Is that masculinity though?

Even as a UK kid in the 00s, there were limits to the relevance.

Seeing as I've missed the 20th anniversary of South London Boroughs EP, just be aware that I'll be listening to nothing but Burial from now until Christmas to make up the difference.

Got to love a page where CSS was a bit too pricey.

Reliable brains in sync!

Of course the answer is "it would have been shitcanned the moment money needed saving" which is bad, true and a problem that speaks to a bigger problem.

I wonder what would have happened if gov dot uk had had an area that was for independent parts of the machine (NAO, Parliament, OBR, judiciary, PAC, JAC, inquiries, quite a few NDPBs) that could have pooled some of the benefits but governanced away from gov control.

It's just amazing the semantic shift in what we're seeing here though: www.mysociety.org/2014/09/08/c...
- Tech that’s all about citizens exerting and obtaining power
- Tech that’s all about improving government services
Not at all what I'd call civic tech today.

Don't say that, I'll have to re-write a chapter! Does "civic" resonate?
Is technology even a thing? I keep coming back to this problem of 'would you start an analogue organisation' and is civic tech so omnipresent as a component in the space that calling it out is like noticing paper?

Also a thing I've been mulling is that we never got to the "go wholesale" part of the MLF plan. Citizens Advice can't compete to do a better Tax Free Childcare service, which has pros and cons but means that bit of civic being a spectrum from community through NGO to gov never happened.

I really like community tech as an explicit era shift towards something more tangible than civics and more explicitly small scale and local rather than grand, worthy but intangible that "civic" always gives me.

Civic tech orgs that have survived either lucked or judged onto a big user problem and solved it. The ones that didn't were sometimes hobby horses. How could we help people with big ideas, big hearts and good org skills hone their proposition (like the BL does with business cases for startups)?

I've always seen us as the old fart version of Ant & Dec.

We could make our fortunes with this proximity to power, fame and talent.

No, I saw a shitshow from a distance and just thought to myself that I remember NUS well enough to not need more of this in my life.

A sudden realisation that I know* (*as a student used to drink with the identical twin of) one of the guys in the bands deep in the 90s on the list.

My penance for living outside London but still wishing to benefit from it economically. BTW: name - are the SWP At It again?