Thanks, question prompted as fence looks unlikely to survive Storm Amy!

Does it follow that it's worth replacing the garden fence with solar panels or is the cost of the inverter such that it only works at scale?

My dad used to talk about going out on RAF launches from Mundesley at the end of the war to throw unwanted munitions overboard ...

Star Warts

The Williams one is extraordinary ...

Max tedium for minimum useful data

The central platform is a good start but local govt still has to publish grant, spend and contract data separately in a separate format under the transparency code, then there's a new subsidy control database that typically will have to be filled in for a direct award ...

Nice to see a balanced article on procurement. A good place to start would be a proper data strategy to rationalise the hotchpotch of platforms and publication requirements associated not just with procurement but with grants and subsidy control.

Public procurement based purely on price is vanishingly rare for significant contracts ...

Benefits: 1) transparency; 2) better shared data and less dependence on rentiers cleaning our own data and selling it back to us; 3) more compatible with social care law and user choice; 4) more emphasis on contract mgmt; 5) ability to negotiate under frameworks

Much of the implementation cost has already been incurred - training, software changes, new templates, etc. So question now is whether incremental costs and uncertainty are outweighed by the benefits.

How would that help?

Gold Blend to Nescafe captures it beautifully.

Are you concerned about the effect of pubs on railway stations or vice versa?

I think columnists in general should have a term limit of 5 years, and then get some fresh air.

Useful list thanks. Is there any way to follow them all in bulk or do you have to do each individually?