Every ministry, every state agency, every over-staffed and under-performing creation of a government whose strongest raison d’être is the creation of jobs for pals and sinecures for cadres. They’re ...
The princes were swept out of their sinecures by the “revolt” of 1932, believed by many Siamese to have been hatched with at least the tacit consent of His Majesty who bobbed up smiling ...
“Devolved agencies such as the Police Complaints Authority tend to become sinecures for retired judges and treated with disdain by the GPF itself. An attempt to change the name from ‘Force ...