Stefan Czerniawski

@Ajctwit I remember it vividly because you made me (and a few other people) do it too. It was a powerful lesson, not forgotten.

@pubstrat Opened an account but not really used BlueSky yet. Fancy you remembering the Board and Exec team struggling to fill in the form! I tried it with SoS when he asked why take up was difficult, he declined. Now is the first time since I left DWP that I miss it.

.@Ajctwit - You're missing out in not having made the jump to blue sky. Your fan mail is piling up on the doormat

Jacek Świtalski 31 August 1928 - 1 August 1944 Killed on the first day of the Warsaw Uprising during the Home Army attack on Gestapo headquarters Remembered today

@gsoh31 I remember seeing him walking along a street in Oxford in the early 80s - a small and rather forlorn figure. And years later, hearing stories from government drivers who had taken him home from the Lords and were offered a tip at a level which overlooked decades of inflation.

@marxculture @JeniT @InstituteGC Written by that well known authority, Multiple Experts, lending the work all the weight associated with that great name. Though oddly Dr Expert never seems to have come across actual government, never mind actual AI.

Just reading through @InstituteGC's report on reimagining DWP, and it's so completely unserious. It fails to engage with any of the realities of data/AI in government. You may as well replace each instance of "AI" with "magic" for all the sense it makes. institute.global/insights/polit…

@marxculture It's only real Keynesianism if you put the stones back again

@peterkwells @JeniT What's needed is not leniency, but leeway - the effect may be similar, but the mindset is very different publicstrategist.com/2015/05/leeway…

'precisely' is a place where so much thinking goes wrong the UK state will *never* have a 'precise' list of who has a right to be here - humans are more complicated than data, see Windrush scandal - so you *always* need some leniency, esp in immigration bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

@GavinFreeguard @JeniT Maybe we have entered the new era in which MoG changes (or any other government decisions) have no element of oddness. But not sure I am yet ready to assume that.

Well well (/ht @GavinFreeguard). GDS, CDDO and i.AI are all moving into DSIT. I wonder if this will lead to better integration between the twin goals of advancing digital/data/AI in govt and championing them in the wider economy. gov.uk/government/new…

@harrym @blangry And all the best conversations have gone to where the sky is blue.

@blangry But of course 😘

Labour winning the election makes me tempted to come back to Twitter, but is that just nostalgia? 🤔

@10DowningStreet @CrispianWFCDO Given, it seems, while he was working for Rishi Sunak

Read Prime Minister @Keir_Starmer’s full speech below. gov.uk/government/spe…

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@SilenceInPolish I know nothing about the music, but I remember this from summer visits to grandparents in the 70s, and it still seems to be going strong sidmouthfolkfestival.co.uk

Right - the British folk scene in the 1970s. Who were the big names? Who are still active/alive/touring? Trying to plan a surprise birthday for a hippy/canal-loving 75 year old. Best folk festivals that run in the summer? Thank you xx

@paul_clarke It's ok. They eat other things. From their weekly patrols on putting the rubbish out eve round here, I do not detect great fastidiousness.

@marxculture Wise

@marxculture Have you really forgotten all the others?

@peterbjordan They still are MPs until Thursday. And then, yes they should.

@marxculture Monday, as in bank holiday Monday, when banks are, er...?

@marxculture Early and often

@marxculture "Holborn and St Pancras" #TakingOneForTheTeam