6-year-old is going through his 'Ezra' phrase so I've been forced to mull these lyrics. To throw a party on the *DAY* she dies would seem more like a celebration of her death, rather than of her life. (Which one would expect from a more traditional wake, held a few weeks later)

He also talked about his young daughter, who thinks his job is to press the buttons on the wind turbines each morning, which is very sweet

And also the concerns over the Crown Estate's lack of accountability

I asked him about the windfall Charles is going to get from offshore wind contracts...

With the GB Energy announcement, there's a lot of chat about the Crown Estate today. But what is this organisation that owns swathes of our country & the entire seabed around England, Wales & NI? And who is the Aussie running it? I met him a few months ago

Proper headline

Lot of 'thick person's idea of a smart person' here. He means melanin not melatonin men have X chromosones too, and a pyyrhic victory is not ever something you aim for, it's an unintended effect. Like pivoting from sex pest to political guru, perhaps.

🚨Calling all UK broadcasters calling her KOMala Harris🚨Yes, we know she told everyone her name is pronounced “comma-la”, but in a US accent that sounds like camma-la so maybe just say it the way Americans say it? In a plummy UK accent, comma-la sounds ridic. Please & thank you

As a colleague just said on our Slack channel (which IS still working)... Merry Glitchmas

Civil servants have been experiencing something rather novel in recent days: declarations of support and respect from their new ministers (can you imagine!). Read our round-up of what incoming secretaries of state have been saying to their officials here:

Civil servants! What have you heard from your new ministers? I'd love to hear about memos, missives, rallying cries... Drop me a message here or at beckie.smith@civilserviceworld.com

Times are never to dark for a good pun, as tonight’s News Agents proves: Sopel to IDS: Tories are facing Armageddon… IDS: Well, you may say that but Armageddon on with it

Treasury officials are NOT INDEPENDENT (they work for the government of the day and used assumptions set out by Conservative special advisers)

But her emails!

This is a ‘deep dive’ piece I wrote about civil service wokery and all the noise around it. It was published during Liz Truss’s days (minutes?) in Number 10 but it is no less relevant today

Just look at all these perm secs in one place! And that’s just the icing on the cake agenda-wise for Public Technology Live. It’s a one-day conference organised by @CSWnews’ sister title @PublicTech and you’ve still got a week to register! More info here: https://t.co/fjMOmsYpJU

Seen a lot of deeply unserious takes about civil service wokery this week. By Esther McVey's admission, a review of time spent on EDI found there are “somewhere like the equivalent of 400 full-time employees” in the civil service. That's less than 0.1% of civil service jobs.

We're going to hear a lot in the coming weeks about how civil servants are thwarting the Rwanda policy. The @FDA_union judicial review is about a conflict between the civil service code & legislation. Ministers could have addressed this in the Rwanda bill but didn't.

Important - and heartbreaking - thread from our amazing deputy editor Beckie ⬇️