Cynics of government will find a delight in reading Charles Dickens’ Little Dorrit, especially Chapter 10 “Containing the Whole Science of Government.” “The Circumlocution Office was (as everybody ...

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Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. This is an important announcement regarding the Commonwealth Department of Circumlocution. Benign to Five will return next week. Dating ...

It is 65 years since the end of the Second World War. To be precise, the war in Europe ended on May 8, 1945, when the Allied Forces formally accepted the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany and ...

Bully for the Circumlocution Office. What? You don’t know what that is? Why, it is the famous office first created by Charles Dickens in his novel Little Dorrit in which nothing ever happens except ...