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Computer Weekly\'s editor gives a personal perspective on the biggest issues in technology and IT strategy.
Recent Posts
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General election 2024: Digital threads run through all parties' manifesto commitments
- Editor in chief 14 Jun 2024 -
Post Office inquiry: So, is Paula Vennells lying or not?
- Editor in chief 23 May 2024 -
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt gives the magic technology tree a shake
- Editor in chief 07 Mar 2024
We’re not yet at the stage where a general election manifesto contains an entire section on digital economy issues, alongside the expected priorities of health, education, defence, housing and so ...
When former Post Office CEO Paula Vennells began her much-anticipated evidence to the public inquiry into the scandal that unfolded on her watch, she turned to the victims and said how grateful she ...
During her ill-fated 2017 general election campaign, prime minister Theresa May told an audience of voters on the BBC that there was no “magic money tree that we can shake to get everything we ...
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Get a grip and pay the subpostmasters
- Editor in chief 01 Mar 2024 -
Post Office scandal: A very good start to what comes next
- Editor in chief 15 Jan 2024 -
The Post Office Scandal: When culture ate the law for breakfast
- Editor in chief 13 Dec 2023 -
Was the devil's greatest trick making you think tech CEOs are just people?
- Editor in chief 24 Nov 2023 -
The great AI threat, or not...
- Editor in chief 06 Nov 2023 -
Continued disclosure failures by Post Office show contempt for Horizon victims
- Editor in chief 12 Jul 2023 -
UK government's 'tech superpower' ambitions must be matched by realism and collaboration
- Editor in chief 17 Mar 2023
Last week there were two questions asked in the House of Commons during Prime Minister’s Questions about the Post Office scandal. How refreshing it is to see this finally becoming a regular part of ...
Well, what can we say? Humbly, let’s start with a very big thank you to Little Gem, the TV production company that created Mr Bates vs the Post Office, and to ITV for broadcasting the drama at ...
Famously, “culture eats strategy for breakfast,” according to management guru Peter Drucker. What should we make, then, of the culture at the Post Office when it was prosecuting innocent people ...
It’s been one of those weeks where tech makes headlines for all the wrong reasons. (Sadly, the wrong reasons are often the only reasons tech makes national headlines, but anyway…) There was much ...
Depending on who you talk to, Rishi Sunak's much-hyped AI Safety Summit was an act of extreme hubris by the UK government, a wasted opportunity, or a historic milestone in the development of ...
What are we to assume from the latest developments in the public inquiry into the Post Office scandal? Let’s lay out the facts... The inquiry was this week forced to postpone scheduled hearings ...
Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt went for it in a big way in his Budget speech this week. Fewer than 400 words were spoken, barely three minutes completed, before we got to cross off the ...
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A data-driven government needs to look beyond regulation
- Editor in chief 02 Mar 2023 -
The challenge for DSIT: don't become the department of 'Yes, but...'
- Editor in chief 10 Feb 2023 -
Tech’s new year resolution: More humility
- Editor in chief 22 Dec 2022 -
UKtech50 2022: You can see these tech leaders, now be like them when it comes to diversity
- Editor in chief 07 Jul 2022 -
Digital levelling up must be a priority for the tech community
- Editor in chief 01 Jul 2022
If you were to read through the many interviews that Computer Weekly conducts with IT and digital leaders, you would be left with a clear picture of the number one focus for organisations looking ...
Any (very) longstanding Computer Weekly readers may be able to cast their minds back to a time when this blog would make a regular call for the UK government to give technology policy a ...
So, that was 2022. After two years of plague, we’ve now added poverty and war. Feeling optimistic about 2023, anyone? Enjoy those Christmas parties while you can… It feels somewhat churlish - amid ...
When Computer Weekly announced the first UKtech50 list of the 50 most influential people in UK technology, back in 2011, just seven women were included. Now, as we publish the 12th annual list, not ...
The UK government’s plans for “levelling up” have, justifiably, come in for criticism. Nice rhetoric, but where’s the delivery? Fair comment. But for the tech community, attempts at digital ...