Portrait of a profession revisited
Portrait of a profession revisited
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2002
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Sir Richard Wilson
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Sir Richard Wilson
我私人办公室的墙上挂着我七位杰出的前任内阁秘书的照片。我有时发现自己盯着它们寻找灵感，我承认并不总是成功。
一两个星期前，我发现自己在看伟大的布里奇斯勋爵，1938年至1946年的内阁和战时内阁秘书。我想知道如果在一周的时间里，他的前任之一在《旁观者》杂志上发表了一篇文章，宣传为“公务员的堕落”，另一篇出现在弗罗斯特的节目中，向世界保证服务仍然处于良好状态，他会怎么做。
我必须指出，两位前任总督巴特勒勋爵和阿姆斯特朗勋爵都是本着最支持的精神行事，并从我们大家对公务员角色的深刻认同出发发表讲话。但是，盯着布里奇斯，我可以看到一个气泡从他的嘴里冒出来，询问：你的手表上到底发生了什么，理查德爵士？
On the walls of my private office hang the photographs of my seven distinguished predecessors as Secretary of the Cabinet. I sometimes find myself staring at them for inspiration, not always successfully I admit.
A week or two ago I found myself looking at the great Lord Bridges, Secretary of the Cabinet and War Cabinet from 1938 to 1946. I wondered what he would have made of it if in the space of a week one of his predecessors had published an article in The Spectator advertised as ‘The Descent of the Civil Servant’ and another had appeared on the Frost programme to reassure the world that the Service was still in good shape.
Both predecessors, Lords Butler and Armstrong, I hasten to say, were acting in the most supportive spirit and spoke from what for all of us is a deeply shared view of the role of the Civil Service. But, staring at Bridges, I could see a bubble emerging from his mouth enquiring: what precisely is happening on your watch, Sir Richard?