Ratings

Every full teardown ends with a score out of five stars. The score is not a mood: it is the count of documented mistakes in the piece, mapped through the bands below. Each counted mistake is set out in the teardown itself with a citation, so the arithmetic can be checked against the document.

The bands

★★★★★	No documented mistakes. The CLEARED outcome: it does what it says.
★★★★☆	1 to 3 documented mistakes
★★★☆☆	4 to 9 documented mistakes
★★☆☆☆	10 to 19 documented mistakes
★☆☆☆☆	20 or more documented mistakes

Five stars is a real outcome, not a decoration: a document with nothing material wrong gets the CLEARED verdict and the full five, in public.

Best and worst so far

BEST SO FAR

★★★★☆ 4/5

Sixteen qualifications that train teaching assistants lose their public funding from August 2027. The four-year plan for what replaces them never names the subject once.

1 documented mistakes

WORST SO FAR

★★☆☆☆ 2/5

Nobody checked the AI Playbook

13 documented mistakes

The table

Score	Document	Mistakes	Rated
★★★★☆	Sixteen qualifications that train teaching assistants lose their public funding from August 2027. The four-year plan for what replaces them never names the subject once.	1	29 September 2026
★★★★☆	The NCSC says a China-linked hacking campaign uniquely used AI tools to steal data from critical sectors worldwide.	1	9 October 2026
★★★★☆	Ofcom's own advisory says it is investigating four telecoms providers over scam phone numbers, with no link to show which ones.	1	10 October 2026
★★★★☆	The Home Office says modern slavery victims can leave abusive sponsors from today.	1	11 October 2026
★★★★☆	Quora just lost the Online Safety Act's toughest duties, the first change to Ofcom's platform register since launch in June.	1	13 October 2026
★★★★☆	Ofcom decided in June that cyberflashing and encouraging serious self-harm should become priority offences under its enforcement codes.	1	13 October 2026
★★★★☆	This site found Ofcom's gaming advice page crediting PlayStation and Xbox for child safety work neither platform did.	1	13 October 2026
★★★★☆	Every coastal council in England was meant to join a scheme to speed up planning for sea defences and harbour works by 2021.	1	20 October 2026
★★★★☆	The FCA's deputy chief executive told a City dinner that three quarters of firms trust the regulator, and the same share backs its five year strategy.	1	22 October 2026
★★★★☆	The government's Hillsborough Law promises every public servant the same duty to tell an inquiry the truth.	1	22 October 2026
★★★★☆	Universal Credit now pays extra for every child, DWP's own guidance says, since April's two-child limit abolition.	1	22 October 2026
★★★★☆	Promptly, defined as nine months	2	13 September 2026
★★★★☆	Google was ordered to rank UK search results fairly from June 2026.	2	14 September 2026
★★★★☆	The government branded this a "Day 1" right to protection from unfair dismissal.	2	14 September 2026
★★★★☆	Three new crimes joined the Online Safety Act's danger list.	2	14 September 2026
★★★★☆	Named the biggest risk. Rules due in 2027.	2	14 September 2026
★★★★☆	Publishing every algorithm government uses on the public has been mandatory since February 2024.	2	15 September 2026
★★★★☆	The government built a national blacklist to keep risky suppliers away from public money.	2	15 September 2026
★★★★☆	On 30 September the government abolishes the Information Commissioner's Office and hands its powers to a new regulator.	2	16 September 2026
★★★★☆	A Treasury finance standard treats qualified accounts as unusual, the kind of thing that gets an accounting officer summoned before a select committee.	2	21 September 2026
★★★★☆	A Cabinet Office rule tells every Whitehall department to publish, by 30 September each year, how much it spends with small businesses, collated in one place.	2	21 September 2026
★★★★☆	Every department is told to publish a yearly list of its highest-risk analytical models, against a threshold it sets itself.	2	21 September 2026
★★★★☆	The government's cyber security standard lets a department exempt its own arm's-length bodies from independent assurance checks altogether. No guidance published anywhere, including an update from two weeks ago, explains what would justify that choice.	2	21 September 2026
