Working the people  Politicians' lives are all stress and toil,
so they tell us. It might be beneficial if they cut their hours
So, blearily, government offices re-open, factories closed for
an artificially long break think about turning on the lights
again, and the fortnight of footling around we don't somehow
count as a public holiday is over. The hardworking families so
relentlessly invoked by politicians are going back to do
business - if they can. But what, pray, about hardworking
politicians?  The question is asked in best Whitehall mode, as
spur to one time and motion study that doesn't exist. We know
how civil servants and quango operators can do better. The
management consultants crawl over them endlessly. What we don't
know is how major ministers - leaders of men - organise
themselves to organise us. The familiar story tells of constant
toil, stress, exhaustion. But the reality seems somehow oddly
various.  The US throws it into starkest relief. There's Jimmy
Carter, haggard before his time, tied t