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Have you ever worked in the Her Majesty's Civil Service? As an external you can't even go to the loo without an escort or signed pass.


Mundane, draconian bureaucracy is about as British as beans on toast. HMSC is just keeping the time honoured tradition alive.


I’ve been to a lot of .gov offices in the US.

It’s always surprising to me. The most intense over the top security process I ever ran into was an agency that disbursed grants to artists.


I had to get a pass to go to the bathroom as a guest at a Google office once too.


Both institutions with nation state level security threats.




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