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...
View ArticleDont 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...
View ArticleA 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...
View ArticlePorridge 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...
View ArticleGetting 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...
View ArticleProbation 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...
View ArticleBlackberries 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...
View Article£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...
View ArticleCulture 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...
View ArticleVirgin 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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