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Up to their Trotters in Slurry

In a pleasant bar overlooking the Thames, people chat, drink and smoke. Plumes of cigarette smoke spiral up to the ornate high ceilings, but no one seems a bit concerned. How can this be? Dont they...

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Dont Shoot the Expert

Yesterday there was a furore because a minister in the Department of Business mentioned the words ‘green shoots’. For some reason, which is only known to the politarrati, this phrase is poison and...

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A Crisis of Project Delivery

Lord Laming who reviewed children’s services in 2003 following the death of Victoria Climbia, was asked by Children’s Secretary Ed Balls to look again following the death of Baby P. What he found was...

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Porridge Best Served Cold

“Norman Stanley Fletcher, you have pleaded guilty to the charges brought by this court and it is now my duty to pass sentence. You are an habitual criminal who accepts arrest as an occupational hazard...

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Getting the Government off the High St and Online

  The Times reveals how the government is going to give every citizen a page online from where they can access government services. (see here). To be fair despite the vitriol on these pages re...

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Probation Officers Cannot Access New System

  The National Association of Probation Officers has said that it was “extraordinary” that an IT system failure left over half of London’s probation staff without access to their computers. Employees...

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Blackberries Beat Bobbies

The NAO reckons that the bobbies are only getting a “basic level” of benefit from the programme to equip them with mobiles, mostly that they can pound the pavements for a bit longer. Only one in five...

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£376m Projects at Risk

The UK National Audit Office, the statutory authority that reports to Parliament on the efficiency and effectiveness of resource deployment by government departments, says that 39 of 205 projects in...

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Culture of Secrecy on IT Projects Challenged

The Cabinet Office has insisted that it will publish details of the progress of major government IT projects, despite fears that government promises of transparency were in danger of being watered down...

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Virgin West Coast Debacle

  It was with great restraint I managed to avoid going off the rails  and ranting about the Department for Transport’s incompetent handling of the Virgin West Coast On the Buses debacle. Those of us...

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