British government recruiting openly embraced chaotic, narrative-defying politics.

Evidence

The ad was put out by Dominic Cummings, a rogue senior adviser to Prime Minister Boris Johnson with a keen interest in William Gibson’s speculative fiction political novels and an avowed aspiration to run the government like NASA. The story is particularly striking because it seemed to clearly and publicly articulate Surkov’s dogma in the nerve center of UK government-making special references to the great value of a chaotic way of conducting politics, doing things that “always look messy,” and, importantly, “not caring about trying to control the narrative” (which centrist Labour and Conservative governments had both attempted to do in previous decades). — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 257

Categorization

Category: Factual Claims

• SHARE: The Cummings Downing Street job ad — a government seeking ‘wild cards who fought out of appalling hell holes’ — is a perfect anecdote for anyone interested in British politics or chaos strategy.
• CANDY: A UK government job ad literally asked for ‘true wild cards, artists, people who never went to university and fought their way out of an appalling hell hole.’