There’s a welter of words to describe a bureaucrat - and they’re found in every major language in the world because such people exist in every government in the world. The UK leads with four (boffin, grand panjandrum, whey-faced poltroon, Poobah), which perfectly describes what goes on in Whitehall and the Palace of Westminster. Mother Russia has thre…
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