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Book Review: Introducing Policework

If there is a theme to the book it is the familiar one of the relative economic, political and social decline of the United Kingdom, and of the part played in that decline by the self-perpetuating elite known as senior civil servants. The argument is essentially the old Fultonian one of a civil service not suited to the needs of contemporary society. Thus, there is nothing particularly original here not in content, nor in argument. But Peter Hennessy has done a most valuable service in writing a book about Whitehall which is thoroughly entertaining and readable, with a wide range of sources, both academic and anecdotal, and which brings so much, so well, into one volume.