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Ancient and modern

What difference will ‘weirdos and misfits’ make to the civil service?

11 January 2020

9:00 AM

11 January 2020

9:00 AM

Dominic Cummings has written a modest blog inviting mathematicians, physicists, AI specialists and other experts to help him revolutionise the civil service with new standards of accurate, precision planning. Before he does so, perhaps he might reflect a little on the Ancient History side of the degree he studied at Oxford and the need for such precision.

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