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WRITTEN ON Tuesday, October 27th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Uncategorized
High time someone asked this sort of question: speaker:Oliver Letwin : 1 Written Answer ======================================== Written Answers – Treasury: Revenue and Customs: Telephone Services (26 Oct 2009) http://www.theyworkforyou.com/wrans/?id=2009-10-26a.295035.h&s=speaker%3A10355#g295035.q0 Oliver Letwin: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) accrued revenue in the last three months from callers to HMRC 08 […]
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WRITTEN ON Sunday, September 27th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Uncategorized
It’s time to wind this thing down. The Guardian owns and pays for this site and domain, and has decided the blog has run its course, which is entirely their prerogative and fair enough. They’ve been great for the last two years. We’ve got, I think, a final four weeks before it closes end October. […]
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WRITTEN ON Friday, September 18th, 2009 BY David Moss AND STORED IN Uncategorized
The Independent Safeguarding Authority are meant to help to protect children and vulnerable adults from abuse. How? According to a document leaked to Josie Appleton, reported in The Register, as follows: … the ISA has decided to put in place a scoring system to be filled in by its army of trained bureaucrats. Items will […]
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WRITTEN ON Thursday, September 17th, 2009 BY David Moss AND STORED IN Uncategorized
Only 13 short months ago, we were all enjoying our little adult evening class in social psychology and behavioural economics. You remember – anchoring, framing, cognitive dissonance, … Maybe you don’t remember. But just because you’ve forgotten, doesn’t mean it’s gone away. There it was on the steam radio this week, with Daniel Finkelstein explaining […]
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WRITTEN ON Wednesday, August 19th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Uncategorized
John Suffolk has a post on PCs and security – quite fun. And I managed to comment on it without any trouble this time, which is a relief: Plain fact is people have powerful PCs and Macs and phones and access to the Internet and do loads of stuff with it. So I’d question your […]
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WRITTEN ON Friday, August 7th, 2009 BY David Moss AND STORED IN Uncategorized
Swiss official warns approval of new US tax treaty unlikely absent UBS deal Switzerland’s Parliament is not expected to approve a tax treaty with the US, which incorporates OECD standards of tax information exchange, unless the US litigation against the Swiss bank, UBS, is resolved. The Swiss Government hopes that an extra-judicial settlement will be […]
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WRITTEN ON Monday, July 27th, 2009 BY Paul Smith AND STORED IN Uncategorized
WIBBI that all websites (not just those in the public sector) got reports like this one on IT Director. Well done to Brent … which of course has been winning website awards for some years (best local council website in 1999!). UPDATE Sadly the rather radical approach taken by David Wilde and his colleagues at […]
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WRITTEN ON Friday, May 8th, 2009 BY Paul Smith AND STORED IN Uncategorized
The 18million-views-a-month, all singing government portal – direct.gov.uk – has launched an RSS feed on swine flu . All jolly good stuff of course but there are a couple of “buts”. First that there’s something very wrong when the press release quotes Jayne Nickalls, Directgov CEO as saying “we carry regular updates and information relating […]
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WRITTEN ON Wednesday, May 6th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Uncategorized
While private companies will clearly benefit from the increased footfall from offering this service, their customers will benefit from being able to quickly provide their biometrics while they are out doing their shopping. Ah yes. Quite. Er, how exactly?
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WRITTEN ON Monday, May 4th, 2009 BY Sir Bonar Neville-Kingdom GCMG KCVO AND STORED IN Uncategorized
Sir Bonar writes from his home (where he remains on gardening leave in the wake of the unfortunate and still unresolved Arabic-themed nightclub incident): It has been a good year for the fritilleries, and a wonderful one for violets, cowslips and our beloved euphorbias. But even while on gardening leave one is able to make […]
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