..at least not at old Government websites. There was an interesting debate online last week for anybody interested in digital government and particularly the work of the ‘Government Digital Service’. Chris Cook, an editor on Newsnight and formerly at the Financial Times, wrote an article on the BBC website that lambasted the work of GDS…

I don’t have what you would call a healthy relationship with my work. I am self aware enough to realise this but not really mentally equipped to do anything about it. I lurch from frustration to disengagement to obsession to anxiety and back again on a pretty regular basis. Currently I am hovering somewhere between…

All photos courtesy of David Pearson https://www.flickr.com/photos/davidpea/sets/72157646722886933 So this week with considerable assistance from the main organisers in London and the very generous sponsorship of the Just Eat technical team in Bristol I helped put on a 300 Seconds event in Bristol. For those that don’t know 300 Seconds is; “..a series of talks by…

I’ve been accused of reverse snobbery more than once in my life. I wonder if this a particularly British thing as I don’t know of many other places quite so obsessed with the ‘class system’. I had a pretty pathological distrust of anyone who attended public school and attendees of what I now know to…

As Adrian Mole might have said I am 41 and a half. This is, according to authoritative sources (well Wikipedia), about the time when a ‘mid life crisis’ might occur. I’m not sure if that is what I experiencing but I am certainly going through an introspective phase that had previously been pretty absent from…