★★★★☆	Ofcom called the spread of non-consensual intimate images urgent in February and promised new rules by summer.	2	23 September 2026
★★★★☆	The Home Office code deciding whether a synagogue or mosque keeps its security funding calls the test necessarily subjective. Two paragraphs later, it tells the same reader the line is clear.	2	29 September 2026
★★★★☆	DWP's new employment fund promises £10 million testing what helps disabled people into work, then a further £50 million guided by the results.	2	29 September 2026
★★★★☆	The review into maternity deaths at Leeds Teaching Hospitals tells staff to follow a duty of candour law that does not exist yet.	2	29 September 2026
★★★★☆	Every UK government department is bound by a mandatory rulebook that names one exact cyber security standard they must meet. The government withdrew that standard in 2023; the rulebook naming it has not been touched since 2021.	2	29 September 2026
★★★★☆	The Department for Education's new small-business spending plan says it has already beaten its 2028 target.	2	1 October 2026
★★★★☆	A planning right built to last three years for schools with crumbling RAAC concrete was due to run out this month.	2	1 October 2026
★★★★☆	Two years ago today, the government told tipped workers they could hold a thieving boss fully accountable through an employment tribunal.	2	1 October 2026
★★★★☆	The official mandate for Baroness Casey's social care commission still promises a report this year.	2	2 October 2026
★★★★☆	The Department for Education's new guidance says the budget schools get for pupils with special needs is meant to be 'sufficient.'	2	2 October 2026
★★★★☆	Ofcom's consultation on the Online Safety Act's identity verification duty closes at five o'clock this evening.	2	2 October 2026
★★★★☆	Ofcom's own gaming advice page says it secured child safety changes on PlayStation through its supervision work.	2	3 October 2026
★★★★☆	A Ministry of Justice pilot gave rape and sexual offence victims free transcripts of their sentencing.	2	6 October 2026
★★★★☆	A speech to a City summit this month credited FCA reforms with 25 new companies on London's Main Market this year.	2	6 October 2026
★★★★☆	The Department for Work and Pensions changed the rule staff use to decide whether a career break blocks maternity allowance, citing a tribunal case.	2	6 October 2026
★★★★☆	Ofcom told industry its own safety-fee invoices would arrive in September.	2	7 October 2026
★★★★☆	Ofcom's guide for parents promises an under-16 social media ban from 2027.	2	8 October 2026
★★★★☆	Parliament passed a law in April 2026 that will require every state primary school to provide a free breakfast club once it takes effect.	2	8 October 2026
★★★★☆	The Department for Education gives every council in England until 6 November to lock in next year's special needs school places.	2	9 October 2026
★★★★☆	A Home Office factsheet says tightening Article 8 rules will save the taxpayer billions.	2	9 October 2026
★★★★☆	Immigration Enforcement's facial recognition policy runs 52 pages on who goes on a watchlist.	2	9 October 2026
★★★★☆	Ofcom fined a porn site £700,000 for a year of ignoring children's safety duties.	2	10 October 2026
★★★★☆	The ICO justifies policing AI agents with one vague, unsourced sentence about OpenAI and Anthropic 'bypassing protections'.	2	10 October 2026
★★★★☆	Complaints about automated nuisance calls almost tripled in three months, the ICO says, and it blames a surge in AI-enabled marketing calls.	2	10 October 2026
★★★★☆	A cladding fund built only for buildings under 11 metres with nowhere else to turn closed for good on 9 October 2026.	2	10 October 2026
★★★★☆	The FCA wants minimum notice periods for illiquid funds, citing lengthy suspensions as proof investors cannot get money back fast.	2	11 October 2026
★★★★☆	Brink's and NCR must sell off two businesses because together they would run over half of Britain's cash machines, the Competition and Markets Authority says.	2	11 October 2026
★★★★☆	A year ago the government promised its record flood defence programme would protect nearly 900,000 homes.	2	12 October 2026
★★★★☆	HM Treasury named six banks to run the UK's first digital government bond this month.	2	12 October 2026
★★★★☆	The Chancellor's growth speech promised new business 'sandbox' powers, delivered through a named Regulating for Growth Bill, ready to deploy next year.	2	12 October 2026
