Gordon Guthrie
@foundationsofthedigitalstate.com
Just published The Foundations Of The Digital State - a report for the Scottish Government
http://foundationsofthedigitalstate.com/
and blogs at
digitalpolicy.substack.com
Politician manqué, girl group fan, code monkey
http://foundationsofthedigitalstate.com/
and blogs at
digitalpolicy.substack.com
Politician manqué, girl group fan, code monkey
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Me: it would be good if government budget and spending review processes were done more openly and transparently
Also me: NOT LIKE THIS
Also me: NOT LIKE THIS
November 26, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Me: it would be good if government budget and spending review processes were done more openly and transparently
Also me: NOT LIKE THIS
Also me: NOT LIKE THIS
Personally I think they chose the wrong end of Amerigo Vespucci and yon Vespuccians can suck it up
Like it’s one thing for a group of people to say “I prefer to be called this” it’s another to TELL another whole country of diverse ethnicities and heritage that you will now be calling them something else.
November 26, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Personally I think they chose the wrong end of Amerigo Vespucci and yon Vespuccians can suck it up
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So this happened in Oslo yesterday. Four articulated buses got stuck in a roundabout.
November 25, 2025 at 8:23 AM
So this happened in Oslo yesterday. Four articulated buses got stuck in a roundabout.
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
'Mon the Bezzle
⚠️ REVEALED: A bombshell move at the SEC could wipe out 98% of shareholder proposals — the mechanism investors use to push companies on pay, governance and climate risks. Legal experts say this interpretation of Delaware law would silence millions of shareholders.
www.levernews.com/wall-streets...
www.levernews.com/wall-streets...
Wall Street’s Top Cop Wants To Silence Shareholders
Securities and Exchange Commissioner Paul Atkins wants to eliminate the vast majority of shareholder proposals from corporate governance.
www.levernews.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:40 PM
'Mon the Bezzle
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this is SO good, not least for the unexpected reference to the Yorkshire Rider bus company
People are calling my lede here "appalling," "nightmare fuel," "actively evil," and "a desecration of the human spirit"
The Olivia Nuzzi and RFK Jr. Affair Is Messier Than We Ever Could Have Imagined
Inside the most important, and also least important, story of our time
www.theringer.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:58 PM
this is SO good, not least for the unexpected reference to the Yorkshire Rider bus company
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In essence: juries are important for what decisions they prevent others from making.
Juries are not perfect.
Many of the worst miscarriages of justice have followed jury trials.
But the merit of juries is not so much the power they have, but the power they prevent others from having.
They mean a judge cannot just nod-along with prosecution evidence and give a guilty verdict.
Many of the worst miscarriages of justice have followed jury trials.
But the merit of juries is not so much the power they have, but the power they prevent others from having.
They mean a judge cannot just nod-along with prosecution evidence and give a guilty verdict.
November 25, 2025 at 9:52 PM
In essence: juries are important for what decisions they prevent others from making.
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Researching a bit of historic Budget trivia and TL;DR- it's Gladstone. It's always Gladstone.
The red box? Gladstone. The tradition the Chancellor can drink while speaking? Gladstone. Longest Budget speech? Gladstone. Most Budget speeches? Gladstone.
The red box? Gladstone. The tradition the Chancellor can drink while speaking? Gladstone. Longest Budget speech? Gladstone. Most Budget speeches? Gladstone.
November 25, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Researching a bit of historic Budget trivia and TL;DR- it's Gladstone. It's always Gladstone.
The red box? Gladstone. The tradition the Chancellor can drink while speaking? Gladstone. Longest Budget speech? Gladstone. Most Budget speeches? Gladstone.
The red box? Gladstone. The tradition the Chancellor can drink while speaking? Gladstone. Longest Budget speech? Gladstone. Most Budget speeches? Gladstone.
Authoritarian regimes rely on their military base
If Hegseth gets cuffed by a military court on this one then it's a significant thing and a good thing
Hitler didn't let von Ribbentrop organise Bloomberg-Frisch or the Night of the Long Knives for good reason
If Hegseth gets cuffed by a military court on this one then it's a significant thing and a good thing
Hitler didn't let von Ribbentrop organise Bloomberg-Frisch or the Night of the Long Knives for good reason
I would decline to voluntarily cooperate. No way. Issue a subpoena and fight it out in court.
MS NOW confirms: The FBI is working with Capitol Police to schedule interviews with the six Democratic lawmakers who urged service members to refuse to comply with illegal orders.
