Colleagues have accused the prime minister's office of backgrounding journalists from sympathetic news organisations on cabinet decisions.
The SRC and its companion research councils had been established by the government in response to a report by the secretary to the cabinet, Sir Burke Trend, on the organisation of civil science, emphasising the desirability of strong working relationships between the universities and government laboratories.
We hear how Blair "presidentialised" the prime minister's office, turning his cabinet into a rubber-stamping organisation, but none of these examples of moral failing are used to build a meaningful theory, psychological or political, of why Blair acted as he did.
In a letter to the cabinet secretary on Friday, science organisations expressed their "deep concern" over recent amendments to the code, which demand that all civil servants, including government researchers, seek ministerial approval before they talk to the media.
As well as Saudi-style counselling and rehab centres, the law would reportedly introduce fines of up to $27m, life imprisonment and the death penalty as sentences for those convicted of terrorism, as well as giving the cabinet the ability to designate organisations as terrorist groups.
An extra-judicial announcement by the interim cabinet declaring the Brotherhood "a terrorist organisation" in December 2013 was followed by a court ruling.
This organisation brings together the cabinet, natural disaster response agency, ministry of agriculture, livestock, forestry and fisheries, private sector and various NGOs.
(No compulsory evening classes, though, for the cabinet).This time it is the employers' organisation, the CBI, that has suddenly woken up to a problem.
Former cabinet minister Patricia Hewitt has said that the organisation to which she and her former Labour colleague Harriet Harman belonged was "naive and wrong" to accept the assurances of a paedophile group that it was a campaigning and counselling organisation.
