Following his 'look-at-me, I'm-a-geezer-innit' admission that he has slept with up to 30 women, Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg could be facing another, more politically relevant set of demons from his past. And we're not talking about that time he was observed switching off Question Time so he could… read more…

More ID madness: the British Computer Society reckons huge amount of data held by government departments is just plain wrong: Research by IT specialists found 4 per cent of the population - almost two million people - had discovered incorrect information stored under their name by Whitehall or local authorities.… read more…

Yesterday we kicked Gus O'Donnell for cracking down on blogging in government, so it was good to see Tom Watson (in a, yes, very good speech on government and technology) defending Civil Serf at the Tower 08 conference yesterday. It was less good to see him trumpeting the latest badge… read more…

In the wake of Civil Serf, the Times is saying Sir Gus O'Donnell is planning a Whitehall crackdown on bloggers and social networking: Sir Gus will shortly issue guidelines to tell officials whether they can start up blogs or use social networking websites such as Facebook and YouTube, and even… read more…

Is Tom Watson, inveterate blogger and newly promoted permanent secretary, going to take over as the Government's Internet bod? Consultant Simon Dickson thinks so, and also ponders what this might mean for Watson's attractive attack-dog mentality on his website. Watson's already using his site to ask for people to suggest… read more…

We love this: Iain Dale claims Gordon Brown has sent him four separate friend requests on Facebook. So, assuming El Gordo doesn't use Facebook himself, someone must be doing it for him. So why would that someone assume Iain Dale would ever accept a request from El Gordo? And why… read more…

We were going to write a long, thoughtful post on government IT, bringing in our own experiences from the land of private technology and web media, and it was going to be really good. But then bloody Dizzy Thinks wrote it instead. His point is this: until government IT is… read more…

The Times is reporting that our brave boys are not being paid because of, yes, IT failures: Problems are so widespread that members of the Special Boat Service recently complained about the pay delays to Lord Boyce, the former chief of defence staff, when he visited them on the front… read more…