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They said it first:

The relentless growth in size and functions of the Department of State and the relatively high level in calibre of those who staff them, coupled with the steady decline in importance of and function of MPs, has led to a gradual transfer of power and influence from the floor of the House of Commons to the private rooms of permanent civil servants.
GW Keeton, 1952, The Passing of Parliament
Hat tip: SDG

I breakfasted at Mr. Falconer's well, and much pleased with my inquiries. Thence to the dock, where we walked in Mr. Shelden's garden, eating more fruit, and drinking, and eating figs, which were very good, and talking while the Royal James was bringing towards the dock, and then we went out and saw the manner and trouble of docking such a ship, which yet they could not do, but only brought her head into the Dock, and so shored her up till next tide. But, good God! what a deal of company was there from both yards to help to do it, when half the company would have done it as well. But I see it is impossible for the King to have things done as cheap as other men.
Samuel Pepys, 21 July 1662
Hat tip: Lewis Page, ElReg

Housewives as a whole cannot be trusted to buy all the right things, where nutrition and health are concerned. This is really no more than an extension of the principle according to which the housewife herself would not trust a child of four to select the week’s purchases. For in the case of nutrition and health, just as in the case of education, the gentleman in Whitehall really does know better what is good for people than the people know themselves.
Douglas Jay, 1937, The Socialist Case
Hat tip: GW Keeton

... civil servants have years of experience, jobs for life, and a budget of hundreds of billions of pounds, while ministers have, usually, little or no experience of the job and could be kicked out tomorrow. After researching and writing 44 episodes and a play, I find government much easier to understand by looking at ministers as public relations consultants to the real government – which is, of course, the Civil Service.
Antony Jay, 2 January 2013

His [Steve Hilton's] hour-long class on “How to make change happen in government” offers a startling insight into the frustration of Cameron’s inner circle at its own impotence in the face of the formidable Whitehall machine.
Steve Hilton, 13 January 2013

Those who optimistically believe they are breaking new ground by improving the online experience are often merely tracing footprints on a path already much trodden, reinventing and rediscovering anew the same things – from a common website to cross-government platforms. The result has been several generations of faster horses.
Jerry Fishenden, 14 March 2016

Soap opera

  • As time goes by
  • Pick 'n' mix
  • The adventures of Marsham Towers
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  • The wisdom of civil servants
  • Whitehall in control

Whitehall

  • A risk assessment for prospective suppliers to the UK NIS
  • A short history of government digital strategies
  • Fit for purpose? Or bordering on the ridiculous?
  • Freedom of information
  • Government deficit and debt under the Maastricht Treaty - Calendar Year 2011
  • How much of the EU's data will the UK lose?
  • Identity card technologies: scientific advice, risk and evidence
  • Identity Documents Bill
  • In a fantasy league of their own
  • Institute for Government
  • OBR – March 2014
  • Project STORK
  • Propiska
  • Public Spending Statistics July 2012
  • PublicService.co.uk
  • Red Book 2011-12
  • Red Book 2012-13
  • Red Book 2013-14
  • Red Book 2014-15
  • Red Book 2015-16
  • Red Book 2016-17
  • Red Book 2018
  • Red Book 2019 (Spending Round)
  • Red Book 2020
  • Red Book 2021
  • Red Book 2022 (Autumn Statement)
  • Red Book 2023
  • Securing the UK border
  • Shut half of Whitehall and save billions, says Dominic Raab
  • Sir Jeremy Heywood is the man who really runs the country
  • Sue Cameron
  • Teflon civil servants who never feel the heat
  • The many are losing the unequal struggle
  • The most potent, permanent and elusive figure in British politics
  • The natural price of a ten-year adult passport in the UK is £23. It actually costs £77.50. Why?
  • The Register® (public sector)
  • Transformational Government -- Enabled by Technology
  • Tulipmania and the Home Office
  • Whitehall -- red light district (Ev w7)
  • Who's who
  • With their head in the clouds
  • Worst civil servants to be sacked

Misfeasance in public office

  • Elements of misfeasance in public office
  • Misfeasance in Public Office (Dover District Council)
  • Misfeasance in public office (Wikipedia)
  • The 300-year-old beginnings of Byers' day in court

Westminster

  • Erskine May
  • Her Majesty's government
  • List of MPs

Biometrics

  • Biometrics -- IPS, the Flat Earth Society and transformational cosmology
  • Biometrics: guilty until proven innocent
  • Entitlement cards and identity fraud
  • Facing a biometric future
  • Feasibility study on the use of biometrics in an entitlement scheme
  • FRVT2006
  • Fundamental issues in biometric performance testing: A modern statistical and philosophical framework for uncertainty assessment
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  • The Gallic sense of humour
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  • So what's new?
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  • The digital Frankenstein

Mobile phones

  • Industrial espionage -- mobile phones
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