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
http://foundationsofthedigitalstate.com/
and blogs at
digitalpolicy.substack.com
Politician manqué, girl group fan, code monkey
How the government should leave Twitter
by not leaving twitter
digitalpolicy.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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The reaction to the Panorama edit has been nothing short of hysterical. Yes the BBC has some impartiality problems. But its biggest isn't the one you think.
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
The truth about impartiality at the BBC
And the hysteria of the current "crisis"
open.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:22 PM
The reaction to the Panorama edit has been nothing short of hysterical. Yes the BBC has some impartiality problems. But its biggest isn't the one you think.
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
Don't make me tap the footnote to Notes on AI in Foundations Of The Digital State
November 10, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Don't make me tap the footnote to Notes on AI in Foundations Of The Digital State
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was gonna joke that schumer agreed to add ballroom funding to the bill but decided it would be too believable
November 10, 2025 at 6:02 PM
was gonna joke that schumer agreed to add ballroom funding to the bill but decided it would be too believable
Actually Trump trying (and failing) to sue the BBC would be grand
November 10, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Actually Trump trying (and failing) to sue the BBC would be grand
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The other fact that people are ignoring is that Prescott is not some random chap plucked out of obscurity to do an 'independent' report. He's part of the campaign from the start.
The fact that the BBC has made serious culpable errors does not negate the point that there is a real and concerted right-wing media campaign to destroy it. Both points can be true at the same time and the campaign would not end even if the errors did.
November 10, 2025 at 1:36 PM
The other fact that people are ignoring is that Prescott is not some random chap plucked out of obscurity to do an 'independent' report. He's part of the campaign from the start.
Move over Satanic Wedding, new hellmouth in town
hashtag FML
hashtag FML
November 10, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Move over Satanic Wedding, new hellmouth in town
hashtag FML
hashtag FML
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At £5.9bn a year, it's clear the BBC is woefully underfunded given what we expect it do to. E.g. the main three streaming platforms (Netflix, Amazon and Apple) seem to spend about $45bn a year on content production, none of it at all important to democracy. It's time for a £10bn BBC.
November 10, 2025 at 10:41 AM
At £5.9bn a year, it's clear the BBC is woefully underfunded given what we expect it do to. E.g. the main three streaming platforms (Netflix, Amazon and Apple) seem to spend about $45bn a year on content production, none of it at all important to democracy. It's time for a £10bn BBC.
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@richardpope.org does a great job of showing that it's often senior leadership misunderstandings and desire for "big bang comms" that damage good work already in progress (this time on digital ID).
www.rpp.works/ways-of-doin...
www.rpp.works/ways-of-doin...
www.rpp.works
November 9, 2025 at 7:50 PM
@richardpope.org does a great job of showing that it's often senior leadership misunderstandings and desire for "big bang comms" that damage good work already in progress (this time on digital ID).
www.rpp.works/ways-of-doin...
www.rpp.works/ways-of-doin...
Captcha: select all the squares with <ME> in them
November 9, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Captcha: select all the squares with <ME> in them
well folks @opentechcalendar.co.uk is back, if you're OG Tech Community Development in Scotland you know what that means, if ya ain't ya oughta will soon
The rebuild from Covid has been long and slow but things is happening
The rebuild from Covid has been long and slow but things is happening
November 9, 2025 at 7:37 PM
well folks @opentechcalendar.co.uk is back, if you're OG Tech Community Development in Scotland you know what that means, if ya ain't ya oughta will soon
The rebuild from Covid has been long and slow but things is happening
The rebuild from Covid has been long and slow but things is happening
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Just as a matter of complete pedantry on this “internal BBC dossier” story the telegraph have been going insane about for 3 days, the bloke who wrote it was an independent external advisor so how can it be an internal dossier?
November 5, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Just as a matter of complete pedantry on this “internal BBC dossier” story the telegraph have been going insane about for 3 days, the bloke who wrote it was an independent external advisor so how can it be an internal dossier?
