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Richard Pope @richardpope.org · 29/09/2026

The Nuffield Family Observatory email a ‘Chart of The Month’, which I think is a nice, slow, passive way to consume data visualisations. This month’s chat shows that kids entering the care system are increasingly likely to ... richardpope.org/2026/09/29/the-nuff…

Chart showing breakdown of boys vs girls entering care system currently 61% boys, 31% girls

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Richard Pope @richardpope.org · 24/09/2026

This looks like it should be a poster in the backdrop of a scuzzy sci-fi dystopia. (from Canary Wharf).

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Richard Pope @richardpope.org · 23/06/2026

Platformlanding with DEFRA and e-synergy today

Screen showing direction to Defra Platformland workshop

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Richard Pope @richardpope.org · 16/06/2026

Published today with @kinship.works NHS Operating Patterns - Ways to do good work together, in a decentralised system

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Richard Pope @richardpope.org · 28/04/2026

Given generative AI is all about predicting next words, when do I get a better spell check!? (I regularly have to Google words because my dyslexia induced misspellings are so bad my computer just shrugs).

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Richard Pope @richardpope.org · 26/03/2026

At the British Academy for a day long policy lab Noted on the way in: the dedicated Champaign cork recycling box

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Richard Pope @richardpope.org · 10/03/2026

In the search for calm things to play while kids are having breakfast, I stumbled across David Bowie doing Peter and the Wolf: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Bowie_N… It’s mostly very Jackanory,... richardpope.org/2026/03/10/in-the-s…

Almbun cover for David Bowie and Peter and the Wolf

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Richard Pope @richardpope.org · 09/02/2026

But what can we do to bridge the cultural divide of our time?

British gardening community next to the uk digital gov community

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Richard Pope @richardpope.org · 28/01/2026

Confirmation from Apple that they have, somehow, despite being quite good at creating software, apparently created a system unable to create VAT invoices for AppStore purchases that include a company name. The best they do is m... richardpope.org/2026/01/28/confirma…

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Richard Pope @richardpope.org · 27/01/2026

I saw House Above The Sun. Lovely sound and stage presencence. Would definitly recommend.

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Richard Pope @richardpope.org · 26/01/2026

Nothing that there are a couple of weeks left for people to apply for a digital job that could be make or break for the NHS Director General for Technology, Digital and Data Department of Health and Social Care Here’s a screenshot as I’m pretty sure no one clicks past the ‘I’m not a robot’ page.

screenshot of the job page on civil service jobs

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Richard Pope @richardpope.org · 18/12/2025

I read it goes something like this...

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Richard Pope @richardpope.org · 17/12/2025

Using ChatGPT to write an Obsidian addon and had to tell it to rewrite the code to 00’s era javascript so I could understand / edit it.

Sure — here’s the same logic, rewritten in a more old-school, explicit, block-structured JavaScript style:&10; • no arrow functions&10; • no one-line if statements&10; • no ??&10; • no spread syntax&10; • clearer variable naming&10; • everything bracketed and stepped through&10;&10;Nothing functionally changes.

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Richard Pope @richardpope.org · 29/11/2025

From this weeks Beno. I’m sure it will be a useful metaphor for something at some point.

Comic strip from the Benonshowing Musk and Bezoa shooting footballs out of cannon and saying "don't let them past Jeff, we need the space"

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Richard Pope @richardpope.org · 20/11/2025

Musing on what’s different about digital bookings

Digital bookings are social objects - diagram shows booking enabling things like transcription and checking codes&10;&10;Digital bookings extend relationships over time - diagram shows two timelines one activities spread over time

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Richard Pope @richardpope.org · 01/11/2025

First visit in years to the common land where I grew up. Hard to describe quite how much it is a part of me. The colour of the sand, the details of the small handful of types of plants that grow there are beyond familiar. Recognising individual trees from 40 years ago everywhere. Cheesy but true.

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Richard Pope @richardpope.org · 06/10/2025

Sketching interfaces, riffing off Berg's Here & There

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Richard Pope @richardpope.org · 21/08/2025

Scouts, skills for life! (volcano related parenting injury)

Rope handle for walking stic. Blue deck chairs in background

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Richard Pope @richardpope.org · 19/06/2025

In Prague for a packed Creative Bureaucracy Festival

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Richard Pope @richardpope.org · 03/06/2025

Something something consistent branding

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Richard Pope @richardpope.org · 03/06/2025

Very belatedly passed my driving test 30 years later than I could have. 3 minor faults. Undue interest in the GOV.UK design system based form used by the examiner did not seem to count against me.

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Richard Pope @richardpope.org · 05/05/2025

A month later than intended, but here we go...

Milton Keynes marathon bib number. 2203.

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Richard Pope @richardpope.org · 27/03/2025

St Clements and Mary le Bow both with strong cherry blossom today 🍊🍋🔔

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Richard Pope @richardpope.org · 25/03/2025

Spotted on the floor of Westminster Hall earlier, a reminder that the US constitution is a fork of 17c England

This Tablet marks, with as much accuracy as can be attained the place where Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford, stood in this hall during the impeachment for High Treason brought against him before the House of Lords, upon the accusation of the House of Common

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Richard Pope @richardpope.org · 24/03/2025

Back at the old office for the day

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Richard Pope @richardpope.org · 21/02/2025

I'd really like to read an assessment of US situation against Bingham's eight rule of law principles

Screenshot of text:

He went on to publish The Rule of Law (2010), a popular book that won the Orwell Prize. In it, he set out eight principles of the Rule of Law:

(1) The law must be accessible and so far as possible intelligible, clear and predictable.
(2) Questions of legal right and liability should ordinarily be resolved by application of the law and not the exercise of discretion.
(3) The laws of the land should apply equally to all, save to the extent that objective differences justify differentiation.
(4) Ministers and public officers at all levels must exercise the powers conferred on them in good faith, fairly, for the purpose for which the powers were conferred, without exceeding the limits of such powers and not unreasonably.
(5) The law must afford adequate protection of fundamental human rights.
(6) Means must be provided for resolving, without prohibitive cost or inordinate delay, bona fide civil disputes which the parties themselves are unable to resolve.
(7) The adjudicative procedures provided by the state should be fair.
(8) The rule of law requires compliance by the state with its obligations in international law as in national law.
Lord Bingham's book is now also available as an Audiobook.

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Richard Pope @richardpope.org · 19/02/2025

In east London to get a new passport which will no longer say 'European Community'. Also walked past this.

Large video screen on walkway to Excel Centre advertising the ARC conference.

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Richard Pope @richardpope.org · 16/02/2025

Hampton Court half marathon ✔️

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Richard Pope @richardpope.org · 30/01/2025

If the gov design community were looking for a test case for applying design principles to a physical space I'd like to recommend dvsa test centres

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Richard Pope @richardpope.org · 19/12/2024

Made my local running club some 3D printed Christmas decorations of our regular Strava routes because who doesn't love the whimsical breakdown of the barriers between the physical and digital worlds

An orange printed Strava route on a real Christmas tree with a crocheted bunny in the background

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Richard Pope @richardpope.org · 10/12/2024

Hey little robot. I wonder what your lidar sees.

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Richard Pope @richardpope.org · 10/12/2024

I'm not religious, but I can't walk past St Magnus the Martyr without a peak inside. Portal to another time. High church smells, dark and (Wikipedia just told me) has the only cardinal in the CofE. I hope they put the bridge back one day.