★★★★☆	New language-service contracts for courts and tribunals started on 5 October, pitched as the fix for requests the contracted supplier cannot fill.	2	12 October 2026
★★★★☆	New rules since 5 October are meant to end a cliff edge for supported housing residents who work more hours.	2	12 October 2026
★★★★☆	Ofcom promised itself new crisis-response rules for online platforms would arrive by early Autumn.	2	13 October 2026
★★★★☆	Ofcom credits its supervision work with securing child safety changes on PlayStation and Xbox.	2	13 October 2026
★★★★☆	The CMA's case tracker still shows the Daily Mail owner's Telegraph bid as an open investigation.	2	14 October 2026
★★★★☆	The CMA says a Virgin Media O2 broadband deal cuts three-provider competition from 32% of its network to 18%.	2	14 October 2026
★★★★☆	Ofcom says it is still deciding whether Royal Mail's price rise was fair.	2	14 October 2026
★★★★☆	The FCA promised millions of motor finance claims would be paid out this year.	2	14 October 2026
★★★★☆	Great British Railways got a £151 million Derby headquarters this week, with 450 jobs and 600 apprenticeships promised.	2	15 October 2026
★★★★☆	The CMA fined three firms £6 million this week, calling it proof its new consumer protection powers work.	2	15 October 2026
★★★★☆	The government says it has responded to all 180 recommendations in Lord Leveson's criminal courts review.	2	15 October 2026
★★★★☆	A new crime against nudification apps took effect in June.	2	16 October 2026
★★★★☆	The competition regulator says it gave UK publishers the power to stop Google's AI using their content, as of June 2026.	2	17 October 2026
★★★★☆	Britain's competition watchdog found in July 2025 that Microsoft's cloud licensing harms UK businesses.	2	17 October 2026
★★★★☆	The Home Office's new standards for stalking and domestic abuse perpetrator interventions promise the right intervention for the right person at the right time.	2	17 October 2026
★★★★☆	Ofcom says platforms 'should not drag their heels' on scam adverts that cost Britain £200 million a year.	2	17 October 2026
★★★★☆	Ofcom has eight days left to publish the report Parliament gave it three years to write.	2	18 October 2026
★★★★☆	Ofcom's own enforcement guidance offers a faster process for firms that stonewall its legal requests while children are at risk.	2	18 October 2026
★★★★☆	Ofcom's own evidence names four social media platforms using an age-check method it will not call effective.	2	18 October 2026
★★★★☆	CMA inspectors raided a construction firm investigating suspected bid-rigging on school-roofing contracts; two staff hid a phone rather than hand it over.	2	18 October 2026
★★★★☆	Britain's competition regulator has twice promised, in June and again in August, to look harder at why UK petrol and diesel margins stay historically high.	2	18 October 2026
★★★★☆	The MHRA is consulting on letting schools stock a second emergency allergy device.	2	19 October 2026
★★★★☆	Anglian Water was fined £1.6m for sewage pollution the Environment Agency calls organisational failure.	2	19 October 2026
★★★★☆	A new carbon tax on imported steel, cement, aluminium and fertiliser starts charging businesses on 1 January 2027.	2	19 October 2026
★★★★☆	New Department for Transport guidance tells bus enforcement officers to keep every fixed penalty they issue and spend it on more enforcement.	2	19 October 2026
★★★★☆	New Prevent guidance says there is no proven link between mental illness and radicalisation.	2	20 October 2026
★★★★☆	The Financial Conduct Authority cited 86 percent AI adoption from a survey due out the following week.	2	20 October 2026
★★★★☆	The government's new playbook for testing policy on vulnerable people says it has tried not to be prescriptive.	2	20 October 2026
★★★★☆	A new statutory right lets trade unions into British workplaces from 30 October.	2	20 October 2026
★★★★☆	Employers across Great Britain face a tougher duty to stop sexual harassment, including by customers and clients, from 30 October.	2	21 October 2026
★★★★☆	The measure due to judge this year's secondary school pupils has not been decided yet.	2	21 October 2026
★★★★☆	A new Acas code on trade union time off becomes legally binding in nine days, replacing a version unchanged since 2010.	2	21 October 2026
