Editing Civil Service (United Kingdom) (section)

==In popular culture==
The [[BBC]] television series ''[[Yes Minister]]'' and ''[[Yes, Prime Minister]]'' are a [[satire]] on the British [[civil service]] and its relationship with government ministers. The portrayal is a caricature of the civil service predominantly characterised through [[Nigel Hawthorne|Sir Nigel Hawthorne]]'s [[Humphrey Appleby|Sir Humphrey Appleby]].

''[[The Thick of It]]'', first broadcast in 2005, is a similar BBC television series that has been called "the 21st century's answer to ''Yes Minister''". The series portrays a modernised version of the interactions between the Civil Service and the Government (chiefly in the form of [[Special advisers in the United Kingdom|special advisers]]), as well as the media's involvement in the process.

There is a long history of civil servants who are also literary authors, who often comment on their own institutions, including such writers as [[Geoffrey Chaucer]], [[John Milton]], [[John Dryden]], [[Andrew Marvell]], [[Robert Burns]], [[William Wordsworth]] and [[Anthony Trollope]], and diarist [[Samuel Pepys]].