[The Weeping Angel]

Wait, I thought the problem was that there was a boys' club in Number 10.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Ball knows absolutely nothing about her, and is posing as some sort of Whitehall face.

[Tubby Isaacs]

I noticed Romeo, if anything, being too political in her social media, sounding like a Tory minister, rather than a civil servant. I'm hoping that was her just having a particular understanding of the job, rather than being her actual personal brand.

I see the Telegraph has already gone for Romeo bullying claims covered up. I thought civil servants needed a rocket up them, from the likes of Dominic Cummings. All sounds a bit woke, like rightwing Tories talking about Chagossians.

[The Weeping Angel]

There's more here.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn0zjw5pz48o

s the UK's consul general between 2016 and 2017 Dame Antonia's job involved promoting UK trade and business in New York, in the immediate aftermath of the referendum to take Britain out of the EU.

The BBC has learned that 47% of staff in New York said they had experienced bullying in the workplace in an annual staff survey - the highest level ever recorded anywhere in the Foreign Office.

It is understood that in most government departments or divisions the figure is usually in low single figures.

The survey covered a 12 month period, including three months in which Dame Antonia was in post.

Dame Antonia's critics acknowledge her abilities in the documents seen by the BBC, with one saying she was "smart, dynamic and really talented." Another said she was an "extremely intelligent, innovative thinker".

But there was also criticism of her management style, with one person saying she was "very demanding, very disrespectful, very threatening".

"I'm used to big egos but this was something else. The minute she heard the word 'no' she'd say I'll go to your boss. But it was worse than that. She would go to your boss's boss and your boss's boss's boss," they added.

Someone else told us: "If you don't say 'yes' to her she's not only going to screw your career, but she'll screw all of those around you."

Her approach, it was claimed, "inflames rather than calms a situation" and "creates a culture of fear and anxiety".

The majority of the complaints seen by the BBC were from female members of staff.

The allegations were so serious a former ambassador to Japan, Sir Tim Hitchens, was flown to New York to look into it.

His work examined allegations of "bullying behaviour, financial probity, and putting her private objectives above those of the wider Consulate-General or government".

The BBC has been told the Foreign Office's investigation concluded there was a case for Dame Antonia to answer about her behaviour towards colleagues, but there was no case to answer about what was called "financial probity" and is understood to refer to expenses.