Dear Cat…

The Department for Transport’s permanent secretary again confides in his cat about the stresses and strains of his post

There are times when you just have to thank your lucky stars. The prime minister was good enough to give me a team of ministers who, relatively speaking, are pretty easy to manage. Norman Baker has a habit of saying what he thinks - never an endearing quality in a minister - but overall, I can’t complain. Unlike my opposite number in Communities and Local Government who really has got the short straw with Eric Pickles in charge, the Conservative Party’s answer to John Prescott, in...