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@DMossEsq Love the variety in yr blogs
@gdsteam & @G_Cloud_UK have gone from waste of time & money to Russian takeover cant wait for aliens
– Chris Chant

What a load of nonsense!
– Anonymous

@DMossEsq @skyscapecloud @cantwaitogo @tim_hanley @G_Cloud_UK @GuardTime why is cloud any less secure than a server sitting under a desk?
– Roland Moore-Colyer
"Thoroughly researched"
"Highly influential"
These are just some of the comments not made about his article Council IT teams overstating cloud security concerns

@DMossEsq : well, for the astrology jibe for questioning your blind faith in randomness, I'll predict you're a prick right now ;-)
– Simon Wardley, startup strategist
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@DMossEsq I work in an agile team on a government project. Either help us improve things, or shut up. /cc @MTBracken
– Chris Atherton, user interface specialist at the Home Office
Also @DMossEsq Sorry, I'm too busy trying to make government digital services work to roll in the mud.
(Turns out to have been a contractor for 21 months to December 2014 working on GDS's visa application exemplar service that couldn't handle bulk applications)

@DMossEsq @1jh @gdsteam http://t.co/y7Mh57tRu7
– Michael Allen, developer at Kainos, the experts behind GDS's DEFRA success, see also here & here & here & here

@DMossEsq @usnistgov @GOVUKverify @JanetHughes quit trolling dude. Not helping anyone
– Reema Mehta, formerly @GOVUK @gdsteam

What have you done for people @DMossEsq?
– Peter Chamberlin
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They said it first:

The relentless growth in size and functions of the Department of State and the relatively high level in calibre of those who staff them, coupled with the steady decline in importance of and function of MPs, has led to a gradual transfer of power and influence from the floor of the House of Commons to the private rooms of permanent civil servants.

GW Keeton, 1952, The Passing of Parliament

Hat tip: SDG

I breakfasted at Mr. Falconer's well, and much pleased with my inquiries. Thence to the dock, where we walked in Mr. Shelden's garden, eating more fruit, and drinking, and eating figs, which were very good, and talking while the Royal James was bringing towards the dock, and then we went out and saw the manner and trouble of docking such a ship, which yet they could not do, but only brought her head into the Dock, and so shored her up till next tide. But, good God! what a deal of company was there from both yards to help to do it, when half the company would have done it as well. But I see it is impossible for the King to have things done as cheap as other men.

Samuel Pepys, 21 July 1662

Hat tip: Lewis Page, ElReg

Housewives as a whole cannot be trusted to buy all the right things, where nutrition and health are concerned. This is really no more than an extension of the principle according to which the housewife herself would not trust a child of four to select the week’s purchases. For in the case of nutrition and health, just as in the case of education, the gentleman in Whitehall really does know better what is good for people than the people know themselves.

Douglas Jay, 1937, The Socialist Case

Hat tip: GW Keeton

... civil servants have years of experience, jobs for life, and a budget of hundreds of billions of pounds, while ministers have, usually, little or no experience of the job and could be kicked out tomorrow. After researching and writing 44 episodes and a play, I find government much easier to understand by looking at ministers as public relations consultants to the real government – which is, of course, the Civil Service.

Antony Jay, 2 January 2013

His [Steve Hilton's] hour-long class on “How to make change happen in government” offers a startling insight into the frustration of Cameron’s inner circle at its own impotence in the face of the formidable Whitehall machine.

Steve Hilton, 13 January 2013

Those who optimistically believe they are breaking new ground by improving the online experience are often merely tracing footprints on a path already much trodden, reinventing and rediscovering anew the same things – from a common website to cross-government platforms. The result has been several generations of faster horses.

Jerry Fishenden, 14 March 2016

Soap opera

As time goes by
Pick 'n' mix
The adventures of Marsham Towers
The Marsham St Book of Festive Yuletide Carols – I
The Marsham St Book of Festive Yuletide Carols – II
The wisdom of civil servants
Whitehall in control

Whitehall

A risk assessment for prospective suppliers to the UK NIS
A short history of government digital strategies
Fit for purpose? Or bordering on the ridiculous?
Freedom of information
Government deficit and debt under the Maastricht Treaty - Calendar Year 2011
How much of the EU's data will the UK lose?
Identity card technologies: scientific advice, risk and evidence
Identity Documents Bill
In a fantasy league of their own
Institute for Government
OBR – March 2014
Project STORK
Propiska
Public Spending Statistics July 2012
PublicService.co.uk
Red Book 2011-12
Red Book 2012-13
Red Book 2013-14
Red Book 2014-15
Red Book 2015-16
Red Book 2016-17
Red Book 2018
Red Book 2019 (Spending Round)
Red Book 2020
Red Book 2021
Red Book 2022 (Autumn Statement)
Red Book 2023
Securing the UK border
Shut half of Whitehall and save billions, says Dominic Raab
Sir Jeremy Heywood is the man who really runs the country
Sue Cameron
Teflon civil servants who never feel the heat
The many are losing the unequal struggle
The most potent, permanent and elusive figure in British politics
The natural price of a ten-year adult passport in the UK is £23. It actually costs £77.50. Why?
The Register® (public sector)
Transformational Government -- Enabled by Technology
Tulipmania and the Home Office
Whitehall -- red light district (Ev w7)
Who's who
With their head in the clouds
Worst civil servants to be sacked

Misfeasance in public office

Elements of misfeasance in public office
Misfeasance in Public Office (Dover District Council)
Misfeasance in public office (Wikipedia)
The 300-year-old beginnings of Byers' day in court

Westminster

Erskine May
Her Majesty's government
List of MPs

Biometrics

Biometrics -- IPS, the Flat Earth Society and transformational cosmology
Biometrics: guilty until proven innocent
Entitlement cards and identity fraud
Facing a biometric future
Feasibility study on the use of biometrics in an entitlement scheme
FRVT2006
Fundamental issues in biometric performance testing: A modern statistical and philosophical framework for uncertainty assessment
How UIDAI goofed up pilot test results to press forward with UID scheme
India boldly takes biometrics where no country has gone before
India's ID card scheme – drowning in a sea of false positives
Moneylife: UID/Aadhaar
Not working in the UK
Palm Vein Scans to Replace Fingerprints at GMAT Test Centers
Planet Biometrics
Role of Biometric Technology in Aadhaar Enrollment
The Gallic sense of humour
The genealogy of a biometrics company
The Home Office Scientific Development Branch (HOSDB)
There are many hopes for biometrics (but apart from the wishful thinking, not a lot else)
Throwing the towel in
UID Enrolment Proof-of-Concept Report
UK Passport Service biometrics enrolment trial
World renowned academicians say level of uncertainty in biometrics is too high and UID tests prove nothing

Mobile phones

Industrial espionage -- mobile phones
Mobile phones are today's ID cards
Phones talk
Why do you keep robbing banks?

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