★★★★☆	A private parking code the government shelved in 2022, after the industry it targets took it to court, finally reached Parliament this week.	2	21 October 2026
★★★★☆	A new Whitehall guide to how your council is held accountable rests heavily on audited accounts as a safeguard.	2	22 October 2026
★★★★☆	Post Office postmasters can finally appeal their £75,000 Horizon payout, for free, with no risk of losing it.	2	22 October 2026
★★★★☆	The Home Office promised police AI would roll out with strong oversight and a public registry of every tool in use.	2	23 October 2026
★★★★☆	Ofcom promised an update on its TikTok child safety investigation in October.	2	23 October 2026
★★★★☆	Ofcom promised transparency notices for the UK's biggest platforms would follow 'soon after' it published its register of major services.	2	24 October 2026
★★★★☆	Ofcom's one power to scan privately sent messages cleared its last legal hurdle on 4 September 2026.	2	24 October 2026
★★★★☆	Ofcom spent two years writing the rule that tells large platforms to open a channel to the police during a public safety crisis.	2	24 October 2026
★★★★☆	The government's own impact assessment values its new private parking code at a net loss to society of £7.95 million over ten years.	2	24 October 2026
★★★★☆	Victims were five days from a new right to challenge a rejected anti-social behaviour case review when the Home Office quietly cancelled it.	2	24 October 2026
★★★★☆	The government has two live timetables for the Employment Rights Act, updated five days before a sexual harassment power takes effect.	2	25 October 2026
★★★★☆	The government paused Companies House's profit and loss filing rule for small firms.	2	25 October 2026
★★★★☆	Ofcom had three years to report on what online content harms children, and beat its own deadline by four days.	2	27 October 2026
★★★★☆	The insolvency chapter, tested	3	12 September 2026
★★★★☆	The performance data almost nobody publishes	3	12 September 2026
★★★★☆	In December 2024 the government set developers a public target: fix 80 percent of their unsafe buildings by July 2026.	3	15 September 2026
★★★★☆	Companies House announced a crackdown on bogus company directors on 18 November 2025.	3	15 September 2026
★★★★☆	Every council in England became legally responsible for enforcing the Renters' Rights Act on 1 May 2026.	3	15 September 2026
★★★★☆	A secret UK order told Apple to build in a way to reach any customer's encrypted iCloud data, anywhere in the world.	3	16 September 2026
★★★★☆	The King's Speech in May promised a bill to fix the law that criminalises Britain's own cyber defenders.	3	16 September 2026
★★★★☆	The Cabinet Office's own rulebook says every government grant shall get a fraud risk assessment.	3	16 September 2026
★★★★☆	The government set itself a 2025 deadline to harden its critical computer systems against cyber attack.	3	16 September 2026
★★★★☆	A government digital strategy set out to get 50 of its top 75 services to a 'great' standard by 2025.	3	17 September 2026
★★★★☆	The regulator wrote to Reddit about its missing child safety checks one day after its own code's compliance deadline passed.	3	17 September 2026
★★★★☆	Parliament gave Britain's environmental watchdog the power to drag a government department to court for breaking the law.	3	17 September 2026
★★★★☆	The law gives every public body 20 working days to answer a Freedom of Information request.	3	17 September 2026
★★★★☆	The government promised more AI growth zones 'this summer.' The fifth did not arrive until the same week ministers cited all five as proof the plan was working.	3	18 September 2026
★★★★☆	The maximum fine for nuisance calls and spam texts rose thirty-five-fold in February, from half a million pounds to seventeen and a half million.	3	18 September 2026
★★★★☆	England's first councils were supposed to be testing the Infrastructure Levy, which replaces developer contributions, by 2025.	3	19 September 2026
★★★★☆	The Data Protection Act lets the Home Office withhold immigrants' own records from them, and the Court of Appeal found that exemption unlawful twice.	3	19 September 2026
★★★★☆	The law governing Britain's £156 billion in subsidies lets the body handing out the money mark its own homework unless the sum tops £25 million.	3	19 September 2026
