Gordon Guthrie
foundationsofthedigitalstate.com
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
jeezo thats bad
November 15, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Trump doesnt leave a paper trail, when his CFO was jailed for fraud there was no trail to him
November 14, 2025 at 3:51 PM
...higher per capita GDP than London and Scottish cities pulling away from English ones, etc, etc...
November 14, 2025 at 1:33 PM
of the three major traditions of Labour: Bennery, Brownism and Blairism, experiwnce clearly shows thatbthe most successful is Dewarism

Dewar fundamentally reformed basic political institutions and Scotland went from one of the poorest parts of the UK to where we are today with Edinburgh having...
November 14, 2025 at 1:33 PM
I feel a foreigner in mine own land
November 14, 2025 at 12:05 PM
A free market only exists under the state and digital markets are not free markets - without state regulation we have nothing

digitalpolicy.substack.com/p/free-marke...
Free Markets Vs America
Move over fakeohs, the Capitalists are coming
digitalpolicy.substack.com
November 14, 2025 at 10:46 AM
I bet its all Jaffa Cakes in your house too, ya big VAT dodger?

Did ya marry a lassie like my Orla with size 2 feet to buy from the kiddies section too?
November 14, 2025 at 8:59 AM
My favourite is the series of best selling books: How Not To Give A F*ck! et al
November 14, 2025 at 8:41 AM
[waves]
November 13, 2025 at 10:58 PM
merci buckets
November 13, 2025 at 10:54 PM
I need a link for ny Xmas shopping requirements for her that is a knitter and insisted we go on holiday to Finland and up to Tampera
November 13, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Reposted by Gordon Guthrie
Give My Head Peace Flags.avi
YouTube video by Matt Anderson
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November 13, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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Hah...well, this is all politics now
www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8Jq...
The Blame Game: Flegs
YouTube video by BBC Northern Ireland
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November 13, 2025 at 4:15 PM
well I also worked in politics in NI 92-93 so also fun times/gun times ;-)
November 13, 2025 at 4:13 PM
with a human receipt up to the city organisation, and this would end with a nightime meeting in a laybye in South Wales - a bagman with a pillowcase of cash and a human receipt handing over to a bagman and receipt
November 13, 2025 at 4:11 PM
an abiding memory of the Miner's Strike is that after the Union was sequestered Miners Support went quasi-underground

We stopped keeping records. I would take the weeks student collection in cash to the Yooni org with a human receipt

We would pool the various collections up and send a bag of cash
November 13, 2025 at 4:11 PM