Welsh IMDs are out today! www.gov.wales/welsh-index-...

Oh sure, I think the app was still probably one of the easier ways given the blind alleys to get that point

I was really confused by the "download different app from what I used to verify passport for new driving licence" that also seemed to be... completely identical

In 200 years the OBR budget leaker will mostly be associated with a bit of pre budget pageantry like black rod knocking on the door of the Commons three times. "And now, the OBR budget leaker will commence the ceremonial upload of the PDF"

I appreciate both that all these layers represent People Trying To Fix The Problem, and the continued usefulness of my core skill set - clicking on things till it works.

tbf rachel reeves has bought in a new tax *despite* the betting and gaming council getting her concert tickets few years ago, which I imagine someone is annoyed about (I have follow-up questions on "what was your theory on why you, the shadow chancellor, were being given nice things?" but anyway)

Ah, appreciated! Do you know if there's any plan to publish the signatories? We're starting to collect open letters on TheyWorkForYou as EDM activity moves in that direction (but can be hard to tell from write-ups if something is an open letter, or a closed one)

Yeah this is great. The klingon nationalist parts of Discovery would have fit well into the political future this scene suggests.

(it's a combination of "oh I have a comic financial interest" and "it's a local question and I'm a local councillor" - which makes the 'interest declared' box really hard to interpret)

And while we're here please tell us exactly what the conflict of interest being declared is www.mysociety.org/2024/10/31/b...

Have been doing some LLM fuzzy matching on this and I'd rather not have to.

On the interaction between WPQs and FOI requests, see this post by @alexparsons.bsky.social:

When MPs/Peers should use FOI rather than Parliamentary Questions www.mysociety.org/2025/07/01/w...

I also touched on this subject earlier in the year www.owenboswarva.com/blog/post-ga...

#FOI #opengov

Part of my conversion to being an elected second guy is I just don't see how a functional standards regime is compatible with the theoretical version of the house of experts, let alone what we have in practice alexparsons.co.uk/blog/posts/s...

Like, he clearly identifies with aspects of Hamilton, is kind to him as a *writer*, but also knows as a *performer* to pour the vulnerability back in. It's another layer to the earnestness, and I'm not really sure it works at all if the play wasn't willing to be cringe.

Something interesting in the London version I saw was that while the Burr and Hamilton were probably both stronger as actors than LLM they'd flipped the dynamic, so H was bold and confident and Burr more weaselly. Made me think that a LLM type as Hamilton was actually a more interesting choice.