A senior civil servant told the inquiry last week that Downing Street had a "macho" culture during the pandemic and that decision-making was affected by the toxic environment.

Source: https://www.newser.com/story/342429/aide-boris-johnson-suggested-covid-injection-to-prove-a-point.html

“A text from Simon Case, then a senior civil servant yet to become cabinet secretary to (former health secretary) Matt Hancock on the 29th of April reads: ‘The Cabinet Office is a totally dysfunctional mess at present, so not a great place to be’.”

Source: https://www.alloaadvertiser.com/news/national/23830911.sunak-says-expansively-helping-covid-19-inquiry-whatsapp-claims/?ref=rss

"Businesses simply not knowing what regulations will apply at the end of this year, and what they will have to comply with, it is completely crazy," said the former chief civil servant.

Source: https://www.politicshome.com/news/article/rishi-sunak-urged-by-cbi-to-ditch-bogus-post-brexit-eu-law-sunset-clause

But various witnesses have expressed concern about his approach, with the inquiry hearing that the country’s most senior civil servant at the time, Lord Sedwill, wanted Mr Hancock sacked.

Source: https://www.expressandstar.com/news/uk-news/2023/11/29/under-fire-matt-hancock-to-give-evidence-before-covid-inquiry/

Erdogan has never faced a more energised or united opposition than the one led by retired civil servant Kemal Kilicdaroglu and his disparate alliance of six parties.

Source: https://guardian.ng/news/world/erdogan-leads-prayers-on-eve-of-fight-for-political-life/

Erdogan's rival is a soft-mannered former civil servant who has led the pro-secular Republican People’s Party, or CHP, since 2010.

Source: https://www.kelownadailycourier.ca/business_news/national_business/article_5cec0965-a9d0-5368-b1fa-b3e366b70315.html

Frank says he is a humble civil servant trying to get a long with everyone.

Source: https://www.celebdirtylaundry.com/2023/blue-bloods-finale-recap-05-19-23-season-13-episode-21-forgive-us-our-trespasses/

He committed the offence while working as a state civil servant and a supervisory councillor with Ughelli South Local Government Area simultaneously, Mrs. Azuka Ogugua, spokesperson, ICPC said in a statement.

Source: https://pmnewsnigeria.com/2023/08/05/delta-assembly-staff-bags-2-years-in-jail-over-salary-fraud/

His rival was a soft-mannered former civil servant who has led the pro-secular Republican People’s Party (CHP), since 2010.

Source: https://jerseyeveningpost.com/morenews/worldnews/2023/05/29/triumphant-erdogan-faces-challenges-over-economy-and-earthquake-recovery/

However, he can immediately appoint a senior civil servant for the transfer if, in the opinion of the Minister, there is a mistrust.

Source: https://www.baltimoregaylife.com/soon-the-d66-ministers-will-be-gone-but-the-d66-officials-are-still-there-what-then/

In the book we meet a “big-bellied officer” in the directorate of nationality and passports who was no longer a mundane civil servant.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/mar/19/a-stranger-in-your-own-city-travels-in-middle-east-long-war-by-ghaith-abdul-ahad-review-charting-20-years-of-frustration-and-fury-in-iraq

It is not surprising that a briefing document presented to Northern Ireland’s new health minister in January 2020 contained only two paragraphs about emergency planning for a pandemic, a senior Stormont civil servant has said.

Source: https://www.expressandstar.com/news/uk-news/2023/07/11/no-surprise-briefing-for-minister-sparse-on-pandemic-plan-detail-probe-told/

It says that a senior civil servant was satisfied that the sites in Bexhill, Wethersfield and Scapmton were value for money and that Bexhill could potentially be “used for longer”.

Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/migrant-crisis-years-government-memo-b2392560.html

Mr Tanimu Musa, a civil servant told NAN that the strike was counterproductive.

Source: https://247ureports.com/2023/11/taraba-workers-shun-nlc-tuc-strike/

Negotiations on a new treaty are in their final stages, the Home Office's top civil servant said on Wednesday.

Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12808827/rwanda-channel-migrant-scheme-fears-out.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490

Now in a letter sent this week, the SNP leader has confirmed that while a special advisor was with her, no civil servant was present and that officials were 'unable to locate a note of this meeting'.

Source: https://www.greenocktelegraph.co.uk/news/23239725.nicola-sturgeon-pressure-ferguson-ferries-meeting/?ref=rss

She said she updated Twitter “24/7 regardless of civil servant hours, although there is no overtime or compensation.

Source: https://cyprus-mail.com/2023/03/14/irate-seismologist-lambasts-civil-service/

Sommer loves being a civil servant, he said, and working for the people of Brooklyn and New York City.

Source: https://www.brooklynpaper.com/in-the-zone-bk-new-city-planning-director-plans/

Speaking in that regard, a civil servant, Mr. Jonah Bulus, whose office is located on Lagos Island, said: “Spending about N35, 000 to fuel your car weekly is not sustainable.

Source: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2023/07/n617-petrol-crazy-survival-strategies-as-hard-times-bite-harder/

Speaking to the AAN, Omar Mansur, 32, a Taliban Commander now civil servant, said: “We had a great degree of freedom about where to go, where to stay, and whether to participate in the war.

Source: https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1731078/taliban-fighters-rent-traffic-difficult-kabul-city-life