It shouldn’t happen to a Spad
Dec 23, 2020
3 minutes
Roland White
THE PUNISHING HOURS, the backstabbing, the constant manoeuvring for power and influence, and then after two or three years you are marched out of the office, pathetically clutching your possessions in a black bag. As recent events have so amply demonstrated, is there any more soul-destroying occupation than working as a government special adviser?
On the face of it, Peter Cardwell enjoyed a much more glamorous career while he was working in television, both on and . But becoming a special adviser was his dream. “I lived an amazing life,” he writes, “doing the best job in the world — quite literally helping to run the country.”
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