The future of digital services in local government

How might we enable local authorities to use high…

GOV.UK Forms and the State of Government as a Platform

GOV.UK Forms is great

What’s GDS ever done for us? Many, many good things.

For a while now I’ve wanted to write a blog post on what I consider to be GDS’s biggest failings and how it’s not too late to start addressing those issues. However, for balance, before I write that blog post I want to highlight the very…

Kill your d̶a̶r̶l̶i̶n̶g̶s̶ slacks

Frustrations with the UK civic technology scene

Let’s start with me saying that I love slack. Sure, it’s just a tarted up pseudo-IRC with delusions of grandeur and an impressive integration platform but it’s by far the best way we have at the…

Review : The Moral Landscape by Sam Harris

I saw Mr Harris at a disappointing IQ² debate recently — disappointing partly as his opponent seemed to either agree with most of what he was saying and partly because he was obviously very jetlagged. Really it was part of a book tour for The Moral…

Evolution of online forums

I stopped using social media almost two years ago and I’m pretty out of practice at writing blogs posts — something I definitely want to work on in the coming weeks. This means that it’s been a while since I’ve had regular practice at “putting things out there” and especially in…