Open Government

While studying history at school – the origins of the Industrial Revolution, the rise and fall of Rome – I used to contemplate what it would be like to live Read more

Like most people I was shocked to discover that Sir Paul Stephenson had dinner with News International Executives during the first phone hacking scandal. I was also surprised to learn Read more

Like so many people, I’ve been discussing the impact of the closure of the News of the World, the actions of the journalists and other newspapers and news outlets that Read more

Tim Montgomerie believes that if Cameron did fewer speeches they would become ‘events’ thus have more impact. (For what it’s worth I agree with Tim.)  This got me thinking: “what Read more

I recently wrote about the potential for crowd-sourcing as a useful and productive way for the government to engage further with voters.  I’ve also recently suggested that a corollary for Read more

All truth passes through three stages, said the philosopher Schopenhauer. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. Just over a week Read more

Whitehall’s plans to outsource public services are going to be ‘scaled back’. That is James Landale’s interpretation of a leaked document. A Cabinet Spokesman counters by saying that said document Read more

Rhetoric is important. David Cameron, Steve Hilton and the movers behind the Big Society project must be given full credit for championing what is an extremely difficult concept to sell Read more

This Tuesday (15th March) the Public Administration Select Committee (PASC) held its second evidence session as part of it’s Inquiry into the Government’s use of IT. It is beginning to Read more

There’s a report today of a legislative change to allow candidates to stand for two parties.  While it’s ostensibly to make it easier for Labour-Co-op candidates (who seem to manage fine Read more