UK spending watchdog refuses to sign off government accounts [FREE TO READ] National Audit Office criticises ‘material and pervasive’ gaps in public sector audits

Ten years ago Eric Pickles gleefully abolished the Audit Commission, the state-run body that audited accounts and of Local Authorities.

Today the NAO refused to sign off Govt accounts because of massive audit backlog.

QED. 1/2

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There's something quite liberating about having zero followers over here - feels like the early days of Twitter and being able to retweet stuff purely for my own amusement.

I wonder what the first big BlueSky event will be, where we all come together and enjoy something as a community. Will it be better than the night that we learned David Cameron shagged a pig? That was great fun.

Q: What happens when you overpay for a social media platform, drive away most of your advertisers, alienate half its users, making it worth less than a third of what you paid for it within a year?

A: You get put in charge of government efficiency.

I am very tempted to go back to my roots on here and post exclusively about the House of Lords

to help people transition from Twitter, I've made a starter pack of blue-tick Nazis:

Twitter is a currently registered trademark of X Corporation.

Going to do a quick thread of my fellow @thetimes.com reporters who are on BlueSky and why you should follow them 👇

For any other news and politics refugees, this is the place to start.

A refreshing balm of familiar faces.

I care. bsky.app/profile/scot...

rare to have a social network where the CEO isn't the main character and we'd like to keep it that way

but for the record, @jay.bsky.team is the CEO of bluesky, jack dorsey is no longer on the board and he owns 0% of the company

Has anyone invented a trustworthy app where we can cross post to multiple platforms at the same time?