When he isn't playing or cooling his heels in some civil servant's office, Sunny goes slumming.
Lord Alderdice, the former Speaker of the Assembly and retired Irish civil servant Joe Brosnan.
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But has any politician worked with a civil servant who really is just like Sir Humphrey?
Sark's government is to reconsider whether to hire a full-time civil servant at a special sitting.
"He told his ministers to goad the villagers into speaking out, " says a civil servant.
Sadik Imret, a retired civil servant, will not accept what he calls "the slurs".
Sark needs a full-time civil servant, according to the man who has held the post temporarily.
The role of the cabinet secretary, the most senior civil servant, has also changed.
He had been a senior civil servant in the pre-war government, specialising in financial matters.
Sir Leigh Lewis, a veteran civil servant and former permanent secretary, is to chair the committee.
The Welsh Assembly Government's most senior civil servant, Permanent Secretary Dame Gillian Morgan, also gave evidence.
He worked on a cattle station, then as a carpenter, then as a civil servant.
Sir Peter Ricketts, the prime minister's national security advisor, is the civil servant overseeing the process.
That person does not know the difference between a Civil Servant and a Local Authority employee.
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He is the only civil servant who addresses Mr Tung as louhbaan, deferential Cantonese for boss.
Chaudhary Raghvendra Singh was a civil servant with a keen nose for business.
If Ms Jowell had known of this, she should have mentioned it to her senior civil servant.
One veteran civil servant I spoke to lamented that Britain's prime ministerial staff used to be tougher.
But that, says one senior civil servant, would just make Hong Kong like any other Chinese province.
Unlike Mr Hildebrand he has no private-sector experience, being an academic and financial civil servant through and through.
"For years, this country went from government to government, " Lorena Morocho, a 33-year-old civil servant, told the BBC.
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She became municipal secretary of finance for Porto Alegre in 1986, her first job as a civil servant.
Its chief executive is Jon Coles, who was previously a senior civil servant in the Department for Education.
It would be odd if a government did nothing about a civil servant blabbing damagingly to the media.
Festus Mogae, formerly vice-president and a career civil servant, was sworn in on April 1st as his successor.
"You can always tell when a group of Macanese get together, " says Cristina Santos, a Macau civil servant.
In 2005 the average age of a civil servant was 42, three years more than the private-sector mean.
Sir Terence Burns, the senior civil servant at the Treasury, has declared himself satisfied with Mr Robinson's arrangement.
Michael Gove had not been told about claims of bullying by his advisers, a senior civil servant told MPs.
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The civil servant given the job, Kutlu Savas, duly turned in the report.
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