Dominic Cummings: Number 10 is hiring

Dominic Cummings posted this rather distinctive call for scientists, ‘unusual mathematicians’ and ‘weirdos’ to come work for Number 10 and the Civil Service on his personal blog today. The full job advert is published below:

There are many brilliant people in the civil service and politics. Over the past five months the No. 10 political team has been lucky to work with some fantastic officials. But there are also some profound problems at the core of how the British state makes decisions. This was seen by pundit-world as a very eccentric view in 2014. It is no longer seen as eccentric. Dealing with these deep problems is supported by many great officials, particularly younger ones, though of course there will naturally be many fears — some reasonable, most unreasonable.

Now there is a confluence of: a) Brexit requires many large changes in policy and in the structure of decision-making, b) some people in government are prepared to take risks to change things a lot, and c) a new government with a significant majority and little need to worry about short-term unpopularity while trying to make rapid progress with long-term problems.