In this era of capitulation, the log-rollers are rampant | Simon Jenkins

The higher civil service, once the government's purring Rolls-Royce, has been taken for a joy-ride by the great professions

What is the difference between an Athens bus driver and the chairman of the British Medical Association? The answer is not much. Just now they are both threatening to do unpleasant things to other people in defence of their wallets. They do not put it that way, of course, but we can call a spade a spade. No one is so determinedly employed as when seeking to make money.

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