The Wardman Wire

On the Wardman Wire we’ve been covering the “Child Benefit Data Loss” story, and today for our weekly Hot Issue column we will do a roundup of (some of) the coverage on the blogs and papers.

We will be having 2 articles - one from the Thunderdragon covering the news, and one from me (Matt) looking at the organisational impact from a professional IT Project/Programme Manager viewpoint.

Watch this space.

And I’ve banned any puns on “Darling”. Because it’s my blog and I can.

• Resign with Grace, Darling. BANNED.
• Move over Darling. BANNED.
• Good-bye Sweetheart. BANNED.
• Good night, Darling. BANNED.
• Skip to the Loo, my Darling. BANNED.
• Watch the Wall, mY Darling, as the gentlemen go by. BANNED
• You need to be a better actor, Dahling. BANNED
• And Peter Pan flew away with Mr and Mrs Darling’s Children. BANNED

But I did find this rather good quote in Peter Pan. Wearing my political hat with my tongue in my cheek, I am tempted to commend it to the Chancellor:

“I ought to have been specially careful on a Friday, Tuesday” she used to say afterwards to her husband, while perhaps Nana was on the other side of her, holding her hand.

“No, no,” Mr. Darling always said, “I am responsible for it all. I, George Alistair Darling, did it. MEA CULPA, MEA CULPA.” He had had a classical education.

They sat thus night after night recalling that fatal Friday Tuesday, till every detail of it was stamped on their brains and came through on the other side like the faces on a bad coinage.

Tags: inland revenue, alistair darling, chancellor, gordon brown, child benefit data loss, child benefit, data security, data protection

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