If salaries and benefits for even a twentieth of those sinecures were redirected to actual benefits, the difference it could make in needy veterans’ lives could be substantial. With those two ...
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 ...
The biggest victories of these redirected revolutions are often “social justice sinecures,” or carved-out positions for the elites among supposedly marginalized groups. According to al-Gharbi, elite ...
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 ...
“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 ...
In truth, the politician has a single and exclusive role: to get re-elected. His primary responsibility is to his party and its members. He owes them patronage: jobs, sinecures, guaranteed income or ...
When his last four predecessors had let down the country and had walked away into an inglorious sunset with their sinecures and post retiral benefits. Never before had the nation nurtured such high ...