Call me suspicious, but as sure as slurry runs downhill, I suspect the current row over Greensill and second jobs for civil servants will eventually end up having the biggest impact on those at the bottom of the oven. The current row started with a former head of Whitehall procurement being revealed to have a "second job" with Greensill Capital. As a result the head of the civil service has ordered Government departments to tell him how many other civil servants have second jobs. I assume the Cabinet Secretary is just interested in "top" civil servants - senior managers with the knowledge and connections to benefit private enterprise. I really hope this isn't going to be the start of a grand campaign that blusters down to the lowest levels of the civil service. At the lower grades, some civil servants are so poorly paid that - before the pandemic - they felt the need to take a second job. Others are involved with family businesses and do a bit of work at weeken...