Watch the magician's other hand

Allegedly, May wants to break up the Ministry of Justice (sic) and Paul Goodman thinks this would be futile. But I'm not so sure.

Abolishing, splitting and merging departments has one great benefit: it allows civil servants to be moved around and pockets of self-interest to be broken up. This is particularly useful where group think is found, or where a department or sub-department consistently fails to deliver due to some ideological bent which might be at odds with the declared purpose of the department.

That said, I'm a little suspicious of changes being made to the justice departments, at a time when so much constitutional meddling and malfeasance is threatening to cause something of a political / constitutional crisis.

Reorganising a department means changing stats; a great way to manipulate them.

Watch the hand to which the magician is not drawing your attention ...