I'm delighted to announce I'm now Online Editor at Civil Service World (@civilserviceworld.bsky.social). I'm looking forward to shaping our online coverage for civil servants – from news, op-eds and long-read features, to our daily newsletter.
Tevye Markson
@tevyemarkson.bsky.social
Online Editor for @civilserviceworld.bsky.social. Got civil service tips, story ideas or views to share? Hit me up here or at tevye.markson@civilserviceworld.com
Now we know the Committee on Standards in Public Life will become the beefed-up Ethics and Integrity Commission, here's what CSPL chair Doug Chalmers had to say to @tevyemarkson.bsky.social recently on empathy, rapport and "zigzagging between departments": www.civilserviceworld.com/in-depth/art...
'No one department owns all the bright ideas': An interview with standards watchdog Doug Chalmers
Committee on Standards in Public Life chair speaks to CSW about empathy, rapport and why 'zigzagging between departments is a really healthy thing'
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I'm planning on continuing to talk about Thomas Partey, Arsenal and rape culture as long as it is a problem within football open.substack.com/pub/feverpit...
An Open Letter to Arsenal Football Club
Today, the news broke that Thomas Partey, an Arsenal player until the beginning of this month, is being prosecuted for five counts of rape and one count of sexual assault.
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MyCSP dispute centres on the lack of formal recognition for PCS ahead of the transfer of staff to outsourcing giant Capita www.civilserviceworld.com/professions/...
PCS announces six weeks of strikes at Civil Service Pension Scheme administrator MyCSP
Dispute centres on the lack of formal recognition for the union ahead of the transfer of staff to outsourcing giant Capita
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First-of-its-kind health partnership will employ more than 300 medical personnel from the MoD and the NHS www.civilserviceworld.com/professions/...
MoD and NHS to open joint medical centre at Catterick Garrison
Catterick Integrated Care Centre will treat military personnel and their families as well as members of the public
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In this episode CSW editor-in-chief Jess Bowie talks to Tom Brown, author of The Mind of the Minister, about the unique relationship between senior civil servants and politicians open.spotify.com/episode/3Eiw...
How do we restore trust between ministers and civil servants?
The Civil Service World Podcast · Episode
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Judges said Sheffield Campus partnership had "an incredible multi-year strategy, with societal impact beyond employability" www.civilserviceworld.com/professions/...
DWP and University of Sheffield win award for campus partnership
Judges said Sheffield Campus partnership had 'an incredible multi-year strategy, with societal impact beyond employability'
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New cross-government digital system will give the exchequer and departments a shared understanding in real time of how they are performing against their budgets and objectives www.civilserviceworld.com/professions/...
Treasury working with departments to build integrated finance system
Tech will give HMT and departments real-time shared understanding of their performance against budgets and objectives
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FoI documents reveal Scottish Government's office and home-working plans www.civilserviceworld.com/professions/...
Hybrid working: 60% in office is Scottish Government’s ‘ultimate aim’
FoI documents reveal Scottish Government's office and home-working plans
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What's with the emotional guitar music on Sky News before Keir Starmer's AI speech? Sad Monday morning vibes. Ok now we have something more upbeat...
A civil servant lying in a bath suddenly darts out and runs outside to find an apple cart and dashes it with all the apples to the ground and screams "IS THIS WHAT YOU WANTED?!!!!!". Then sighs and walks back to their bath and continues to lay in it
Having minions bring you in steak for lunch is certainly an interesting definition of being working class. And how can sandwiches not be food but be breakfast? So much to unpack...
"Tepid Bathgate" needs fixing, and quickly, says the FDA's general secretary Dave Penman www.civilserviceworld.com/professions/...
Civil servants are hungry for reform, but Starmer's 'tepid bath' jibe has done a lot of damage
Starmer has undermined the leadership of the civil service in the very week that he appointed a new cabinet secretary
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NEW: Starmer writes to civil servants promising that his ministers will provide the leadership officials need to deliver and asking them to be "emboldened to upset the apple cart" www.civilserviceworld.com/professions/...
Starmer asks civil service to be 'emboldened to upset the apple cart'
Email to civil servants promises that ministers will provide the leadership officials need for delivery
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DHSC permanent secretary Sir Chris Wormald has been named as the next cabinet secretary, replacing Simon Case www.civilserviceworld.com/professions/...
Chris Wormald named cabinet secretary
DHSC permanent secretary will replace Simon Case as head of civil service
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As well as criticising over-politicisation at No.10, ex cabinet secretary Lord Butler also took aim at Americanisation. He said the concept of having a “chief of staff” is “like chewing gum and Halloween: an unwelcome import from the United States”. www.civilserviceworld.com/professions/...
Civil service being marginalised and over-politicised, former cab secs warn
Political staff in No.10 'have almost completely taken over', former top civil servants say
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NEW @civilserviceworld.bsky.social deep dive. I took a look at recently-released data on desk space across government and asked what DESNZ has been doing to address capacity concerns at its HQ www.civilserviceworld.com/in-depth/art...
Is DESNZ’s HQ the government’s most crowded office?
CSW takes a look at recently-released data on desk space across government
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Faith in the civil service - @tevyemarkson.bsky.social talking to @teodorgrama.bsky.social www.civilserviceworld.com/professions/...
'No religion' becomes largest faith group in the civil service
Around 15% of civil servants now report that they have no religion, up from 10% five years ago
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Was just grimacing at the (counts) 51 tabs 😬 I have open on Chrome on my work laptop, when I thought of a joke: What did the neglected internet browser say to the human. Why aren’t you keeping tabs on me?
A trip to a French bakery can swiftly bring you back down to earth. My first Substack post open.substack.com/pub/tevye/p/...
Just over a month after Nin Pandit was appointed as Keir Starmer's principal private secretary, the Cabinet Office has launched a recruitment campaign for a permanent PPS. Read our story 👇 www.civilserviceworld.com/news/article...
Cabinet Office seeks new PPS for Starmer, weeks after Pandit 'appointment'
Recruitment campaign offers up to £149k a year for permanent successor to Elizabeth Perelman
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Hello! I'm a senior reporter at Civil Service World, the publication for civil servants in the UK. Going to start sharing civil service-related stories here plus anything else I'm working on