Bruno: "You like my theories? You think they're okay?" Guy: "Sure, Bruno. They're all okay!" Senior Managers in the Civil Service must  often feel like Guy Haines in "Strangers On A Train" , going along with Bruno Antony's whimsical rambling and then suddenly realising they've committed themselves to a course of action that can only end in disaster.  Government departments are boasting they're going to shift posts out of London to level up the regions, at the same time as HM Revenue and Customs has been shutting down offices in the regions in order to move posts into the cities. Criss Cross, as Bruno would say. Things weren't much different back in 2005, when HM Customs and Excise and the Inland Revenue merged into   HM Revenue and Customs . The Civil Service was being measured up for surgery by the efficiency experts Gershon and Lyons. Peter Gershon prescribed resources being redirected to "the frontline", while academi...