The Inquiry uploaded a *lot* of new documents over the past few months. I’ve finally gone through and added all 11,757 of them to postofficeinquiry.dracos.co.uk for all your searching needs

Designing forms like this is thoughtless and careless. First year undergrad designers know not to do this. Are we to assume you, the company, haven't bothered to hire designers, or just that you've chosen to ignore them?

this is good because you really don’t hear a lot about the history of Manchester United these days

Make Casablanca less topical again

As a user, I want to do things that align with the goal of your business and make use of the tools and methods created as result of your company's strategy and tactics.

"Beckham at Davos!" "Er, elephant photos at Tenagra"

Evergreen post.

One of my favourite this-crazy-thing-happened-to-a-guy-i-know stories is this post: lostbyway.com/a-narrow-esc... Tldr: punctures. Alligators.

Apart from my usual wedding speech services I’m also offering a ChatGPT Speech Fix for people who’ve gone to AI and are disappointed with the outcome. All the details are available on my recently updated website www.mathew-owen.co.uk/ai-speech-fix - thank you for reading, and please do share 👍

@ukgovcamp.com a gentle nudge to campers travelling from London: these travel problems are what colleagues in the regions face whenever called to meetings or office days in London. This is a great chance to understand their pain, and consider meeting start/finish times etc in future ! 😉 #ukgc26

If it's your first time at #ukgc26 and it's a bit overwhelming, I'm Ian, come and say hello, I'm the old beardy guy that's not @jukes.ie 😁

...and we're off 🙂 #ukgc26

I’ve headed to St Pancras and going via Leicester instead. #ukgc26

PSA for those heading from London to Birmingham for @ukgovcamp.com - all trains from Euston currently cancelled, head to St Pancras and change at Leicester... #govcamp

It's #GovCamp day, it's #GovCamp day, it's g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-GovCamp day! Big love to everyone dealing with Euston Nonsense especially. Good day ahead!

Do the ad company know that, whatever the merits of Project Hail Mary, selling it by using Champagne Supernova as your Big Portentous Recognisable Pop Song bed music is...not quite the vibe they're looking for?

I was in a meeting and missed the outage. Was there an image of the fail whale in a bikini?

Travel for GovCamp setup is always an exciting journey; running in to @imhuyorks.bsky.social on the train is the cherry on the cake. And we're doing it in my home city, too. #GovCamp26 #yesbab

Ooh this is up there with Wombat Laughter Another and "as the crowf lies" The "lad" is @kermodemovie.bsky.social, is what I'm saying

Technical design *is* business process design *is* team design *is* service design *is* user centred design. If you insist that one is superior to another or that you don’t need to concern yourself with all aspects, you’re doing your organisation and your users a disservice. This course looks great!

It takes #GovCamp26 to get me to reinstall social media, but it's lovely to see everyone again. You're all well worth being back on the ol' anxiety-pump.

No you read this and then spent the next 5 mins mucking around with a shit bit of Javascript to test the idea out

You can't even bat two-handed these days. Because of Woakes.

Glorious.

UKGovCamp 2026 ( #ukgc26 ) will be in #Birmingham on Saturday 17 January 2026. We need a venue: 1️⃣ for 250 people, 2️⃣ 8 breakout rooms, 3️⃣ wheelchair accessible. @imhuyorks.bsky.social is leading the search. Please share and reply with ideas 🙂

📣 We’d like to hear from you! Bluesky is rolling out age verification as part of the Online Safety Act, which aims to reduce the risk of children seeing harmful content. We’ve heard that blind and partially sighted folks are unable to verify their age because it’s inaccessible. Have you tried?

It is no bad thing for government to get better at storytelling and that those messages should land 'where people are'. But as (more?) important is government actually being 'where people are'. And that isn't necessarily in your pocket. Resharing my (5 part) long read about GOTHS.

Yet agayne ignored by the Booker Pryze longlist

Apropos of nothing specific. The idea that you would immigrate - even to a country where you might some day claim benefits - to profit from the public purse, is as mad as the idea that you would fly long-haul to get free chips. It is SO expensive.

DAME HANNAH HAMPTON

She's still saying it 🤩

Football, bloody hell. Legends and heroes, every one of them.

Blinking flip #TheFootball

She may not say this ever again after the next 5 minutes, but I am proud at having raised an England football fan who will, unironically, use the phrase "yay, penalties!"

This might honestly be the best sitcom of them all. If you haven't heard it, do yourself a favour and listen.

This is the beautiful Liz Berry poem Frank Skinner references in @petepaphides.bsky.social's superb interview.

I DO NOT WANT TEAMS IN MY CAR, I DO NOT WANT IT NEAR OR FAR. I WOULD NOT LOG ON IN A JAG, I WOULD NOT CALL IN FROM A CAB, I DO NOT WANT THIS TEAMS YOU SEE, GET IT FAR AWAY FROM ME

I’m putting together some events and conferences info for our team. Does anyone know if Govcamp North and/or OneTeamGov breakfasts are still going, please? 👀

I’ve no idea if Mr Cig was real, but what a performance Rip Torn gave for him in the 1991 Doors biopic. The scene where he inspires Jim to write Light My Fire (“light my head, Jim. I’m just a massive human cigarette. Light my head on fire.”) bravo Oliver Stone.

Football, bloody hell.

This is England!

Message Hidden Backward In Black Sabbath Album Wishes Everyone A Good Time Listening To Rock And Roll

“GovGPT, please book me a return train from Leeds to London, with tube travel to Canary Wharf for next Wednesday. Make sure the booking adheres to civil service travel cost policy.” <New Mexico data centre bursts into flames>

An apology to my fans

In a stunning moment of carnal desire, my calculator said “BOOBIE5”

This story is unutterably vapid, but I'll tell ya. Human beings, we make genius out of vapid every single day.

ceakig wæs þe cyss-cæm þa coldplay gesungon ceo-ceorl wæs trending, trolledon scitposteras. þæt wæs god posting

Thank you to everyone who suggested #ukgc26 locations and voted. We the @ukgovcamp.bsky.social organisers have chosen #Birmingham. We known it came 2nd in the vote after #Manchester, but believe it's a better balance for our first event outside of #London. 🧵 Thread 1/3.

It's St Swithun's Day, have a poem where he's grumpy about the way he was buried, and was actually really happy when Winchester Cathedral started to sink because it was built without foundations.