“Unprecedented in modern British history and outside all normal civil s...” — Dominic Cummings Quote

“Unprecedented in modern British history and outside all normal civil service rules, a bunch of MPs, some of them working with foreign governments, wrote primary legislation - 'the Surrender Act' also known as the Benn Act - without any of the scrutiny of who influenced and who funded it that is normal for legislation.”

“Discussion of politics and government almost totally ignores the concept of training people to update their opinions in response to new evidence - i.e adapt to feedback.”

“Speed and adaptability are crucial to success in conflict and can be helped by new technologies.”

“The fundamental problem the Conservative Party has had since 1997 at least is that it is seen as 'the party of the rich, they don't care about public services.' This is supported by all serious market research. Another problem that all parties have is that their promises are not believed.”

“It is very very hard for humans to lift our eyes from today and to go out into the future and think about what could be done to bring the future back to the present. Like ants crawling around on the leaf, we political people only know our leaf.”

“I don't like the royal family, I don't like the establishment, I don't like the civil service.”

“During Manmohan Singh's formative years, it was a matter of great pride to be called to the Indian Civil Service for serving the Empire.”