‘She will not be affected by the budget, for she is a horror older than time itself, and she was not in the 50p tax band.’

‘It’s really an impressive system, if you couldn’t give a damn about whether Britain is a pleasant place to live or not. If your ideal scenario is a country dotted by gated communities full of Croesus-rich suburbanites, surrounded by a great roiling ocean of resentful wage slaves and feral scumbags, then the present government’s strategy is working like a charm.’

‘Large companies, for understandable reasons, are uncomfortable with the impression of slave labour created by the threat of benefits removal.’

‘Why can’t Government talk like a human?’ On HMRC’s somewhat hostile approach to communication.

‘People who had moved into Bermondsey street alongside the Ticino bakery, which has been there for decades, if not centuries, complained that there was a noise at 4 o’clock in the morning because people were baking bread.’

How government procurement tends to favour overcomplicated, expensive, inappropriate solutions.

So true.

The report proposes ‘to turn [...] infrastructure over to the selfish mismanagement of special interests who want to be sure that their buggies won't be crowded off the digital byways.’

There’s inaccessible public data, and then there’s idiocy. This is the latter.

Over 1000 government datasets, apparently.

innovate.direct.gov.uk’s first stab at opening up data. They are going in the right direction, but need a little hand-holding.

A ‘directory of those so-called charities that receive substantial funding from either the UK or EU governments.’

‘It was only when some neighbours [...] wrote to [the Standards Commissioner ...] that he agreed to open an inquiry.’

Now can we get rid of this ridiculous, archaic, unrepresentative institution, please?

Because she wants to read all our emails.

Oh dear. Looks very ill-conceived and unworkable.

‘The single most pernicious threat to liberty today is humanity’s natural tendency to misunderstand the statistics of rare events’

I love it!

Anyone who still believes 'nothing to hide, nothing to fear' is a moron. Government agencies aren't competent enough to be trusted with our information.

Venal bastards.