New year, new career? Dominic Cummings wants “weirdos and misfits” to help him shake up Whitehall.
As part of his plans to shake up the way the government is run, the Prime Minister’s chief adviser has urged “true wild cards” to bypass the civil service formal recruitment process and get in touch with him personally via email.
Apparently Cummings wants to recruit unusual mathematicians, software developers and economists, but also “great project managers”.
Whether this includes “weirdos from William Gibson novels” with radical ideas about the planning system, land use or the planning process is unclear. What is clear, if somewhat hypocritical, is that Cummings, who studied history at Oxford, wants fewer Oxbridge humanities students running the civil service.
