I don’t wish to become overtly political, not that I’m not a political person, it’s just this blog is about the impact of technology on public services rather than a general rant about the state of the world (although the two can be very connected at times, something the ODPM would rather not mention).

But I have to say the sooner this freak Ruth Kelly is out of public life the better.

I have spent the best part of the last six months working on information governance protocols and here we find the usual mess emerging from government.

As for ’school reforms’, anyone who has children will know that the education system in large parts of this country has already become one of several tiers - independent schools, religous schools, city academies run by creationists and all sorts of other things (I don’t even know what all the categories are, and me being a keen taxonomist as well).

What we no longer have is universal comprehensive education. But like so much of the Blair project, the concentration of the government and its supporters is to convince us that the appearance is the same as the reality, when in fact these two states are moving in diametrically opposite directions.

Rule number one: All MPs should live in the area they represent
Rule number two: All MPs should send their children to the worst performing of the local schools in that local area…