Find, sign or create petitions calling for the UK Parliament or UK Government to act

In this post, I explore how to progressively enhance interactive maps for UK government services, with accessible,...

The Fens, source of a third of England’s vegetables, faces rising floods, drought and heat as climate risks collide.

Making Things Open, Makes Things Better A practical guide to working in the open, for people, teams and departments new to it Written with Ai assistance. Précis "Make things open: it makes things bet...

One of the (many) things that makes me feel like a dinosaur at work is my stubborn commitment to the principle of ‘make things open, it makes things better’. I mean I literally had it tattooed on m…

Trees are nature’s air conditioning – cooling streets by up to 5°C, cutting heat risks, and helping cities withstand hotter summers

Larger vehicles crowd our roads and are far more dangerous to pedestrians. Let’s curb them before they do even more damage, says says transport commentator Christian Wolmar

Xlinks wants to build a Devon data campus but is facing opposition from residents.

Find a People's Emergency Briefing screening near you, or spot a gap that you can fill by hosting a screening.

National Emergency Briefing | The UK’s leading climate and nature experts brief MP's on the risks, impacts and solutions to the climate emergency

A follow-up on my JD Sports accessibility job role post, and what happened next.

How can progressive voters vote tactically to minimise the swing to the right in English politics, in a confusing five-way contest?

Frankie and Ananda explain why the NHS design system is not just for public-facing    services, with an overview of recent changes to meet the needs of staff-facing services. There’s also mo...

A new initiative to secure the world’s most critical software and give defenders a durable advantage in the coming AI-driven era of cybersecurity.

Weeknotes Friday 20 March 2026 Weeknotes break Gov mission Ai experiments Bookmarks - to refer back to Weeknotes break No weeknotes since mid December, and the last one wasn't finished, and it was g...

Practical AI, proper community On Saturday I was at Bradford Live for the joyous and celebratory Gorillaz gig, my first time in that building in something like thirty years. On Tuesday I was back, th...

Exclusive: finding out who owns land will become simpler under plans to make the best use of green spaces and hit net zero targets

The Postcode Address File is far from the only problem.

Mark Carney nails it. We have to "stop pretending"

Weeknotes Friday 28 November Gov mission Recruitment Bookmarks - no new ones Short week again. life stuff, on that… Just finished a major life event. Almost all done on my phone! Native digita...

Weeknotes Friday 21 November Gov mission Recruitment Bookmarks - refer back to these Short week, didn’t work Mon and Tue - well i did on Tue pm for 3 hours but that was after diving across the co...

The interaction design book that explains why chatbots tend to suck

Weeknotes Friday 14 November Gov mission Recruitment Last weeks weeknotes Bookmarks - refer back to these Gov mission work The service(s) I'm working on that I can't name until the legislation go...

Weeknotes Friday 7 November Gov mission AI experimentatoon playback Other useful things done Bookmarks - refer back to these Gov mission work The service(s) I'm working on that I can't name until t...

Weeknotes Friday 31 October Gov mission Conceptual services Job advert Other useful things done Bookmarks - refer back to these Gov mission work Busy week, not much progress on the design of the ser...

Weeknotes Friday 24 October Gov mission Conceptual services AI Many other useful things done Bookmarks - refer back to these Gov mission work Conceptual Data model - version 2 complete. Checked and ...

Weeknotes Friday 10 October Gov mission Platformland and conceptual services Many other useful things done Bookmarks - refer back to these Introduction Short week again. Speed awareness course on...

Weeknotes Friday 10 October Directorate away day Gov mission Other important things Bookmarks - refer back to these Introduction Short week in many ways, an away day in Sheffield meant a full day...

Weeknotes Friday 26 September Map component for prototype kit Gov mission Bookmarks - refer back to these Map component for gov.uk prototype kit More noodling with ChatGPT and Claude.Ai assistance t...

The charity platform made the payment to the Nasdaq-listed Blackbaud after revenues rose by 9.7 per cent to £64.5m

Weeknotes Friday 26 September Map component for prototype kit Efficient land registration Gov mission Bookmarks - refer back to these Map component for gov.uk prototype kit I'm not a coder! Well I ...

Introduction to service design in Government: remote training course (£600 ex VAT) - Sept 2025 – Zoom, Thu 25 Sep 2025 - Fri 3 Oct 2025 - Where: Online, on Zoom This is an introductory course into ser...

Weeknotes Friday 19 September DDaT Capability pay framework Gov mission Bookmarks - refer back to these Intro Sick. Bad cold. Sure I picked it up travelling for work last week as started to feel i...

Weeknotes Friday 12 September Conceptual services Gov mission Miscellaneous… Bookmarks - refer back to these Intro This weeks and last weeks, I've made the weeknote available while I'm writing it. ...