With impeccable timing, this has just hit inboxes from Kyle's tech policy gurus:

Of course it was always thus - I guess from this government we might have (naively TBF) expected it not to be quite so, well, blindingly obvious. And, as you say, likely to get so much worse too.

All the while the tech lobbyists tap a Minister on the shoulder at some otherwise unconnected schmoozey corporate event and - lo and behold! - another concern is chalked up on the industry side of the scoreboard without any of the same evidential demands required of civil society.

The takeaways from that "engagement" are often little more than "thanks for your inputs, we're listening but could you not all just wait to see how things pan out? Tysm. Of course please feel free to provide more information/more evidence/attend more discussions while the panning out takes place".