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Draft please
Toil for hours producing a coherent and impressive letter so that I can fulfil my teacher fantasy by needlessly tweaking it
Fast Stream
The civil service equivalent of Top Gun, but with overtones of sending small children up chimneys or down coal mines
Information management
So much more than just filing
White paper
Soft, strong, absorbent – and perforated at both ends. Easily disposed of once used
Joined-up thinking
Talking to a department other than your own more than once a year
Inclined to look favourably upon
So that's a yes, then?
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Terminological inexactitudes: handy translations of Whitehall jargon (Vol. I)
Terminological inexactitudes: handy translations of Whitehall jargon (Vol. 2)
Terminological inexactitudes: handy translations of Whitehall jargon (Vol. 3)
Terminological inexactitudes: handy translations of Whitehall jargon (Vol. 4)
Terminological inexactitudes: handy translations of Whitehall jargon (Vol. 5)
Terminological inexactitudes: handy translations of Whitehall jargon (Vol. 6)
Terminological inexactitudes: handy translations of Whitehall jargon (Vol. 7)