Return of the Perpendicular Pronoun

Sir Humphrey keen to leave sidelines (FT article)

References to Yes, Minister in that staidest of broadsheets: all's right with the world.

Somehow the concept of crushing civil-service inertia sounds to me a lot more comfortable than the current situation. "I think the Prime Minister wants to govern Britain"---"Well stop him, Bernard"---suddenly sounds like a good idea.