Grayscale

PAUL GRAY, the chief civil servant at the centre of the missing child benefit computer discs, was widely praised for 'doing the honourable thing' by resigning his top post at HM Revenue and Customs.

This 'selfless act' helped to save Chancellor Alistair Darling, already under pressure to resign following the Northern Rock banking fiasco.

However, it appears that Mr Gray has been quickly rewarded for acting 'honourably' to take the flak for Labour ministers. Gray has been given a plum £200,000 a year post working for the Cabinet office. His employment brief is a project helping to 'develop civil servants' skills'!

System change not climate change

Feature: The free market brings fire, flood and famine

Workplace news and analysis

DWP strike: Fighting low pay

Socialists and the trade union leaderships

What we think

Labour's funding scandal

How New Labour got hooked

Grayscale

Education

No to academy schools!

Compulsory school to 18 - a rosy future for young people?

Child poverty rises

Rail fares unfair

International socialist news and analysis

Chavez referendum result a big setback

Annapolis - a framework for further conflict

Intelligence on Iran wrong

Disunited Russia

Italy: transport strike

Kosova: After the elections - before the explosion

Northern Ireland classroom assistants

Argos strike in southern Ireland

South African miners strike over safety

Socialist Party review

The socialist review: 'Taking Liberties'

Post Office and CWU

Keep the 'people's Post Office' public

CWU ballot result

Workplace news

Unison's right wing still witch-hunting

Save Cadbury jobs!

Manchester's striking mental health workers: Defending trade union rights

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