Commenting on reports that the era of sofa government is at an end, flummery is back, as signified in part by the end of dress down Fridays for senior civil servants & the return to the ‘traditional civil service suit & tie’, Robert Crampton predicted in the Times that in another few years it will be all bowler hats & brollies.
So back to an all male political & administrative hierarchy then, when all will once again be well with the world, as it should be.
