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Computer Weekly\'s editor gives a personal perspective on the biggest issues in technology and IT strategy.
Recent Posts
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Trump has won - but he cannot defeat the inevitability of digital change
- Editor in chief 07 Nov 2024 -
Once more it's deja vu all over again in digital government
- Editor in chief 03 Oct 2024 -
Labour and digital government - how's it going so far?
- Editor in chief 19 Sep 2024
After Donald Trump’s first presidential election victory in 2016, I wrote about how the technology sector had contributed to and enabled the controversial reality TV star’s political ascent – you ...
When you write about government IT for as long as Computer Weekly has – which is pretty much as long as “government IT” has been a thing – it’s hard not to get a sense of what can most accurately ...
As the Labour Party shifts focus from Westminster to Liverpool for its first annual conference in charge of the UK government for 15 years, MPs and members will no doubt take time to reflect on ...
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Government needs to meet with the IT users, implementors and managers to deliver its policy aims
- Editor in chief 01 Aug 2024 -
Dear Prime Minister Starmer, here's how technology can help you transform the UK for the better
- Editor in chief 08 Jul 2024 -
General election 2024: Digital threads run through all parties' manifesto commitments
- Editor in chief 14 Jun 2024 -
Post Office inquiry: So, is Paula Vennells lying or not?
- Editor in chief 23 May 2024 -
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt gives the magic technology tree a shake
- Editor in chief 07 Mar 2024 -
Get a grip and pay the subpostmasters
- Editor in chief 01 Mar 2024 -
Post Office scandal: A very good start to what comes next
- Editor in chief 15 Jan 2024
The new Labour administration started its time in government with an Olympian sprint before Parliament broke for the summer recess. Among its many new policies and programmes, we’ve seen a ...
Dear Prime Minister Starmer, Look, I know you have a horrendous in-tray to work through in your new job. The previous incumbent(s) made quite a mess of things. But you – like your predecessors – ...
We’re not yet at the stage where a general election manifesto contains an entire section on digital economy issues, alongside the expected priorities of health, education, defence, housing and so ...
When former Post Office CEO Paula Vennells began her much-anticipated evidence to the public inquiry into the scandal that unfolded on her watch, she turned to the victims and said how grateful she ...
During her ill-fated 2017 general election campaign, prime minister Theresa May told an audience of voters on the BBC that there was no “magic money tree that we can shake to get everything we ...
Last week there were two questions asked in the House of Commons during Prime Minister’s Questions about the Post Office scandal. How refreshing it is to see this finally becoming a regular part of ...
Well, what can we say? Humbly, let’s start with a very big thank you to Little Gem, the TV production company that created Mr Bates vs the Post Office, and to ITV for broadcasting the drama at ...
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The Post Office Scandal: When culture ate the law for breakfast
- Editor in chief 13 Dec 2023 -
Was the devil's greatest trick making you think tech CEOs are just people?
- Editor in chief 24 Nov 2023 -
The great AI threat, or not...
- Editor in chief 06 Nov 2023 -
Continued disclosure failures by Post Office show contempt for Horizon victims
- Editor in chief 12 Jul 2023 -
UK government's 'tech superpower' ambitions must be matched by realism and collaboration
- Editor in chief 17 Mar 2023
Famously, “culture eats strategy for breakfast,” according to management guru Peter Drucker. What should we make, then, of the culture at the Post Office when it was prosecuting innocent people ...
It’s been one of those weeks where tech makes headlines for all the wrong reasons. (Sadly, the wrong reasons are often the only reasons tech makes national headlines, but anyway…) There was much ...
Depending on who you talk to, Rishi Sunak's much-hyped AI Safety Summit was an act of extreme hubris by the UK government, a wasted opportunity, or a historic milestone in the development of ...
What are we to assume from the latest developments in the public inquiry into the Post Office scandal? Let’s lay out the facts... The inquiry was this week forced to postpone scheduled hearings ...
Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt went for it in a big way in his Budget speech this week. Fewer than 400 words were spoken, barely three minutes completed, before we got to cross off the ...