★★★★☆	The law that tells every council, NHS trust and government department to 'consider' social value also says, in the same breath, that ignoring it changes nothing. Thirteen years on, only central government departments were ever given a version of the rule that actually bites.	3	19 September 2026
★★★★☆	The government's fact sheet on banning social media for under-16s promised a VPN research update 'in July.' The report landed on time, and found VPN users among children are already more likely to run into the harms the ban is meant to stop.	3	19 September 2026
★★★★☆	The Cabinet Office's new rulebook for scoring government contracts on 'good jobs and skills' tells procurement officers to mark bids against sub-criteria that will not be written until the autumn.	3	20 September 2026
★★★★☆	Three years into a legal duty to identify vulnerable customers, the FCA found payments firms with 'very few, or in some cases no' such customers.	3	20 September 2026
★★★★☆	The Magenta Book, the Treasury and Cabinet Office's rulebook for judging whether government policies actually work, was rewritten in May to call registering an evaluation mandatory. The government's own page explaining how to do that, unchanged since December 2024, still calls the same rule optional.	3	21 September 2026
★★★★☆	Ofcom says it made online safety rules "as easy as possible" for small firms. Its own survey found one shut its UK operation down rather than work out how.	3	22 September 2026
★★★★☆	The government's ban on under-16s creating livestreams depends on platforms knowing who is under 16. Ofcom's own audit found none of them checked.	3	22 September 2026
★★★★☆	Ofcom's own report calls Britain's rollout of child age checks 'unprecedented.' The one number that measures whether it actually worked barely moved.	3	22 September 2026
★★★★☆	Every government digital service is told it must be accessible by law. The one time GDS checked in full depth, not a single website or app it tested passed.	3	22 September 2026
★★★★☆	The Cabinet Office abolished most of its spend controls on 1 April 2026 and rewrote its commercial guidance to say so the same day.	3	22 September 2026
★★★★☆	The Cabinet Office cited fraud and error costing the public purse up to £30 billion a year to justify a new power ordering banks to pay it directly from people's accounts.	3	23 September 2026
★★★★☆	The rulebook for a mandatory landlord complaints scheme covering 11 million renters came into force this week.	3	23 September 2026
★★★★☆	The CMA says vet businesses will be held to account by an independent regulator for the first time. The monitoring plan published alongside the new rules says it will only check a practice when somebody complains.	3	23 September 2026
★★★★☆	The Supreme Court rewrote the law on depriving someone of their liberty in June. The only guidance issued since links to a code of practice written in 2008, before the rule it just scrapped even existed.	3	23 September 2026
★★★★☆	The Department for Education pays England's schools 347 million pounds a year for looked-after, adopted and armed forces children. Its own published data does not say which schools got what.	3	24 September 2026
★★★★☆	Every primary school has to report how many Year 6 pupils can swim 25 metres. The Department for Education collects the same figure itself and has never published a national total.	3	24 September 2026
★★★★☆	The Home Office rewrote its privacy notice for the police non-emergency line this week. It still cites a Vodafone policy that never mentions the 101 service.	3	24 September 2026
★★★★☆	HMP High Down nurses hand-poured and mislabelled individual doses of methadone for at least three years before carrying them to the wings, inspectors found.	3	24 September 2026
★★★★☆	Ministry of Justice guidance now presumes eligible male prisoners move to open conditions up to three years before release, and governors can refuse only if the risk is 'wholly unacceptable.'	3	24 September 2026
★★★★☆	Ofcom's own guidance says a chatbot that only talks to you, one on one, is not covered by the Online Safety Act at all.	3	25 September 2026
★★★★☆	Peer review, sign-off and independent audit of government analysis are all optional under the government's own standard for it, only naming someone responsible is compulsory.	3	25 September 2026
