Whoops, on holiday so forgot to post this. Two great jobs as head of delivery for CPS, one profession, one programme. Multiple locations England and Wales, relaxed hybrid working, lots of great stuff to do. www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi...

Have just amazed my family and friends with this picture of AN UMBRELLA DRYER in the lobby of the Manchester office.

Sometimes a service design mindset is not helping when all you really need to do is surrender to the ‘recruitment form which is slightly but critically different from the process in your last four departments’ But on the positive side: we are hiring 2 x g6 delivery managers, ads out v soon

- Why did this civilisation collapse? - Some of its finest minds were driven to madness by endless evenings refreshing websites to book their children's after-school activities. - But why did they not simply have websites that worked? - No one knows. Scholars differ.

Come and join our growing team at CPS. We’re seeking an experienced head of product to lead and grow our product team and profession. We work in dozens of locations in England and Wales and have a very flexible, fully hybrid approach. www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/index.cg...

Soft launch when everyone is distracted recovering from the England game...Product for the People is back on the 3rd September in Bristol. Less unconference-y this time - more corridor conference-y with three brilliant speakers and some lightly facilitated conversations. luma.com/rjsq2i36

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'Product for the People' returns to Bristol! An event for people interested in public service and product management (not just product managers in public…

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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 GovCamp Scotland Information and ticket details for #GovCamp #Scotland - a participant-driven event for those working in the #PublicSector, #LocalAuthority and third sector organisations. ℹ️ www.govcamp.scot 📆 Monday 21 September 2026 📍 #Edinburgh Futures Institute 🎟️ www.govcamp.scot/tickets

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Join GovCamp Scotland 2025 for a collaborative unconference focused on improving public services through sharing and participation.

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New prime ministers are required to give secret orders to Britain's nuclear submarines, to be opened in the event a nuclear strike destroys the British government. Of the four traditional options, whi...

New prime ministers are required to give secret orders to Britain's nuclear submarines, to be opened in the event a nuclear strike destroys the British government. Of the four traditional options, whi...

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Hiring - lovely job working with the fabulous Kate Ivey Williams and leading lights of gov design. Dozens of England and Wales locations, committed to flexible, relaxed hybrid working. Come and help our UCD practice grow even bigger and better www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi...

North London is hideous. I don’t remember Man U paralysing the whole of Manchester’s public transport when we won the treble

Everyone in the house except me has a fan. God damn middle aged altruism

How good are these? And yes, they are toast-its! I am disproportionately happy

In my career I have organised stuff involving PMs, celebs and royalty, in remote prisons and in freezing car parks with vehicles too large to travel on public roads. none of this compares to trying to corral 15 groups of y7 parents to one campsite

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UK saves 'millions' of pounds by ditching Palantir for refugee system

The government said its in-house IT system was

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Very pleased to see Ted Crilly as dummy account owner in a prototype today. It’s the small things

Two weeks in at the Crown Prosecution Service. Great people, proper mission, great design led thinking. Oh and this is the view from the kitchen…We are going to be hiring a lot of people in the coming months, starting with senior product and delivery roles.

on a hotel balcony drinking cold beer from which I can ‘actually see into’ Pompeii ruins. 5th? time here and it never gets less exciting. my family are mostly very nicely tolerant ‘look guys, it’s only a 45m walk to the villa dei mysteri!’

Naples tube stations are nearly as good as the Pompeii mosaics

why do female Olympic athletes who do international standard ice dancing have to do it in their pants? Didn’t we get over this a while back with the beach volleyball thing?

Wow, so they actually bothered to replatform civil service pensions into a service which ‘doesn’t actually tell you how much your pension is’. love to see the early user stories version for this and the rag-rated critical path to go live.

Come and help us ensure the NHS has the best digital tools available to support the frontline to deliver integrated care and meet the ever evolving needs of the NHS. Details of our Head #ServiceOwner vacancy here www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jo... #Jobs

Fancy a change? Seeking air traffic control for DHSC digital projects - small to large, mostly national not NHS-facing. Open to all flavours of ddat specialists. flexible, diverse team based in London and Leeds. Talk to me, or to one of the team. www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/index.cg...

This is amazing! How did I not see this before!

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“Everything shareable across government in one place – to support the delivery of digital services” @nikolagoger.bsky.social sharing their cross-gov Reuse Library work at #SDinGov: reuselibrary-dev.apps.cloud-platform.service.justice.gov.uk

Mojo thoroughly back via #SDingov. Great couple of days with inspiration from new voices, old lags and colleagues past and present. Oh, and a magician.

I’m confused. Why did far right protestors circle the IMAX? What has the imax ever done to them, etc..

I did not expect my morning to involve getting caught up with a load of far right protestors at Euston. People marching through the tube station using megaphones to sing Tommy Robinson songs, clearly intimidating staff, and me. not sure where the transport police are..

Fancy a change? Seeking air traffic control for DHSC digital projects - small to large, mostly national not NHS-facing. Open to all flavours of ddat specialists. flexible, diverse team based in London and Leeds. Talk to me, or to one of the team. www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/index.cg...

Austria rocks but Verona has actual gladiator mosaics

Less than a week away interrailing feels like about three. Space time continuum truly disturbed

I am so brain dead with Covid that last night when The Last of Us finished and auto-played a different programme straight after, I didn’t notice for 20 mins. Thought it was some sort of crazy epilogue.