Encouraging news from PS News’s exclusive World PS News bulletin this week that the United Kingdom’s public sector has streaked away up the regular survey of 24 trusted professions over the past year.
“A total of 62 per cent of survey respondents said they trusted PS employees to tell the truth – up from 59 per cent in 2017 and 56 per cent in 2016,” the imported report reports.
But all was not good news for the sector.
“While trust in PS employees is high, the opposite is the case with the Ministers they serve,” it added solemnly.
The survey found that less than one in four Englishpersons (22 per cent) trusted their Government’s Ministers to tell the truth and even fewer (19 per cent) trusted politicians generally.
For the record, nurses were the most highly trusted professionals in Britain, notching up 96 per cent of believers, followed closely by doctors at 92 per cent.
“PS employees were also outranked in the survey by judges, members of the armed forces and the police, but came ahead of pollsters, charity chief executives and bankers.”
The survey found the Ministers and other politicians among the bottom five for trust, along with real estate agents, journalists and advertising executives.
Whoa!!! Journalists?
Trust me – it depends on the journalist!
Read the full story at this PS News link.
Noughty thoughts
The transparent attempt by this column to make something out of nothing last week – as opposed to our more common practice of making nothing out of something – attracted the welcome attention of Catriona V of the ACT Public Service who wrote in to take us up on our challenge and share her view of the real personality of the number ‘zero’.
Is it plural or is it single?
“Here’s my personal insight,” wrote the unexpectedly poetic but numerically numerate Catriona.
“One may wonder
If plural was a blunder,
As zero happens once
And one may be a dunce,
If describing it as many
When there really isn’t any!”
Brilliant Catriona. Well done!
At least one – possibly one plus none – fabulous book prize(s) is/are on its/their way as our way of thanking you for playing with PS-sssst!
We hope you have a great Christmas with it or them.
Coming up to win
To Rama Gaind’s weekly giveaway now in which three lucky readers will go away with a copy of the DVD love story with the underwater edge Submergence, starring James McAvoy, Alicia Vikander.
To be named a winner, all you needed to do was read Rama’s review of Submerged and then tell her who the two main actors were.
The answer is the very obvious James McAvoy and Alicia Vikander and the three readers with the correct entry who also scrambled out of PS News’s Barrel of Booty first were Kathy W from the Federal Department of Health, Nicola P from the Queensland Department of Housing and Public Works and Veronica B from the national Department of the Environment and Energy.
Congratulations to all the winners and thanks to everyone who took part. The DVD prizes will be on their way shortly.
And as the excitement of Rama’s giveaway dies away the way it does, it is PS-sssst’s duty to report that that was the last giveaway for 2018.
On behalf of Rama and the whole crew at PS News, a huge thankyou to the hundreds of readers who joined in the fun and took part in the weekly giveaways and we hope you have a safe and relaxing holiday season.
Rama has assured us she will be back with another treasure trove overflowing with freebies in the New Year.
If nothing else, that’s one thing to come back to work for!
Signed up and up
And finally, another month, another record broken in the PS News subscriptions stakes with a most impressive 2,445 sparkling new readers signing up to join the family, taking the combined national readership to a first-ever 204,225 subscribers with all but one State’s edition setting personal bests and hitting new heights.
For the record, the totals as at 30 November were Australian Public Service 76,228 subscribers; NSW 28,536; Victoria 27,322; QLD 16,927; ACT 15,680; Tasmania 15,115; WA 13,587; SA, 9,737 and NT 1,093.
And the moral of this story is? You’re never alone if you’re reading PS News!
Till 2018’s last edition next week …….
