Come on United 👏🏽 - Great way to end my birthday, which started by having a nice brunch at Farm Girl opposite the Natural History Museum.

Just started Ghost of Yōtei and i’m blown away by the visuals.

The final of the African Nations Cup has descended in to total anarchy. Senegal are walking off the pitch?! Ref has made two appalling decisions but this is poor!

I couldn’t make it to #ukgc26 but I’ll be following along on here. Look forward to hearing all about it 👍

About to take the new bullet train from Mecca to Medina. There is a Subway at the station, which is a pleasant surprise. Love a tuna melt!

Absolutely exhausted after completing Umrah but it’s indescribable how I felt to see the Kaaba in person for the first time. Reading about it and seeing it on TV doesn’t really compare when you see the whole place, scale of people and the pilgrimage itself.

Going to Mecca with my family tomorrow iA. I can’t even comprehend how it’s going to feel to see the 🕋 for the first time 🤲🏼

This has taken me almost 2 months to build from scratch. An hour here and here around work and life. But I can say I finished it in 2025…just!

It was arctic but a nice Christmas evening out. Hope everyone had a lovely day!

It’s time for the annual Alan Rickman Christmas movie marathon with Love Actually + Die Hard

Nothing like a bit of end of year DIY.

Is there a better way to start a month off work?

Why is every single app/website/thing doing these 2025 wrap ups?! 😭

What a match! No defending just vibes. Some wonderful strikes as well. Pure Barclays.

This was delicious earlier today

In 2026 we are reinstating the regular One Team Gov breakfast club in London and also running a virtual one for anybody who doesn't have a meetup near them. If you're interested you can sign up for both using the link (and please retweet/skeet!) www.linkedin.com/posts/onetea...

Trying out some new beans today. Northern Cobbler from Leicester.

“Burnout isn’t a sign of commitment, it’s a sign of organisational failure. If your best people are exhausted, withdrawn, or like shadows of who they once were, that’s not a resource problem. That’s a You problem.” www.ithoughtaboutthatalot.com/2025/the-thi...

Anyone have any insight in to how Green Book cases are evaluated?

I’m pretty sure those nursery rhymes and white noise sounds to put a toddler to sleep has influenced this.

Reading spreadsheets at 5pm 🥱

Great news! LAs run the services people touch every day. When these services work well, they're invisible. When they don't, residents feel it immediately. There are genuine opportunities where collaborative working and technology could make a meaningful difference. www.gov.uk/guidance/gds...

I wasn’t prepared for snow

What an unbelievable goal. Wild, wild match! Brazil vs Scotland in 1998 is pretty much the first world cup game I can remember watching. Will be great to see them back in 👏

I always wondered who still watches Eastenders and then I just watched The Feud on Netflix - Which is a drama about…Planning Permission. About as mundane as TV gets. But here I am on episode 2.

Here’s one I made earlier

I’m on the lookout for a new contract (preferably inside). I’ve got over a decade of experience working in the public sector, mostly in agile delivery management. Two weeks notice. Not got DMs here but Signal is zuz.1337, or LinkedIn is good. Thx :)

Mamdani celebrating with sountrack to Dhoom is epic

Sunny Sunday

Latte game getting better

At Winkworth Arboretum. It’s stunning!

Potty training accident first thing on a Friday morning 💆🏽‍♂️

It’s become too cold too soon

There's a lot of talk about AI in gov right now. Mostly on productivity tools like Copilot. The broader challenge is embedding AI into public services that impact citizens directly. I wrote about how to create the right conditions for teams to succeed. rummanamin.co.uk/what-conditi...

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I just found out there was a massive DVD type thing called LaserDisc. It’s HUGE!

Had surgery over the weekend to sort out my long-term sinus problems. It has totally sapped my energy 😨

I feel for my grandparents and parents who had to endure some horrific racism when they first came to the UK and now again decades later.👇🏽

A United Nations commission of inquiry says Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza It says there are grounds to conclude that four of five genocidal acts defined under international law have been carried out since the start of the war with Hamas www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Almost a year after we bought this house, the title papers arrived. To my surprise, they included the original handwritten title deeds, mortgage agreement, conveyancing and HM Land Registry documents from 1930 as well as docs from the next owner in 1962.

Alien Earth is cool 👌🏼

Cooking some sea bass on the BBQ 🧑🏼‍🍳🧑🏽‍🍳

One of the biggest hurdles for delivering at pace in gov is Governance. Digital delivery is inherently agile and iterative but our governance models still think in milestones, stage gates, and business cases. I’ve written about how we can shift our approach: www.softwire.com/insights/why...

The Bear is the best thing on TV right? First episode of new season is fire 🔥

One of the biggest hurdles for delivering at pace in gov is Governance. Digital delivery is inherently agile and iterative but our governance models still think in milestones, stage gates, and business cases. I’ve written about how we can shift our approach: www.softwire.com/insights/why...

Real meaningful work by @himal.bsky.social and others to create a better way for people with ADHD to get the support they need

We’ve launched! When I first shared a proposal for a more joined up approach to ADHD care in the UK I wasn’t expecting much. But what happened next surprised me. People stepped forward. To help. To amplify. To create something better. Now we’re a team: ADHD Pathfinding. Proud to be part of it.

I made a website for my father in law’s restaurant years ago. He asked me to update the food ment. It’s been so long since I touched any code that I just realised the Atom code editor installed on my Mac was discontinued by Github in December 2022!

Season 3 of Squid Game is amazing. Equal parts gripping and stressful. I would avoid if you are squeamish about blood of violence. It is graphic.

A proposal for a “Single Front Door” for ADHD. Shaped by my own lived experience, conversations with dozens navigating ADHD journeys and strengthened through generous input from experienced designers, policy thinkers and former civil servants This isn’t just a blog post. It’s a call to action.