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David Evans

@davidevans.org.uk

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I've done quite a mix of things in tech, strategy, comms, public affairs. Currently doing churchy stuff, surprisingly.

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David Evans @davidevans.org.uk · 1h

Reading this, I decided which fictional detective Badenoch most reminds me of.

a man in a suit is standing next to another man in a room

ALT: a man in a suit is standing next to another man in a room

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David Evans @davidevans.org.uk · 1h

It all works out in the wash, as the people they report to make stuff up as well, and the ones *they* report to are probably barking mad. Anyway, good luck against those elephants.

a man in a military uniform with a mustache is making a funny face and says baaaah .

ALT: a man in a military uniform with a mustache is making a funny face and says baaaah .

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David Evans @davidevans.org.uk · 6h

"Cake, or death, or possibly frogs."

Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 7h

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 7h

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

David Evans @davidevans.org.uk · 9h

Nice Siphonaptender there 👍👏

David Evans @davidevans.org.uk · 9h

Founding fathers eh? Shoddy work really, bet they didn't even think it would last a few hundred years let alone the full thousand. Anyone who has been properly trained to lay down a constitution knows a failed budget is a failed government. Should've looked them up on Checkatrade.

David Evans @davidevans.org.uk · 9h

I remember walking around the Miami Boat Show going "Oh my goodness how big are these?!?" when I realised I hadn't even seen the big ones. The really big boats have a small boat that is still so big it needs its own smaller boat to take people to shore.

Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 9h

This boat has a baby

Baby boat

David Evans @davidevans.org.uk · 9h

One day the outsider, next day the new establishment.

David Evans @davidevans.org.uk · 9h

I hear you. At least neither of them can be elected King though…

David Evans @davidevans.org.uk · 10h

"A YouGov poll of the lobby asked 'Out of Sir Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch, who would you think most likely to have done competent and detailed staff work on a legal issue?', and received 100% response for the option 'why are you even bothering asking that?'"

David Evans @davidevans.org.uk · 10h

At the risk of jingoism, the somewhat weird and contextually-derived constitutional arrangement we have is looking more resilient than some of those more consciously-designed republican ones right now.

David Evans @davidevans.org.uk · 10h

Don't get me wrong, I think the whole situation sounds highly suboptimal. The political aspects may be weird, but it seems to me the weirdness is emanating from the opposition benches, not the current governmental response. We'll see when things get released I guess.

David Evans @davidevans.org.uk · 10h

The issue around precedents is whether a future government, hostile to the current one, would disclose something damaging in future...

...but this does not breach that precedent because consent is not only given, disclosure is demanded. Badenoch is both literally and figuratively asking for it.

David Evans @davidevans.org.uk · 10h

Personally, I think what you're describing is procedural insider baseball rather than anything the public at large cares about. If anything a failure to disclose would be more politically damaging, although I'm not sure any of this procedural stuff would move any dial anywhere.

David Evans @davidevans.org.uk · 11h

...if so, could be the final, terminal, example of her not doing the detailed staff work on an issue. Don't ask a question like that if you don't know the answer, esp. if the answer could bury you.

It also comes hot on the heels of this, that I imagine won't have gone unnoticed on her own benches:

Keir the OK, Kemi the Dreadful | Robert Hutton | The Critic Magazine

It was Day Two of the Greatest Peace Deal of The Last Three Thousand Years™, and Keir Starmer had come to update the House of Commons. The previous day, at the Israeli parliament…

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David Evans @davidevans.org.uk · 11h

Releasing witness statements that make the previous government look bad wouldn't in general be a good precedent, but when a member of that previous government now leading that same party demands you do so it is quite a different matter.

David Evans @davidevans.org.uk · 11h

I recently wiped a phone to see if that cleared some issues, and given my background I can approach that in a structured way and ensure I don't lose access - but some of what's required is quite complicated! As I did it I was wondering to myself how 'normal' people manage it (I expect they don't).

David Evans @davidevans.org.uk · 1d

Well Stephen, you have really strong ideas about the new HBO Harry Potter series, but have you even seen an episode? 😂

David Evans @davidevans.org.uk · 1d

My tactic, that I'm quite pleased with, is to buy unwanted workgroup colour lasers on eBay (i.e. small corporate-aimed printers). Unlike consumer printers, those buyers demand high reliability and low cost of consumables. They just work, and the cost per page is tiny. I've bought two in 15 years.

David Evans @davidevans.org.uk · 1d

An all-time great sketch. One of the best I've seen, and I've seen a lot of sketches. Some say the greatest ever.

(All true. Ok, the last bit may be hyperbole, but it's *justified* hyperbole)

David Evans @davidevans.org.uk · 1d

Is it those heavily invested in certain companies and / or exposed to market corrections in the USA are the ones who might care? Given historic precedents, does the latter includes pretty much everyone in the western world..?

David Evans @davidevans.org.uk · 2d

What I had in mind, but didn't express very well, was that Prevent is an example of how challenging and controversial de-radicalisation can be, even on something that in theory is a settled space (i.e. 'terrorism is bad'). Hence a governmental response on this is likely to be v difficult.

David Evans @davidevans.org.uk · 2d

Is Prevent the closest statutory response to something like this? If so, I guess that of itself highlights how challenging this space is.

Get help for radicalisation concerns

Find out how the Prevent programme supports people who are at risk of becoming involved with terrorism through radicalisation.

David Evans @davidevans.org.uk · 2d

Perhaps it helps that the drugs are mostly only available to rich people.

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Jeni Tennison @jenitennison.com · 2d

My team are helpfully threatening to do a 'gogglebox' style review of my performance in front of the SIT Committee tomorrow...

Owen Boswarva @owenboswarva.bsky.social · 2d

The Science, Innovation and Technology Committee is taking evidence tomorrow for its Digital Centre of Government inquiry committees.parliament.uk/event/25253/... (video)

With @njdavies.bsky.social, Jason Liggins, @gaiamarcus.bsky.social, @jenitennison.com

#govtech #techpolicy #datapolicy etc.