Sometimes it can take years for civil servants to get what they want. But with their index-linked trillion-pound pension promises, they can afford to wait. Civil servants may come and civil servants may go. But the civil service lives for ever. And it has all the time in the world. It knows it will win eventually. That slowly-slowly approach to Government means that nothing is ever rejected once a...

Whitehall mandarins have made a last-ditch effort to halt the publication of the details of spending by civil servants on taxpayer-funded credit cards.

Ministers should be given the power to appoint the most senior civil servants as part of a radical reform of Whitehall, according to David Blunkett, the former home secretary. In an article for Political Quarterly, Blunkett is highly critical of the Labour party's record in failing to tackle the civil service since it has been in power and warns that ministers are suffering from "rubber lever...

Whitehall's "jobs for life" culture must end and underperforming civil servants should face the sack a major independent study says today.

The government faces a legal challenge over the civil service redundancy scheme after proposed changes were rejected by members of the main Whitehall union.

Appointing a mandarin to break up Britain makes a mockery of civil servants' supposed neutrality, writes Alan Cochrane.

CIVIL servants in Scotland have been largely protected from the effects of job cuts compared with their counterparts in Whitehall.

I'm not sure that Civil Servants should line up en masse at their Departments' doors to applaud new Secretaries of State when they arrive for the first time. None the less, Treasury civil servants did so to greet Gordon Brown...

Whitehall civil servants who tried to keep details of their salaries secret will be made to reveal how much they earn, the Information Commissioner ruled today.

Whitehall should break with 150 years of tradition and allow UK ministers to appoint senior civil servants, says a leading think-tank