★★★★☆	A pregnant woman with no recourse to public funds gets nothing from Healthy Start, but her British baby will qualify from the day it is born.	3	25 September 2026
★★★★☆	The Department for Education has cut every school's provisional free meals payment by 20 percent this term, calling it 'not a reduction in funding'.	3	25 September 2026
★★★★☆	Two of the Ministry of Justice's AI tools publish how likely they are to get a decision wrong. Two more are not on the government's public register of algorithms at all.	3	25 September 2026
★★★★☆	A fraud that ran from 2012 to 2015 cost the Ministry of Justice 22 million pounds, and it took a decade to show up in the department's own accounts.	3	26 September 2026
★★★★☆	Crispin Odey's ban from the finance industry was confirmed on 14 September 2026, for conduct the regulator started investigating on 28 September 2021.	3	26 September 2026
★★★★☆	Eighteen thousand investors landed at ITI Capital in 2020 when their own broker failed.	3	26 September 2026
★★★★☆	A year ago the FCA said one CFD firm had cost 90,000 people 75 million pounds.	3	26 September 2026
★★★★☆	A minister told Parliament in February his department has no power over student housing at all.	3	26 September 2026
★★★★☆	The National Cancer Plan promised new radiotherapy machines would treat 27,500 more patients a year. Five months after publication, a correction quietly turned those patients into treatments.	3	27 September 2026
★★★★☆	The government's Covid Inquiry response says it agrees with all ten of the chair's recommendations on hospital care. One of the ten, in the same document, it says outright it will not do.	3	27 September 2026
★★★★☆	A new tax on housebuilders worth 3.4 billion pounds starts in four days. The government's own guidance and the law on the statute book still do not agree on who gets the discount.	3	27 September 2026
★★★★☆	The government's new strategy to fight money laundering worth more than 100 billion pounds a year lists 50 actions, every one of them dated. Not one of those dates attaches to a number that would show whether the strategy worked.	3	27 September 2026
★★★★☆	The Fair Work Agency calls itself Britain's new single enforcement body for exploited workers. A year after launch, the officers who enforce the minimum wage still work for someone else.	3	27 September 2026
★★★★☆	Prison staff deciding whether they can legally open a prisoner's letter to their lawyer are told to check section 15 of the government's own rulebook. The rulebook stops at section 12.	3	28 September 2026
★★★★☆	At its launch, the government had Jamie Oliver promise new school food standards would come with 'proper monitoring to make sure they're followed'.	3	28 September 2026
★★★★☆	A minister told the Lords the new nature levy would enshrine the rule that developers avoid environmental harm before paying to fix it.	3	28 September 2026
★★★★☆	The Home Office told Parliament it has accepted, in full, every recommendation inspectors made about its flagship border-digitisation programme.	3	28 September 2026
★★★★☆	The Academy Trust Handbook says trusts must recruit qualified accountants as finance chiefs from next year. A one-paragraph letter to the department is all it takes to skip that entirely.	3	28 September 2026
★★★★☆	The FCA opened its gateway to full crypto authorisation today, promising that getting through 'is not automatic'.	3	2 October 2026
★★★★☆	Ofcom's own July report warned that services leaning on a third party's age check might not be doing enough due diligence.	3	2 October 2026
★★★★☆	Ofcom commissioned a 30-person study, then told readers not to treat it as proof its online safety tools work.	3	3 October 2026
★★★★☆	Ofcom warned platforms that missing its 30 September deadline on intimate image abuse could cost 10% of global revenue.	3	3 October 2026
★★★★☆	A 10-year plan to cut heart disease and stroke deaths launched promising over 60,000 events avoided and £1.3 billion saved.	3	3 October 2026
★★★★☆	The Home Office's own guidance admits a torture-survivor protection removed in 2024 is now restored after a legal challenge.	3	7 October 2026
★★★★☆	Ofcom opened a formal investigation into Meta yesterday for launching Instagram Instants without the risk assessment the law requires.	3	7 October 2026
★★★★☆	The government's review of BBC funding says it is 'not considering' a new tax on households.	3	7 October 2026
