Richard Pope

@richardpope.org

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I wrote a book on public services: https://londonpublishingpartnership.co.uk/books/platformland-an-anatomy-of-next-generation-public-services/ It’s time to share the benefits of digital with the public properly.

Screen showing direction to Defra Platformland workshop
Screenshot of operating patterns.org
black hut on a shingle beach with yellow green flower in foreground
Almbun cover for David Bowie and Peter and the Wolf
British gardening community next to the uk digital gov community
screenshot of the job page on civil service jobs
Sure — here’s the same logic, rewritten in a more old-school, explicit, block-structured JavaScript style:&10; • no arrow functions&10; • no one-line if statements&10; • no ??&10; • no spread syntax&10; • clearer variable naming&10; • everything bracketed and stepped through&10;&10;Nothing functionally changes.
Comic strip from the Benonshowing Musk and Bezoa shooting footballs out of cannon and saying "don't let them past Jeff, we need the space"
Digital bookings are social objects - diagram shows booking enabling things like transcription and checking codes&10;&10;Digital bookings extend relationships over time - diagram shows two timelines one activities spread over time
A timeline for preventative healthcare
Rope handle for walking stic. Blue deck chairs in background
Black and white photograph of tabby cat on wooden floor
Red sign for the bus cafe - delicious food at reasonable prices!
The driving test email. Gov.uk branded
Qr code singup for land talks 1
Me in blue top with medal
Milton Keynes marathon bib number. 2203.
At Clement Danes with cherry blossom
Green parakeet in pink blossoms
This Tablet marks, with as much accuracy as can be attained the place where Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford, stood in this hall during the impeachment for High Treason brought against him before the House of Lords, upon the accusation of the House of Common
Pugin tile. Blue and red
Buds on willow branches
Screenshot of text: He went on to publish The Rule of Law (2010), a popular book that won the Orwell Prize. In it, he set out eight principles of the Rule of Law: (1) The law must be accessible and so far as possible intelligible, clear and predictable. (2) Questions of legal right and liability should ordinarily be resolved by application of the law and not the exercise of discretion. (3) The laws of the land should apply equally to all, save to the extent that objective differences justify differentiation. (4) Ministers and public officers at all levels must exercise the powers conferred on them in good faith, fairly, for the purpose for which the powers were conferred, without exceeding the limits of such powers and not unreasonably. (5) The law must afford adequate protection of fundamental human rights. (6) Means must be provided for resolving, without prohibitive cost or inordinate delay, bona fide civil disputes which the parties themselves are unable to resolve. (7) The adjudicative procedures provided by the state should be fair. (8) The rule of law requires compliance by the state with its obligations in international law as in national law. Lord Bingham's book is now also available as an Audiobook.
Large video screen on walkway to Excel Centre advertising the ARC conference.
Scruffy looking dvsa buzzer
An orange printed Strava route on a real Christmas tree with a crocheted bunny in the background
Network rail cleaning robot.
Arch next to the church that once led to London Bridge
Screenshot from Keir Starmer speech with the following highlighted: Harnessing its power to rethink services… Rather than replicate the status quo in digital form.
CKCD cartoon about opener e, repurposed so the who stack is dependent on a proof of bebfut letter
government as a platform stack diagram (register, trust & consent, common platforms, services)
Page from Platformland with 'efficiency is a trap' highlighted
Me looking exhausted
Tower of London with foggy sky skrapers in background
Unbundling a government app into tasks credentials journal payments etc
Ai between the public and public servants. Ai alongside. Ai between public servant and case management
platformland #1 in public policy new releases in USA ahead of Boris Johnson
Graph showing number of unique user interfaces for paper forms (low) branching web forms (more) AI and data generated (loads)
Sign saying 'not a door'
Chips on red table with vining at and royal Albert fock in background
Train departure board for liverpool
Build your ideas slide from SDingov
"The school booking system has a very sensitive login process. The details you enter must be exactly how we have them recorded on our system"
Richard Pope is a birder and life-long naturalist who taught Russian literature, culture and history before retiring. He writes historical fiction about the fur trade, the voyageurs, and the First World War.
Page from shorthand dictionary
Diagram of rules as code from book
Screenshot of Amazon chart with Platformland at #32