The same scam that was used to attack US universities is now being used to attack the BBC - its a nonsense
The UK is being played
The UK is being played
November 9, 2025 at 6:12 PM
The same scam that was used to attack US universities is now being used to attack the BBC - its a nonsense
The UK is being played
The UK is being played
Great read - strong Saddam-rebuilds-Babylon stuff
November 9, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Great read - strong Saddam-rebuilds-Babylon stuff
@carlajeaston.bsky.social putting together our spring programme at ecvs.co.uk and I am coming back to see if you would talk about your journey to fund Since Yesterday - as I promised you I would at the Cast & Crew screening ;-)
Join Edinburgh Cine & Video Society – Film Club
Edinburgh Cine and Video Society is a charity, established in 1936, that supports amateur film making, both digital and analogue, and promotes film appreciation.
ecvs.co.uk
November 9, 2025 at 11:12 AM
@carlajeaston.bsky.social putting together our spring programme at ecvs.co.uk and I am coming back to see if you would talk about your journey to fund Since Yesterday - as I promised you I would at the Cast & Crew screening ;-)
Oh good-oh her father in law pays for GB News, Unherd and the Spectator
did he also buy the Telegraph? or did that get rubbered?
did he also buy the Telegraph? or did that get rubbered?
There’s no daylight between what Candace says here about “the Jews” & what Nazi propagandists & Father Coughlin said about the Jews in the 1930s. Her show is one of the top 5 “conservative” podcasts in the US. She has 5.5 million subscribers on YouTube and 7.3 million followers on X.
November 8, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Oh good-oh her father in law pays for GB News, Unherd and the Spectator
did he also buy the Telegraph? or did that get rubbered?
did he also buy the Telegraph? or did that get rubbered?
0800.NICHE.com
November 8, 2025 at 11:17 PM
0800.NICHE.com
At a do in the Ouij and gettin the bus back to Embra from the Southside and passing the shop June Brides Glasgow and weren't the June Brides the most underrated Creation-Records-Adjacent beat combo of the nineteen eighties?
open.spotify.com/track/4OmPbl...
open.spotify.com/track/4OmPbl...
Every Conversation (Single Version)
open.spotify.com
November 8, 2025 at 10:51 PM
At a do in the Ouij and gettin the bus back to Embra from the Southside and passing the shop June Brides Glasgow and weren't the June Brides the most underrated Creation-Records-Adjacent beat combo of the nineteen eighties?
open.spotify.com/track/4OmPbl...
open.spotify.com/track/4OmPbl...
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It me
New in PN: @donmoyn.bsky.social on "Purge, Merge, and Surge"
“The visible presence of overwhelming numbers of troops in the streets has a psychological component. You display dominance & make examples of people who resist — except instead of surging in Iraq, it’s happening here in American cities.”
“The visible presence of overwhelming numbers of troops in the streets has a psychological component. You display dominance & make examples of people who resist — except instead of surging in Iraq, it’s happening here in American cities.”
Don Moynihan on "Purge, Merge, and Surge"
"Instead of surging in Iraq, it’s happening here in American cities."
www.publicnotice.co
November 8, 2025 at 6:57 PM
It me
when your King Poop jet goes wrong
November 8, 2025 at 7:25 PM
when your King Poop jet goes wrong
Former area MP *still* raging about the Youth Parliament on Twitter Dot Com
November 8, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Former area MP *still* raging about the Youth Parliament on Twitter Dot Com
The word Salary comes from the salt that Roman Soldiers were issued every month to season their food
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Say what ya like about Hitler, buddy, but he always made payroll...
Hegseth: "This is a 1939 moment"
November 8, 2025 at 3:07 PM
The word Salary comes from the salt that Roman Soldiers were issued every month to season their food
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Waaaaaa we did it!
Just woke up from a dream of “oh must remember to do that”, then no… it’s done! Whooop we did it @jocarter.bsky.social
An epic day of #GCCy25
Just woke up from a dream of “oh must remember to do that”, then no… it’s done! Whooop we did it @jocarter.bsky.social
An epic day of #GCCy25
November 8, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Waaaaaa we did it!
Just woke up from a dream of “oh must remember to do that”, then no… it’s done! Whooop we did it @jocarter.bsky.social
An epic day of #GCCy25
Just woke up from a dream of “oh must remember to do that”, then no… it’s done! Whooop we did it @jocarter.bsky.social
An epic day of #GCCy25
Say what ya like about Hitler, buddy, but he always made payroll...
November 7, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Say what ya like about Hitler, buddy, but he always made payroll...