The Naked Civil Servant (book) The Naked Civil Servant (book) The Naked Civil Servant is the 1968 autobiography of British gay icon Quentin Crisp, adapted into a 1975 film of the same name starring John Hurt. The book began as a 1964 radio interview with Crisp conducted by his friend and fellow eccentric Philip O'Connor. A managing director at Jonathan Cape heard the interview and commissioned the publication. Having sold only 3,500 copies when first released, the book became a success when it was republished following the television movie broadcast. The book contains many anecdotes about Crisp's life from childhood to middle age, including troubles
Sue Gray (civil servant) Sue Gray (civil servant) Sue Gray is a senior Civil Servant in the United Kingdom working for Government. She currently serves as the Permanent Secretary of the Department of Finance in the Northern Ireland Executive. Before that, she served for 20 years in the Cabinet Office as the Director-General of the Propriety and Ethics Team and Head of Private Offices Group in the Cabinet Office. In her rôle overseeing ministerial offices and ethics in government, Gray was described as "the woman who runs the country". She run the Plebgate inquiry inside the Cabinet Office, the 2012 reform of non-departmental public