthenshire, deep in blanket bog, debating with local farmers and agricultural specialists in the driving rain, was the moment I realised the true scale of my journey away...

Tamara Finkelstein, Head of the Government Policy Profession, asks whether it’s time for Civil Service generalists to become part of a profession Is it time to consider the end of the Civil Service generalist? My own career experience and leadership of the Policy Profession has prompted me to ask...