When senior civil servant Olly Robbins was dismissed from the Foreign Office last week over Peter Mandelson’s appointment as US ambassador, some senior civil servants said it was unfair. But on Novara Live, James Schneider argues that - far from being “brilliant” and “saintly” - civil servants are “deeply enmeshed in power structures that work against us”. Robbins himself is no innocent. He personally oversaw the destruction of information leaked to the Guardian by Edward Snowden in 2013 – and did a three-year stint at Goldman Sachs in between appointments to public office.

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