An interesting article on the BBC site today. It is all to easy to blog away criticising any part of government or the “establishment” in general without ever stopping to make well thought through suggestions for a different approach.
Substitute OS for government/establishment and perhaps some of their most vociferous critics should be reading this article. Interestingly Mathew Taylor (Tony Blair’s retiring strategy advisor) whose views are quoted in the article is leaving to head up the Royal Society for the Arts who recently hosted the very vociferous Free Our Data debate