Bureaucracy hall of fame

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You all know how the JC feels about awards, but there are some fields of human endeavour it would be wrong to not recognise. Such as bureaucracy. So, from time to time we'll include — under cloak of anonymity, for it is axiomatic that no bureaucrat does what she does for personal vainglory, but purely out of a full-blooded and plausibly deniable commitment to the rigorous, orderly and fully auditable machination of human activity, and in the service of vanquishing mortal caprice — some recognition of bureacratic excellence. The bureaucrat’s art, like that of the graffito, is of the spheres — a pure, ego-less submission to craft; a resounding cheer at the victory of form over substance.

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