At last. They’ve done it. The government has unified every snippet of data about itself on a single website. GOV.UK is bland-looking and easy to navigate. The home page tells surfers how Britain is administered.
‘The prime minister runs the government with the support of the cabinet.’
Which is true, I suppose, on a good day.
Those writing dissertations about Nick Clegg will find much to pore over. The DPM’s site reveals, in antiseptic prose, that Clegg ‘works on the full range of government policy’. The headline example is his ‘royal baby response’ which he wrote, edited, revised and finally released on 22 July.
‘News which will make the whole country smile,’ was his definitive view.
This part of the site feels like a fanzine. Colour snaps show the DPM in statesmanlike mode. Clegg reading to children. Clegg gesturing at bored workers. Clegg in front of a London bus whose direction-board reads ‘Destination Talent’.
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