Tag: Bureaucracy
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Pope on a Rope
I find the whole papal election gig fascinating and weird in equal measure. It’s a ritual punctuated by traditional habits, but nun are worth mentioning. Apart from perhaps the hysteria that follows the appearance of white smoke. It’s not as if the world stops spinning on its axis during the interregnum. At some stage, a…
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Out of Sleight
Hold my beer – Lord Frost has been elevated to the Cabinet to be the new minister for the EU, and it is not immediately clear whether this is a move for political continuity with our continental chums or a burst of peak trolling. He clearly knows the brief after leading negotiations, but it oozes…
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