What civil servants (mis)use the Internet for on work time

According to the BBC News website the other day, the Department for Transport (DfT) has disclosed the 1,000 sites visited most often by staff while at work.

Belly dancing, Doctor Who and the Roman Empire are just some of the interests of civil servants as revealed by their web browsing habits.

To see the BBC News article (by Victoria King) click here.

To see the actual report by the DfT click here.

The work blogger and a World Cup campaign

According to The Times today England's chances of landing the 2018 World Cup has been dealt a severe blow by a work blogger!

Some details:

The first indications that a storm was brewing were made public more than a month ago.

But only the most eagle-eyed internet observer would have stumbled across the anonymous blog post.

“I am a single thirtysomething from London,” it began.

“I have been working as a Whitehall civil servant since 2002.”

What followed were claims that the author was friends with a former Labour minister.

“Mr T” worked in a “high-profile position”.

Yesterday it emerged that Mr T was in fact Lord T — David Triesman — the chairman of the Football Association.

What was more, the blogger, Melissa Jacobs, had secretly taped the peer, also the head of England’s 2018 World Cup bid, making a series of ill-judged remarks that swiftly became his undoing.

See Melissa Jacobs: the civil servant blogger with ‘beautiful eyes’.