Nice little tech update from GOV.UK. insidegovuk.blog.gov.uk/2026/03/06/h...

This blog from Policy Lab about working with similar organisations in other countries is excellent. Much more of both this way of working and doing it in the open please! publicpolicydesign.blog.gov.uk/2026/03/05/c...

Great post from the DWP for #InternationalWomensDay dwpdigital.blog.gov.uk/2026/03/05/g...

This sounds good...? Can anyone translate it for me? Thanks 🙏. www.futuregovernanceforum.co.uk/2026/02/23/g...

Early weeknotes from me. How the sausage is made (and documented): frankieroberto.github.io/nhsnotes/pos...

Doing the hard work to make things easy and doing it in the open. Excellent work everyone involved. enablingdigitalidentity.blog.gov.uk/2026/03/03/a...

Reminder that the Call for Sessions for September's @sdingov.bsky.social event is open: govservicedesign.net/call-sessions Conference theme: Democratising Design: sdingov.net/democratisin...

These kind of every day updates from teams are just great. defradigital.blog.gov.uk/2026/03/03/w...

This is a month old but it's taken me that long to build up to posting about it. Data "sharing" works some contexts - if you have the clout to make it happen. So much aggregated data. @jenitennison.com @gavinfreeguard.com . hodigital.blog.gov.uk/2026/02/02/l...

Finally found time to read @andrewgreenway.bsky.social 's really excellent post on Northcote Trevelyan II (the regovernating) and a general great history of why government reforming efforts fail and what we could do about it. Very highly recommended. andrewgreenway.substack.com/p/in-permane...

And speaking of roles no longer existing - this is an enormous blow for the kind of positive cross-gov transformational work we'd like to see. @janethughes.bsky.social is leaving her role in the Cabinet Office and not being replaced. www.linkedin.com/posts/janet-...

This is good - but I wish that for every ten posts or sets of principles or cross-gov meetings on data security that was one that was explicitly on decoupling data from services, data normalisation across government and data sharing. dataingovernment.blog.gov.uk/2026/02/27/s...

This is excellent - thanks very much for sharing. Keep up the good work!

This sounds amazing @hilaryhall.bsky.social - both in terms of sharing openly early for feedback but also in connecting to a good network. I'm a bit confused why you don't want to say what it is.

Who's writing the Government Digital and Data Bulletin (still no proper link)? Reads more like a ministerial press release than any indication of what is going on in GDS. mailchi.mp/bcb75e993219...

This from @bm.wel.by looks great - and I think I'll probably have some strong opinions about the contents so now it's finding the time to go through it properly... bm.wel.by/2026/02/26/b...

30 online-only respondents to a 5 question survey isn't close to what GDS should be calling user research. www.gov.uk/government/p...

At least Camden continue to take missions seriously. medium.com/@changebydes...

Splink is excellent but I wish it wasn't the only example that is constantly used (like City Mapper for open data). There should be so much more of these kind of common tools. mojdigital.blog.gov.uk/2026/02/24/s...

Land Registry doing good work. hmlandregistry.blog.gov.uk/2026/02/24/r...

MHCLG continuing to do the hard work to make things easy (or at least easier). mhclgdigital.blog.gov.uk/2026/02/24/a...

Great to know this is going on. enablingdigitalidentity.blog.gov.uk/2026/02/23/e...

Better than the last one but I'd still love to know if they got focus group feedback and, if so, what they looked like. Also, 61 views in the first day? If you're going to use a Minister's time at least do some paid promotion. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOrd...

What a fantastic event. Of course, more high quality comms with the kind of information people want and the need for FOIs goes down...

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Wrote about whether LinkedIn is making us professionally deranged. Not in an obvious way - more like low-grade ambient derangement. The platform rewards certainty and frequency. Our profession rewards the opposite. Something has to give. www.incomms.com/article/the-...

Bits of DWP doing good comms work. dwpdigital.blog.gov.uk/2026/02/19/k...

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DEFRA again doing good work in the open. I just which there was a combined effort on using AI for citizen engagement rather than every government department doing its own thing. mhclgdigital.blog.gov.uk/2026/02/17/s...

Great to see this Alpha assessment. digitalhealth.blog.gov.uk/2026/02/16/u...

"“I'll be open and honest. I don't know how we'll get through next year. If I get one more bad year, that's it. We're gone” says a fourth generation arable farmer in Lincolnshire. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvjJ... 🌍Join: linktr.ee/cfca

This is the good stuff!

Big props to @benaldo.bsky.social

Signed up for weekly updates from my MP @bambosmp.bsky.social . Get a level of detail one could only dream of seeing from any minister. Imagine ministers publishing their (redacted) diary entries at the end of every week.

“When we flew over Hektoria in early 2024, I couldn’t believe the vastness of the area that had collapsed,” said Naomi Ochwat, lead author and CIRES postdoctoral researcher. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ny-g...

Some departments are just better at being open. Well done DEFRA. defradigital.blog.gov.uk/2026/02/12/h...

Amazing!

I'm obviously a big fan of more and better gov comms. I love the idea of ministers using social media to speak directly to the public. What is this though? Did you get feedback from a broad-spectrum audience before publishing? Try harder. www.youtube.com/watch?v=koX1...

This bot does sterling work posting what DSIT says in Hansard because our government chooses not to make sure comms automatically available themselves.

Weeknotes for 2 weeks as there has been a bit much happening all at once, this probably features a little too much thinking out loud and not enough condensed thoughts, still, it is what it is. @weeknotes-bot.bsky.social weeknot.es/weeknotes-s2...

Genuinely surprised to discover Flickr still exists after the latest DSIT update email points people there. www.flickr.com/photos/dsitg...

This is a remarkably good point. I wonder if the Communications Union has considered it.

so a month ago I was reading @markpackuk.bsky.social’s speech on Twitter in the lords and there were obviously fake stats the government used to justify Twitter’s UK reach and its continued importance to British audiences Rob has now found the source of the data was… Twitter

Well, absolutely. It would be excellent, for example, if the committee were to commit up front to a regular monthly blog, public show and tell videos and / or publishing the minutes of their meetings. Meanwhile, congrats to the folks involved. Let us know when you know what the NDL is 😀.

Nice post from GDS about an often overlooked role. gds.blog.gov.uk/2026/02/05/m...

Once again happened across this today. Absolutely rage inducing that DSIT (e.g. GDS) have their logo on this which is not only worlds-away from correct government branding but also must be an absolutely nightmare for accessibility. delivery.ai.gov.uk?mc_cid=9927f...

This is an excellent post - particularly the part about international cooperation. More of both this kind of work and this kind of public reporting on it please! publicpolicydesign.blog.gov.uk/2026/02/05/p...

On the one hand, huge props to MHCLG for openness about the iterative development of this. This is the kind of really great team level comms we want to see. mhclgdigital.blog.gov.uk/2026/02/04/f...

Absolutely rage inducing. Not that DSIT doesn't have the data (although that does seem to be something that DCMS should know) but that people can claim this kind of thing in Parliament with no citations.