Digital by Default

This coming week marks the 10 year anniversary of making the then ‘new’ Office for National Statistics website ‘live’. Thus bringing to a close the most intense, exciting, stressful, interesting, exhausting, all-consuming and occasionally fun couple of years of my career. A project that to this day defines me professionally (it is definitely part of…

The month in numbers 20 days worked 04 in Manchester office 04 in London (Whitechapel) office 01 in Bristol office 02 team nights out 01 in Birmingham for Govcamp 01 sinus infection  16 team one-to-ones [with 08 team members] 02 new laptops 02 new emails (DSIT and Cabinet Office) 10 mandatory e-learning courses 01 org…

I saw Doug answered these questions (from Steph Ango, CEO of Obsidian) on his blog and it seemed like a nice exercise to close out the year – though it turns out my answers were all pretty dull!  What did you do this year that you’d never done before? Keynoted at a ‘proper’ conference (Camp…

Obviously the big agenda item for 2026 is the new job. I start as the new Head of Products and Services for the National Data Library at GDS at the start of January. Returning to the Civil Service proper – itself a surprise – for the kind of high profile initiative that I maybe thought…