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Richard Pope
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I wrote a book on public services:

https://londonpublishingpartnership.co.uk/books/platformland-an-anatomy-of-next-generation-public-services/

It’s time to share the benefits of digital with the public properly.
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I read it goes something like this...
December 18, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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Using ChatGPT to write an Obsidian addon
and had to tell it to rewrite the code to 00’s era javascript so I could understand / edit it.
Sure — here’s the same logic, rewritten in a more old-school, explicit, block-structured JavaScript style:&10; • no arrow functions&10; • no one-line if statements&10; • no ??&10; • no spread syntax&10; • clearer variable naming&10; • everything bracketed and stepped through&10;&10;Nothing functionally changes.
December 17, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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From this weeks Beno. I’m sure it will be a useful metaphor for something at some point.
Comic strip from the Benonshowing Musk and Bezoa shooting footballs out of cannon and saying "don't let them past Jeff, we need the space"
November 29, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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Musing on what’s different about digital bookings
Digital bookings are social objects - diagram shows booking enabling things like transcription and checking codes&10;&10;Digital bookings extend relationships over time - diagram shows two timelines one activities spread over time
November 20, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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First visit in years to the common land where I grew up. Hard to describe quite how much it is a part of me. The colour of the sand, the details of the small handful of types of plants that grow there are beyond familiar. Recognising individual trees from 40 years ago everywhere. Cheesy but true.
November 1, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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Sketching interfaces, riffing off Berg's Here & There
A timeline for preventative healthcare
October 6, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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Scouts, skills for life! (volcano related parenting injury)
Rope handle for walking stic. Blue deck chairs in background
August 21, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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Black and white photograph of tabby cat on wooden floor
August 3, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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Red sign for the bus cafe - delicious food at reasonable prices!
July 8, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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In Prague for a packed Creative Bureaucracy Festival
June 19, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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Something something consistent branding
June 3, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Very belatedly passed my driving test 30 years later than I could have. 3 minor faults. Undue interest in the GOV.UK design system based form used by the examiner did not seem to count against me.
The driving test email. Gov.uk branded
June 3, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Enjoyed Land Talks #1
Qr code singup for land talks 1
May 6, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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MK marathon ✅
Me in blue top with medal
May 5, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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A month later than intended, but here we go...
Milton Keynes marathon bib number. 2203.
May 5, 2025 at 5:40 AM
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St Clements and Mary le Bow both with strong cherry blossom today 🍊🍋🔔
At Clement Danes with cherry blossom Bow Bells with cherry blossom
March 27, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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Green parakeet in pink blossoms Green parakeet in pink blossoms
March 27, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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Spotted on the floor of Westminster Hall earlier, a reminder that the US constitution is a fork of 17c England
This Tablet marks, with as much accuracy as can be attained the place where Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford, stood in this hall during the impeachment for High Treason brought against him before the House of Lords, upon the accusation of the House of Common
March 25, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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Pugin tile. Blue and red
March 25, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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Back at the old office for the day
March 24, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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Buds on willow branches
February 22, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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I'd really like to read an assessment of US situation against Bingham's eight rule of law principles
Screenshot of text: He went on to publish The Rule of Law (2010), a popular book that won the Orwell Prize. In it, he set out eight principles of the Rule of Law: (1) The law must be accessible and so far as possible intelligible, clear and predictable. (2) Questions of legal right and liability should ordinarily be resolved by application of the law and not the exercise of discretion. (3) The laws of the land should apply equally to all, save to the extent that objective differences justify differentiation. (4) Ministers and public officers at all levels must exercise the powers conferred on them in good faith, fairly, for the purpose for which the powers were conferred, without exceeding the limits of such powers and not unreasonably. (5) The law must afford adequate protection of fundamental human rights. (6) Means must be provided for resolving, without prohibitive cost or inordinate delay, bona fide civil disputes which the parties themselves are unable to resolve. (7) The adjudicative procedures provided by the state should be fair. (8) The rule of law requires compliance by the state with its obligations in international law as in national law. Lord Bingham's book is now also available as an Audiobook.
February 21, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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In east London to get a new passport which will no longer say 'European Community'. Also walked past this.
Large video screen on walkway to Excel Centre advertising the ARC conference.
February 19, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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Hampton Court half marathon ✔️
February 16, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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If the gov design community were looking for a test case for applying design principles to a physical space I'd like to recommend dvsa test centres
Scruffy looking dvsa buzzer A4 poster saying 'theory test' Dvsa sign
January 30, 2025 at 7:47 PM