Quango cuts could save £5.2bn and cost 69,000 people their jobs
Today's leak of the Government's list of potential Quango cuts shows that up to 177 Quangos could go. Dozens more are under review, or due for consolidation. Thanks to a Taxpayer's Alliance report (PDF...
View ArticleThe chart that will keep Cameron up at night
Behold, the "Organogram of Government". Released in bits by the Cabinet Office, this chart details the structure and pay of people working in central Government departments. Everyone from Chief...
View ArticleWhere Are The Cuts? brings the Spending Review to your street
The moment George Osborne announces the details of the Comprehensive Spending Review at the Treasury tomorrow afternoon, PDF documents stuffed with big numbers will be posted online. Soon after, those...
View ArticleTwitter observes Remembrance Day 2010
For two minutes today at 11AM, people across the world stood silent to remember the end of the First World War. For the first time we can see how this moment of respect reaches to social networks....
View ArticleArmchair auditors, sit up: OpenCorporates connects company information to...
Armchair auditors will be sitting forward today for the launch of OpenCorporates, a website that connects basic information about companies to the money they receive from the Government. The site...
View ArticleWhy www.police.uk is useless – aka the 'oh look pretty maps!' effect
The Home Office launched www.police.uk today, which could cause house prices to tumble and make ghost towns of bad neighbourhoods. Fortunately www.police.uk won't do either of these things and here's...
View ArticleData transparency is one coalition policy delivered on time, as promised
The Government is making transparency look easy. As I write, I'm watching tweets from Francis Maude's announcement on the publication of a raft of new Government data. Datasets on health, education,...
View ArticleRevealed: when citizens can inspect their council's accounts
If you have an hour or two free in the next few weeks, why not drop by your local town hall and inspect your council's accounts? For 20 days in June, July or August, every council is legally required...
View ArticleAll-electric cars are expensive, impractical playthings, and always will be –...
New figures for car registrations show that the number of ultra-low-emission vehicles sold in the second quarter of this year could barely fill an average shopping-centre car park. A mere 628...
View ArticleSteve Jobs at Apple: a relentless rise in graphs and charts
The abundance of iPhones, iPads and iPods today makes it easy to forget that Apple wasn't always so popular. If you owned a Macintosh before 1998, you were either a creative-type with expensive...
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