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Sir Humphrey moments: a brief history of bust-ups between ministers and mandarins

Olly Robbins gave MPs a classic civil servant’s performance – and there are lessons from the past about how ministers should respond

The Guardian - UK

Bored of Peace? Half of Donald Trump's Board of Peace is at war

Donald Trump’s grandly titled Board of Peace was supposed to be a Trumpian alternative to the United Nations, promising order, stability, and the end of endless wars. Instead, it resembles a Yes Minister casting call where the least qualified are handed the grandest titles. Nearly half its members are now…

The Times of India

I'm Sorry Prime Minister review: Amuses despite the misplaced star casting

3/5 The much-loved TV classic is given a stage sequel by original co-writer Jonathan Lynn, which has fine moments but suffers from a miscasting

Evening Standard

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Four decades after we wrote Yes Minister, politics is still reduced to the pleasure of power

Our sitcom character Jim Hacker continues to cling on – as he takes to the West End stage, nothing has really changed

The Guardian - UK

Random Musing: Nixon wanted China to fight India-Pakistan War – and other new worms from Watergate

When Bernard asks why, Sir Humphrey explains: “Because once the Prime Minister knows, there will have to be an enquiry, like Watergate. The investigation of a trivial break-in led to one ghastly revelation after another and finally the downfall of a president. The golden rule is don’t lift lids off…

The Times of India

Random Musing: A brief history of the Church of England (as it gets its first woman Archbishop of Canterbury)

It begins, inevitably, with Henry VIII, who married Catherine but couldn’t produce a male heir. The Pope refused to annul the marriage because Catherine was the aunt of Charles V, the Holy Roman Emperor whose armies effectively controlled Rome — a man at whose snook the Pope could ill afford…

The Times of India

Griff Rhys Jones returns to stage in I'm Sorry, Prime Minister

Jones is taking on the part made famous by Paul Eddington and tells us: "Politics ought to be the art of the possible but it seems to be about is the art of the impossible.”

Evening Standard

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Restoring faith in flawed decision-making process

Quality of external investigations into local government scrutinised.

Newcastle Herald

I’m Sorry, Prime Minister, I Can’t Quite Remember: Hacker and Sir Humphrey’s last hurrah

Jonathan Lynn’s new play finds the political double act in their 80s, in a suitable final chapter to a magnificent comic project

The Guardian - UK

John Nettleton obituary

Actor who appeared as the cold, calculating cabinet secretary Sir Arnold Robinson in the TV satire Yes Minister

The Guardian - UK

Succession withdrawal? Here are the shows to help scratch that itch

With many of us mourning the Roy clan, a bounty of alternatives exists to help provide the backstabbing and ladder-climbing we so miss

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