All must have prizes
Paul Pugh, the £104,000-a-year chief executive of the Passport Office, was nominated for ‘leader of the year’ in the government’s Investors in People Awards, in spite of long delays in passport issues. Some more pointless public sector awards:
— UK Public Sector Communications Awards. Currently held by Derbyshire County Council, for telling the public it was going to snow. Not to be confused with the Public Sector Communications Excellence Awards.
— Government Opportunities Excellence in Public Procurement Awards, held by NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde for the £842 million South Glasgow Hospitals, which have yet to open.
— And the Eurovision of the public sector, the European Public Sector Awards, held by the Italian Department for Public Administration.
The family of nations
The Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham claims to be the world’s newest independent state.
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