Stefan Czerniawski
@pubstr.at
Blogging less than the olden days. Still working to make public services better, now in healthcare regulation.
Governments have precisely one function. To make choices.
November 24, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Governments have precisely one function. To make choices.
... and a fine restaurant at the top with views across Trafalgar Square. And even cocktails, for those who appreciate such things.
November 21, 2025 at 10:05 AM
... and a fine restaurant at the top with views across Trafalgar Square. And even cocktails, for those who appreciate such things.
We know one person who has form on doing digital stuff for ONS...
November 20, 2025 at 8:36 PM
We know one person who has form on doing digital stuff for ONS...
It is, but it has connotations of wrongness - indeed wrongness now overshadows leftness in modern usage. So you're right, not quite what you were looking for, but not quite not that either.
November 17, 2025 at 10:45 AM
It is, but it has connotations of wrongness - indeed wrongness now overshadows leftness in modern usage. So you're right, not quite what you were looking for, but not quite not that either.
My grandfather was still fighting the first world war until 1920. And certainly couldn't safely return to Poland after the second. He died without ever being able to go back to the country he had helped to liberate.
November 16, 2025 at 9:03 PM
My grandfather was still fighting the first world war until 1920. And certainly couldn't safely return to Poland after the second. He died without ever being able to go back to the country he had helped to liberate.
Just won't be able to do the crossword until the newspaper vans brave the depths.
November 15, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Just won't be able to do the crossword until the newspaper vans brave the depths.
Thank you, I think she'll be ok, she's right at the top of the town by Agincourt Square, so not immediately affected, so she will be able to wait it out until things get more normal.
November 15, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Thank you, I think she'll be ok, she's right at the top of the town by Agincourt Square, so not immediately affected, so she will be able to wait it out until things get more normal.
News just in from our Monmouth correspondent:
The water has gone down and some shops are open although there are no newspapers because the delivery vans couldn't get through.
The water has gone down and some shops are open although there are no newspapers because the delivery vans couldn't get through.
November 15, 2025 at 10:42 AM
News just in from our Monmouth correspondent:
The water has gone down and some shops are open although there are no newspapers because the delivery vans couldn't get through.
The water has gone down and some shops are open although there are no newspapers because the delivery vans couldn't get through.
I hope your stream is behaving
November 15, 2025 at 10:37 AM
I hope your stream is behaving
And the water is so far up the hill.
Cheerful message from my mum that there was a rescue boat moored outside her window earlier, which hardly sounded credible, but seeing these pictures anything is possible.
Cheerful message from my mum that there was a rescue boat moored outside her window earlier, which hardly sounded credible, but seeing these pictures anything is possible.
November 15, 2025 at 10:36 AM
And the water is so far up the hill.
Cheerful message from my mum that there was a rescue boat moored outside her window earlier, which hardly sounded credible, but seeing these pictures anything is possible.
Cheerful message from my mum that there was a rescue boat moored outside her window earlier, which hardly sounded credible, but seeing these pictures anything is possible.
The suggestion that the write round process is a material factor in the pace of government decision making is though absurd. Government is ponderous in many ways and its decision making cries out for improvement - but changing write rounds would be fiddling at the margin.
November 13, 2025 at 9:23 PM
The suggestion that the write round process is a material factor in the pace of government decision making is though absurd. Government is ponderous in many ways and its decision making cries out for improvement - but changing write rounds would be fiddling at the margin.
Thank you for sharing that - I had not heard that she had died. Marilynne was a wonderful colleague and provided wise advice at the intersection of law and policy with extraordinary deftness.
November 13, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Thank you for sharing that - I had not heard that she had died. Marilynne was a wonderful colleague and provided wise advice at the intersection of law and policy with extraordinary deftness.
Zenits long predate perestroika - solid Brezhnevism, applying the principles of tank building to cameras
November 13, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Zenits long predate perestroika - solid Brezhnevism, applying the principles of tank building to cameras
Now you have made me old. I associate 80s Prakticas with, strangely, the 80s.
I also have a vast crate of my dad's negatives, over which I despair.
Sometimes progress is in fact progress.
I also have a vast crate of my dad's negatives, over which I despair.
Sometimes progress is in fact progress.
November 13, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Now you have made me old. I associate 80s Prakticas with, strangely, the 80s.
I also have a vast crate of my dad's negatives, over which I despair.
Sometimes progress is in fact progress.
I also have a vast crate of my dad's negatives, over which I despair.
Sometimes progress is in fact progress.
To say nothing of the fact that it is not the most obvious illustration of a clarinet concerto.
November 13, 2025 at 12:14 PM
To say nothing of the fact that it is not the most obvious illustration of a clarinet concerto.
A problem also avoided by not voting through the medium of superannuated hole punches.
November 10, 2025 at 8:05 PM
A problem also avoided by not voting through the medium of superannuated hole punches.
He is a GOAT. And goats get slaughtered, however well intentioned.
@profserious.bsky.social has wise words on how the very smartest goats may survive, but being a ministerial goat is the hardest of all.
@profserious.bsky.social has wise words on how the very smartest goats may survive, but being a ministerial goat is the hardest of all.
On Adaptation
... and the path to change
profserious.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:45 PM
He is a GOAT. And goats get slaughtered, however well intentioned.
@profserious.bsky.social has wise words on how the very smartest goats may survive, but being a ministerial goat is the hardest of all.
@profserious.bsky.social has wise words on how the very smartest goats may survive, but being a ministerial goat is the hardest of all.
That's unkind.
You clearly haven't read revision 6 of chapter 13 which provides complete clarity when read alongside the retained elements of revision 2 and the cross references to the Instructions for Disuse policy (but noting that these are to the 2021 version and have not yet been updated).
You clearly haven't read revision 6 of chapter 13 which provides complete clarity when read alongside the retained elements of revision 2 and the cross references to the Instructions for Disuse policy (but noting that these are to the 2021 version and have not yet been updated).
November 10, 2025 at 1:18 PM
That's unkind.
You clearly haven't read revision 6 of chapter 13 which provides complete clarity when read alongside the retained elements of revision 2 and the cross references to the Instructions for Disuse policy (but noting that these are to the 2021 version and have not yet been updated).
You clearly haven't read revision 6 of chapter 13 which provides complete clarity when read alongside the retained elements of revision 2 and the cross references to the Instructions for Disuse policy (but noting that these are to the 2021 version and have not yet been updated).
When did they switch it round to make the sun rise in the west? That's an extraordinary feat of orbital dynamics - credit should be given when it's due.
November 10, 2025 at 9:31 AM
When did they switch it round to make the sun rise in the west? That's an extraordinary feat of orbital dynamics - credit should be given when it's due.
It was another world back then - inferring where the second bus might be was a very dark art
Game over
Some evenings on my way home from work, I play a small private game of chicken. Now I have played it for the last time. If there are too many people at the bus stop – and no, I don’t kn…
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November 8, 2025 at 1:20 PM
It was another world back then - inferring where the second bus might be was a very dark art