whose going to tell Hon Hearmeyerand cabinet their preference for expensive heavenly minded solutions( the helicopters) is of limited earthly use in improving the real life dilemmas facing people on the fire forest issues on the ground.
A comforting thought from Sir Humphrey
When Antony Jay first had the idea of showing off what really happens up top, I wrote to him and said. " You realize that this exposure will make it even harder for us to do our job! While it's awfully fun serious to come home to see this on the TV, the fact is , that he will watch it too and can be expected to make our jobs much harder. The rest of this note is fiction but in his long letter back to me, the wonderful Antony did address the dilemmas of telling the truth in that context. His letter is better than any award or recognition I could have received for quietly doing my public service job for over 3 decades. "I mean Hacker will be alerted that he is really dumb and doesn't really know what he is doing. Far better perhaps to have him think he is God, without him realizing that he is not? KCMG GCMG and all that !! Hacker is always at his worst when he learns/sees the next step out of kindergarten. Even after tutoring him many times in baby steps, it ...
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