It was interesting earlier today to watch Charles Clarke and John Prescott on the BBC’s Politics Show talking about the future of Gordon Brown and the Labour party. On hand Charles Clarke is a Brown sceptic and wants there to ...

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It’s been a long, long day, but at least I got to watch the final episode of Dr Who when I got home. I wasn’t as inspired by the talks as other people seem to have been – the ones I attended seemed reasonably prosaic, although I...

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I realise I’ve probably come to this a little late, but after reading the story of the chap in Bristol who chained himself to a lamppost in order to stop the council from taking it away who said “Retired people like me are going to lead the revolution”, it now seems obvious that this really is going to be the case in the future. ...

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of the £14bn spent on technology in UK government every year (over 50% of all IT spend in the whole of Britain), around 70% of all projects end in failure e-Government in the UK – call that transformation?

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Danger! Mental dumping ground ahead! Like loads of other IT people in the UK, I’ve been pretty worried about the forthcoming compulsory centralised ID database in the UK. I’ve previously written to my MP, joined ORG and tried to spre...

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