Ha yes, and they’d hire a lead architect on £48k per year, because someone who uses his computer for email says that the role is grade 2B+ for which that’s the salary available. Alternatively, hire h… (View Post)

What Streeting can do though, is mandate a particular data structure and framework that NHS-approved software has to follow, and design an API themselves. Even better would be an NHS.gov website that… (View Post)

The Russian withdrawal from Syria, makes the US withdrawal from Afghanistan look like it was well organised and brilliantly executed. What a shame for Putin’s 21st Century Potemkin army. (View Post)

The issue with military spending isn’t so much the amount of money spent, although that is important to some extent, but the way in which it’s spent. Wartime spending looks very different from peacet… (View Post)

One advantage of the Ukraine war is that, whatever one’s view of the last three decades of geopolitics in that region, when it comes to the war itself there’s clearly one set of good guys and one set… (View Post)