Digital by Default

So as most people now know my next role is going to be at the Environment Agency. Still #oftheGovernment, as Mr Caplin once wrote, for a while yet at least. I join in about a month — just in time for the Severn Tunnel to close which would have made getting to ONS something of a struggle…

For the second summer in a row ‘digital’ in government has become newsworthy not for a massive overspend or service failure but due to shenanigans at the leadership level. It is ‘House of (Punch) Cards’ once again and really not the sort of thing you expect as a civil service geek. I’m not sure I’m…