The art of ethical public administration, of “doing good while doing well”, is built upon yet another parallax: the parallax of deontology and consequentialism. On the one hand, public servants, administrators, and officials have a duty (and therefore obligations) to the organizations in which they serve. On the other hand, that duty has a consequentialist slant: to uphold and enhance the common good, however this may be defined. Again let us appreciate that this is not a paradox, and these positions need not be thought of as antagonistic, but as distinctly different approaches to the same ethical issues. One of the most famous cases in recent UK political history illustrates this situation admirably