Civil servants at the Information Commissioner’s Office have truly mastered the art of turning work hours into staff network social time. According to an FOI request from the TaxPayers’ Alliance, seen by Guido, between April 2024 and March 2025, ICO pen-pushers clocked up a total of 8 hours over 10 meetings in “Inclusion” staff network meetings. Meanwhile, the “Pride” network soaked up 11 hours across 14 meetings. A further 10 hours over 14 meetings were dedicated to “Race, Ethnicity, Culture, and Heritage” discussions. Naturally all during working hours…
Some more notable events include:
All of this ‘staff network’ time is backed by a taxpayer budget of £12,000. Time for that ‘bonfire’…
Speaking to Adam Boulton on Times Radio about kicking the Golders Green suspect, Heidi Alexander said:
“I thought that if I was in the shoes of that police officer, then if I’m honest, given the situation, and the fact that he had a backpack on his back, and they were worried about whether that might go off, I could, if I was a police officer, frankly, I could see myself having taken similar action.”