Just as big technology companies are increasingly employing senior social scientists, so government needs to complement the knowledge and experience of someone like Sir Mark Walport with a heavyweight social scientist, who can assist him in tapping into a deeper understanding of human systems.
Schools are increasingly struggling to recruit senior teachers, while at the same time finding that newly qualified teachers are ill prepared to start working in the classroom, a leading teaching union has warned.
Even though seniors are increasingly physically active, they are also watching more television and remain far easier to reach than the young, he said.
If this is so, it would not be surprising: senior judges are increasingly at loggerheads with the government.
But senior Tories are increasingly hopeful that they have achieved at least a mild thaw.
My colleague John Cassidy has pointed out that Trump, Jr., increasingly looks like a fall guy for a White House whose senior officials are increasingly compromised.
Senior officials are increasingly fearful that the political system may be broken beyond repair, calling into question conventions about their role and even their political neutrality.
The vast majority of this spending was on players' wages rather than on clubs' other employees, although some senior staff are increasingly well paid.
The leak of the helicopter video, which Wikileaks titled "Collateral Murder," caused serious consternation at the Pentagon, where senior officials are increasingly concerned about technology that makes it easier to anonymously post documents, photographs and videos online.
But the publication today of another tranche of management expenses suggests its most senior executives are increasingly parsimonious, at least when it comes to claiming back taxis, hotels and meals.
Senior posts are increasingly being occupied by "Tony's cronies". It is no secret that most, if not all, Foreign Office officials have deep doubts about the Iraq war, or at least the way it was done," according to a senior diplomat.
