Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where my editor David Swanson and I slip messily through Wikipedia’s List of Notable Sandwiches. This week,...

Counter-terror leaders reveal the tactics Russia is using to sow division in the UK

Reform UK’s Zia Yusuf is set to speak tomorrow at the Heritage Foundation, the group behind the “extreme” ‘Project 2025’ playbook for Donald Trump’s second term. Yusuf, Reform’s home affairs spokesper...

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By Naomi Smith

By replacing a failing legacy system with a working car tax service in just ten weeks, we proved that momentum and iterative delivery manage risk far more effectively than months of traditional planni...

The government said its in-house IT system was

AS A new poetry co-editor on the Morning Star, I’m interested in poems that examine the personal and the political in a way that engages the emotions as well as the logical mind. There are several wor...

Britain is no longer behaving like a two-party country. What if the answer to our woes (and Keir's) was citizen-led electoral reform?

The NHS is preparing to close nearly all of its Open Source repositories. Throughout my time working for the UK Government - in GDS, NHSX, i.AI, and others - I championed Open Source. I spoke to dozens of departments about it, wrote guidance still in use today, and briefed Ministers on why it was so important. That's why I'm beyond disappointed at recent moves from NHS England to backtrack on…

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