I had a chance to listen to Lord Carter at the event in Birmingham yesterday. He’s a very fine speaker, but more importantly was evidently across this report and this brief. It’s clearly something he’s been immersed in.

It was interesting to hear him say clearly that Digital Britain is about changing relationships, shifts in power – he does get the democracy side of it.

Would have been good to have kept him as a minister. Shame.

I too have only looked at Chapter 8, after a quick skim of Ch 7 (the one on security). There’s still much discussion of setting up pilots and exploring the options, and not enough of just doing stuff that everyone (ie us!) know should be happening.

Still, some progress, I guess.