Rohan Silva
Life inside a Whitehall department can be comically slow and sober — it makes a municipal library seem like the Berghain. When I worked in the Treasury yonks ago, the sleepy gentility of the place used to drive me a bit loopy.
But one morning I ambled into work and the whole place was in a surreal tizzy — phones were ringing non-stop, and people were running pell-mell around the floor.
