Anatomy of a Scandal author Sarah Vaughan: ‘Our rule-breakers are predominantly Tories’
The drama has been adapted for Netflix by David E Kelley, who brought us Big Little Lies and The Undoing, and given a glossy upgrade. In the…
£60,000 not enough for job at Treasury’s new northern outpost
A £60,000 salary is not enough to attract good candidates to the Treasury’s Darlington outpost, according to a former government adviser. Ben Ramanauskas, a former adviser to…
Up to 40,000 civil service jobs face the axe
He also signalled that ministers eventually want to go further, slashing the headcount back to 2015/16 levels, which would be a reduction of as many as 70,000…
Rotter or rapist? Anatomy of a Scandal’s moral dilemma treads murky waters
The crux of Anatomy of a Scandal, however, is not over whether Whitehouse is a rotter, but if he is a rapist. The junior researcher (Naomi Scott)…
Sir Lindsay Hoyle: ‘The shock of my daughter’s death made me diabetic’
Hoyle grew up in politics. His father, the Lord Hoyle, was a Labour MP in Lancashire from the Seventies through to the Nineties. Sir Lindsay worked as…
Meet Ben Houchen, the Tory mayor who’d have Mrs Thatcher spluttering into her tea
‘What we’re trying to say to young people is: “Look, if you want to fight climate change, if you want to give back to the world, you…