19 h. ago Blind date: ‘She called me a dork, which is what every man dreams of’

Kat, 30, who works in the music industry, meets Matt, 30, a civil servantWhat were you hoping for? Great food, a fun story and hopefully someone to explore London with. Continue reading...

Politics

2 d. ago Historic victory for women... and common sense: Judges rule that women are defined by biological sex

Women's rights groups and MPs celebrated the 'victory for common sense' and called on the Government to ensure that activist managers and civil servants abided by the ruling.

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3 d. ago UK officials label trade documents ‘secret’ to shield from US eyes amid Trump tariff war

Exclusive: civil servants beef up security rules for sensitive negotiating papers over fears posed by hostile US trade policyUK officials are tightening security when handling sensitive trade documents to prevent them from falling into US hands amid Donald Trump’s tariff war, the Guardian can reveal.In an indication of the strains on the “special relationship”, British civil servants have changed document-handling guidance, adding higher classifications to some trade negotiation documents in order to better shield them from American eyes, sources told the Guardian. Continue reading...

Politics

5 d. ago Union officials ‘hopeful’ of Scunthorpe steel materials delivery within 48 hours

British Steel staff and civil servants are expected to spend Monday trying to prevent the permanent shutdown of Britain’s last steel-making plant.

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6 d. ago British Steel staff and civil servants race to keep Scunthorpe blast furnaces on

Officials from the Department for Business and Trade are already on site in Scunthorpe after the Government took over the running of British Steel.

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8 d. ago Civil servants at Department for Environment blew more than £700,000 of taxpayers' cash on business and premium economy flights last year

Figures obtained by the Daily Mail reveal that Defra spent £721,189.25 on plush aircraft seats for civil servants in the financial year from 2023 to 2024.

Economics

9 d. ago Cabinet Office to cut a third of jobs as Labour seeks to shrink Civil Service

Around 1,200 people will lose their jobs under plans announced to civil servants today, with another 900 being transferred to other departments

Society

1 week ago Home Office memo reveals Johnson and Sunak may have to give evidence at Manston migrant centre inquiry

Former prime ministers, home secretaries and senior civil servants listed as potential witnesses to inquiry into chaos at Manston migrant processing centre in autumn 2022

Politics

2 w. ago Minister plans to curb ‘away days’ for civil servants and branded merchandise

Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster Pat McFadden said he wants to cut costs.

Politics

2 w. ago Fears of local government financial collapse ‘pessimistic’, says top civil servant

The Local Government Association said councils in England were facing a funding gap of more than £8 billion by 2028/29.

Politics

2 w. ago Musk’s Doge to fire all local workers and US diplomats from USAID, sources say

Unofficial Trump adviser’s cost-cutting team to finalize shuttering the foreign aid agency on which millions dependUS politics live – latest updatesElon Musk’s cost-cutting team is finalizing the dismantlement of the US Agency for International Development, ordering the firings of thousands of local workers and US diplomats and civil servants assigned to the agency overseas, two former top USAID officials and a source with knowledge of the situation said on Tuesday.On Friday, Congress was notified that almost all of USAID’s own employees were being fired by September, all of its overseas offices shut, and some functions absorbed into the state department. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago ‘They don’t want them to know anything’: Gaza civilians held in Israel not told families had been killed

A nurse, a civil servant and a teacher, among thousands of Palestinians detained without charges, were not informed their relatives had died in Israeli attacks• ‘He insisted we take him to the graves’: the Palestinian hostages coming home to catastropheFor six months after it became impossible, Ahmed Wael Dababish still dreamed of a simple reunion: the day he could once again hug his wife, Asma, his two daughters and his young son.A nurse from Gaza, Dababish last saw his family in the early hours of one night in December 2023, when Israeli troops attacked a school where they had sought shelter. Continue reading...

Events

3 w. ago McCloud judgement creates a tricky pension dilemma for civil servants

Like thousands of other civil servants, retired and employed, I have received an offer from the Civil Service Pension Scheme - and my decision is permanent.

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