November 25, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Authoritarian regimes rely on their military base
If Hegseth gets cuffed by a military court on this one then it's a significant thing and a good thing
Hitler didn't let von Ribbentrop organise Bloomberg-Frisch or the Night of the Long Knives for good reason
If Hegseth gets cuffed by a military court on this one then it's a significant thing and a good thing
Hitler didn't let von Ribbentrop organise Bloomberg-Frisch or the Night of the Long Knives for good reason
This is interesting - gazetting technical standards - precisely the approach I recommend in foundationsofthedigitalstate.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:06 PM
This is interesting - gazetting technical standards - precisely the approach I recommend in foundationsofthedigitalstate.com
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This btw is why the defensive crouch that UK and other European broadcasters have fallen into towards the Trump administration is so crazy. Like many counterparts in US media they've convinced themselves that Trump has a mystical link with the American volk when in reality he is now deeply unpopular
Not least because the current US President is rapidly losing popularity and things will look rather different over the coming year. I hope Bregman’s missing line is at least reinserted in the podcast editions of the lecture.
November 25, 2025 at 12:17 PM
This btw is why the defensive crouch that UK and other European broadcasters have fallen into towards the Trump administration is so crazy. Like many counterparts in US media they've convinced themselves that Trump has a mystical link with the American volk when in reality he is now deeply unpopular
Unbelievable
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Unbelievable
...and some of them know that a return to the rule of law means the clang of jail doors for them
The sound you are hearing from the Trump administration is political panic. Because of all the corruption they cannot afford to lose the 2026 midterms, but they know in a free vote they are looking at defeat.
The implication of this is that they will try to thwart a free vote.
The implication of this is that they will try to thwart a free vote.
November 25, 2025 at 8:32 AM
...and some of them know that a return to the rule of law means the clang of jail doors for them
this is *quite* the story
My favourite example of this is someone we banned from a community many years ago, who was later recruited by the moderator of an accelerationist forum to "stimulate activity".
Predictably it went horrendously wrong and the disclosure post is quite something forum.fractalfuture.net/t/the-moriar...
Predictably it went horrendously wrong and the disclosure post is quite something forum.fractalfuture.net/t/the-moriar...
The Moriarty Experiment is concluded
The Moriarty Experiment At the end of 2015 I got worried about the low level of activity within the Fractal Future Forum. That motivated me to start a rather desperate experiment. I invited one of the...
forum.fractalfuture.net
November 24, 2025 at 6:15 PM
this is *quite* the story
The text of my tweet about court martialling a retired officer for saying that soldiers must not obey unlawful orders raises questions about my tweet and the court martial
November 24, 2025 at 5:13 PM
The text of my tweet about court martialling a retired officer for saying that soldiers must not obey unlawful orders raises questions about my tweet and the court martial
Bloomberg-Fritsch crisis
November 24, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Bloomberg-Fritsch crisis
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headache and moustache ought to rhyme with each other somehow
November 24, 2025 at 12:10 PM
headache and moustache ought to rhyme with each other somehow
Go back to your constituencies and prepare for government, Charlie Brown
and then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes, Charlie Brown
God is dead. God remains dead. And it is we who have killed him, Charlie Brown.
November 24, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Go back to your constituencies and prepare for government, Charlie Brown
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My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions, loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius, father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife, and I will have my vengeance, Charlie Brown, in this life or the next.
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.
all those moments will be lost in time. like tears in rain.
time to die, Charlie Brown
all those moments will be lost in time. like tears in rain.
time to die, Charlie Brown
I’m not the guy you kill, Charlie Brown. I’m the guy you buy!
November 24, 2025 at 7:10 AM
My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions, loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius, father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife, and I will have my vengeance, Charlie Brown, in this life or the next.
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Mike Green is writing some amazing stuff at the moment. It's not in the delta, it's in the level and the cost structure. Read this and you will understand Angrynomics on a new level: www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
Part 1: My Life Is a Lie
How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America
www.yesigiveafig.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Mike Green is writing some amazing stuff at the moment. It's not in the delta, it's in the level and the cost structure. Read this and you will understand Angrynomics on a new level: www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
Reading Magnetic Mountain reminded me again of Schlögel's magisterial Moscow 1937 - where he points out that the great show trials were enormously popular and that the Stalinist Centre was compelled to produce an explanation of the failures of the socialist economy
November 23, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Reading Magnetic Mountain reminded me again of Schlögel's magisterial Moscow 1937 - where he points out that the great show trials were enormously popular and that the Stalinist Centre was compelled to produce an explanation of the failures of the socialist economy