Matthew Cain
mcaino.bsky.social
Matthew Cain
@mcaino.bsky.social
Previously CDIO, Crown Prosecution Service. Personally: LFC, Barnet rugby ‘coach’ and cello.
Just finished another recommendation from @mrbsemporium.bsky.social. Cleverly constructed, rich characters and a big ending
May 31, 2025 at 10:24 AM
There are good reasons to spell out acronyms
April 1, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Amazon is famously frugal as a Leadership Principle but today I discovered two things we didn’t get at the MOJ. Not only do you get a towel in the shower, there’s also a nozzle on the hairdryer
February 7, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Enjoying this new feature from Gmail. It’d be churlish to wonder how long it’s been since the previous update
February 5, 2025 at 8:43 PM
The (coincidental) intersection of reading Prophet Song, visiting Derry and seeing the exhibition @nationalportraitgallery of people affected by the Troubles made for a moving 24 hours
January 30, 2025 at 9:00 PM
I’ve reached that stage of not being at work where I’m trying to engineer banter with a scammer
January 29, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Spotify has correctly judged I’d bring Mendelssohn’s Octet on a desert island open.spotify.com/site/playlis...
Playlist in a Bottle by Spotify
The only playlist you can't hear for a year.
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January 28, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Moving experience to visit Notre Dame cathedral. If St
Paul’s had been destroyed in 2019, would the bat survey have been completed? Or would the construction tender been awarded yet?
January 28, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Thanks to @mrbsemporium.bsky.social I got to read this stunning book this week. Memorable experience
January 17, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Am sharing what I read on holiday in case it helps anyone prioritise their reading. In order of usefulness and beauty, they were:
1. Intermezzo by Sally Rooney
2. A history of the world in 47 borders by John Elledge
3. Supremacy by Palmy Olson
4. Expectation by Anna Hope
January 6, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Got to see this last night. It’s spectacular but found I needed to check myself when it didn’t look as dramatic as the classic Insta shots
January 1, 2025 at 10:48 AM
I had a moment earlier this week where I thought: my younger self would’ve been delighted to be doing this. That I was on my own. half cut in a Soho pub reading a book whilst waiting for my daughter to finish a dance class, meant it was important not to get lost in the details of the moment!
December 25, 2024 at 11:17 AM
I assume you’d have got long odds in August on Bashar Al-Assad and Dan Ashworth going on the same weekend
December 8, 2024 at 1:35 PM
This is an extraordinary translation (I assume) of a tense, tragic thriller.
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November 29, 2024 at 7:06 PM
Night in black tie with the best ever leaving gift
November 22, 2024 at 6:59 PM
In five paragraphs about confusing accountability in local government there’s not one mention of voters or democracy
November 22, 2024 at 12:24 PM
Do academics have a concept of bureaucratic debt? Similar to tech debt it would describe how a new rule might be well designed and well intentioned but when bolted on to a sprawling rules base slows the operating system and occasionally leads to crashes
November 21, 2024 at 7:55 AM
#uksnow 2/10 - EN5
November 19, 2024 at 7:34 AM
Iconic branding from Hackney. And fair play to my former colleagues! I can only imagine the challenge posed by someone _actually_ trying to gift a goat
Gromit lives in a London park. Sometimes I visit the park with my baby. The baby likes goats. ‘There are two goats in this enclosure’, I tell Baby excitedly. Except.

No. No there are not.
November 16, 2024 at 9:24 PM
Which sport is killing itself more quickly: England cricket or rugby?
November 16, 2024 at 7:56 PM
Had a play with Suno AI today to test its music generating capabilities. Save yourself the £8 for the week
November 2, 2024 at 1:58 PM
My colleague @anthull.bsky.social and I have written a thing in a about Agile and dependencies to get your advice on what we can do differently mcain.co.uk/dependencies...
Dependencies: the toxic Agile anti-pattern – Matthew Cain
mcain.co.uk
September 16, 2024 at 4:12 PM
Entry #728 in the directory of school IT system problems: we have amended our policy to no longer conform with NCSC security guidelines. Genius, ‘Wise’Pay
September 4, 2024 at 3:43 PM
How might we build the capacity and resilience of institutions and civil society to respond to cyber attacks and so change the incentives around ransomware?
January 20, 2024 at 2:59 PM