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Back with the tammie norries … as the excellent Wikipedia entry tells us: “they breed in muckle colonies on seawart cleuchs or islands, nestin in craggy scores or in bourie ben the yird”

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BREAKING: George Wendt, who played a beloved barfly on "Cheers" and found another home onstage, dies at 76.

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Another one for the digital identity crowd... The government’s GovUK One Login digital identity system has lost its certification against the government’s own DIATF trust framework for digital identity systems. Read the full story here: www.computerweekly.com/news/3666238...

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Too short of time to read through 30 years of strategies to digitally reform and modernise government? No problem! Here's your friendly AI "bingo card" digest of some of the most regularly re-used soundbites ...

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ah, the latest episode has landed in the UK's ~28 year quest for digital identity... "the sudden...announcement...gave...the impression digital identity was being nationalised...a threat of a national ID card by the back door" www.computerweekly.com/news/3666228...

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Love living in London, although also looking forward to being back in Lerwick again soon

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🚨 EVENT KLAXON! 🚨 The next @transformgovtalks.bsky.social event will be at the MoJ and online on Weds April 30th with the following great speakers. * Catherine Day - cross-government participatory methods forum * Cabinet Office Test, Learn and Grow team Register here : lu.ma/c3wlyoz0

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These alleged failings with GOV.UK One Login remind me of similar issues I encountered in major government programmes ~8 years ago:

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After this week's revelations over security problems in One Login and growing industry concerns over UKgov digital identity policy, my latest take on where we are: UK digital identity turns to drama (or farce?) over industry fears and security doubts - www.computerweekly.com/blog/Compute...

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These alleged failings with GOV.UK One Login remind me of similar issues I encountered in major government programmes ~8 years ago:

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"security failings [with One Login] have still not been addressed ... the information security of the three million users of One Login remains at risk."

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This doesn't explain how digital ID solves anything? Employers/landlords are already legally obliged to check the right to work/reside. "An online wallet already allows users to store government-issued documents on their phones" No. "You can't download or use GOV.UK Wallet yet." www.gov.uk/wallet

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The second edition of 'Fracture. The collision between technology and democracy—and how we fix it' is out

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... another day, another workshop ...

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Just rewatched the original TV series of Edge of Darkness (on, er, DVD as it’s not available from the Beeb at the moment). Still love it. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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no shortage of copyright works that have apparently been used by Meta to train its AI models. I found quite a few of my own amongst them, including at least one book ... #DoTheWriteThing @writersguildgb.bsky.social @alcs.co.uk

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The second edition of 'Fracture. The collision between technology and democracy—and how we fix it' is out

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that recent Heathrow power outage reminded me of another example of a lack of resilience I mention in my book ...

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🚨 EVENT KLAXON 🚨 Join us on Weds 26 March, in person (at MoJ) or online, and hear from: - Henry Midgley on 'Holding Government to Account: Democracy and the NAO' - Kirsty Innes, Labour Together, on digital ID Sign up: lu.ma/h0ci1zdd Kindly sponsored by dxw

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So great to see this, Karlin Anderson is a fantastic jeweller… and a great custodian of the Shetland dialect too :) www.shetlandtimes.co.uk/2025/03/13/k...

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Good to see this happening, they’re doing a great job in SaxaVord

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some recent thoughts on the latest developments in the UK with digital government / digital transformation … much more detail in the second edition of my book “Fracture”, obvs, when it’s published (in full colour) hopefully by Easter :) ntouk.wordpress.com/2025/02/20/d...

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Inspiring 'Life-changing' gene therapy for children born blind

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Conspirators’ Corner seems like the perfect place to sit in the pub :)

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Some insights from Computer Weekly into the UK’s latest plans for “digital identity” (… Part 94)

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The first proof of the second edition of Fracture has arrived … lots of work still to do!

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I've been sourcing additional content and updating my book "Fracture" in preparation for its Second Edition. I recently found this slide from 2000 describing how the best teams were working in Whitehall back then—very similar to the recent discussion about the role and value of 'test-and-learn'.

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