Martin Stanley’s Substack

This newsletter reports and analyses the latest news concerning the UK Civil Service, including concerns about its effectiveness and its relationship with ministers. There are also occasional forays into regulation.

I used be a Senior Civil Servant in the Business Department and the Cabinet Office.  I then became Chief Executive of the Better Regulation Executive, the postal industry regulator Postcomm, and the Competition Commission.

My publications are a major resource for those interested in the Civil Service. My website attracts c.500,000 page views a year and I have sold c.7,000 copies of How to be a Civil Servant. It is therefore important that my writing is kept accurate and up-to-date. So please do not hesitate to email me with corrections and additions to anything that I have written.

My publications include:

• How to be a Civil Servant: Whitehall Explained,

• Civil Servants, Ministers and Parliament: The Westminster Model:-
  Impartiality, Accountability & all that, and

• Speaking Truth to Power: How to have people listen to your advice and act on it, as well as …

• the Understanding the Civil Service website.

I am currently writing a:

• Civil Servants’ Survival Kit

Please do subscribe to this newsletter as this encourages me to continue writing.

Martin Stanley