★★★★☆	The Home Office's case for fast-tracking 1,256 asylum beds at Bicester set a deadline of late August.	3	7 October 2026
★★★★☆	The ICO calls its TikTok fine final and credits an Upper Tribunal ruling as an important precedent.	3	8 October 2026
★★★★☆	Three times in one month, the government updated who may decide the Holocaust Memorial's planning application, citing ministerial changes each time.	3	8 October 2026
★★★★☆	A planning power meant for urgent developments was used to retrospectively legalise Manston's migrant centre, already unlawful for almost four years.	3	8 October 2026
★★★★☆	A 2025 government plan promised a deadline for phasing out failure-prone analogue telecare alarms within months.	3	9 October 2026
★★★★☆	The ICO fined Elderly Aids Ltd £190,000 for bombarding elderly people with 758,053 nuisance calls selling devices meant to stop them.	3	11 October 2026
★★★★☆	Ofcom says nine high-risk websites are now safer for children, crediting its own enforcement work.	3	11 October 2026
★★★★☆	The government's steel strategy, updated yesterday, still promises to find British Steel's owners a solution for its future.	3	15 October 2026
★★★★☆	The government's new cladding Bill exempts developers already bound by its 2023 contract, calling the contract's duties equivalent to its own.	3	15 October 2026
★★★★☆	Ofcom fined a suicide forum linked to over 130 UK deaths £950,000 in May.	3	16 October 2026
★★★★☆	Ofcom's new broadcast guide bands 183 words by how acceptable audiences find them after 9pm.	3	16 October 2026
★★★★☆	Ofcom opened its investigation into X in January after reports that Grok was generating sexual images of children.	3	16 October 2026
★★★★☆	The Covid Inquiry told ministers the vaccine damage payment, frozen at £120,000 since 2007, must rise with inflation now.	3	17 October 2026
★★★★☆	Defra's new Organic Action Plan for England names five outcomes it says will measure success.	3	19 October 2026
★★★★☆	HM Prison and Probation Service promised CCTV across HMP Bure's wings within two years, after inspectors said its absence was hindering investigations into assaults.	3	21 October 2026
★★★★☆	MPs told ministers to force the NHS and the care regulator to prove they are acting on physical activity for older people. The government's own reply softens 'require' into 'consider', skips the care home question, and credits children's sports funding instead.	3	23 October 2026
★★★★☆	The Health Bill gives England's care regulator two more years to prosecute hospitals and care homes for unsafe care.	3	23 October 2026
★★★★☆	The Home Office has made a single charity the UK's only statutory trusted flagger for intimate image abuse, a caseload that grew nearly fifty-fold in a decade.	3	23 October 2026
★★★★☆	Immigration Enforcement published its overdue Holyhead facial recognition data this month, 231 days late.	3	25 October 2026
★★★★☆	The Energy Secretary's decision to approve the Jackdaw gas field says it will protect hundreds of jobs.	3	25 October 2026
★★★★☆	The Chancellor's pre-Budget AI package offers NHS chest X-ray software as its evidence that AI already delivers better public services.	3	25 October 2026
★★★★☆	The government says child maintenance is helping deliver the largest fall in child poverty since records began.	3	26 October 2026
★★★★☆	The government says cutting red tape will save British businesses almost £800 million a year.	3	26 October 2026
★★★★☆	Apple has let UK developers use iPhone contactless payments since October 2024.	3	26 October 2026
★★★★☆	The Prime Minister says every rough sleeper will have a route off the street by Christmas.	3	26 October 2026
★★★★☆	Defra launched a pig CO2-stunning consultation today, a practice its own scientists called unacceptable in 2003.	3	26 October 2026
★★★★☆	Ofcom helped launch a football partnership in February, promising to prevent online racist abuse before this summer's World Cup.	3	27 October 2026
★★★★☆	Defra's new environmental plan presents £110 million for England's protected landscapes as fresh investment.	3	27 October 2026
★★★★☆	The Home Office launches Respect Orders today, citing 3,800 extra officers and an anti-social behaviour lead in every force as proof it is acting.	3	27 October 2026
★★★★☆	The competition regulator says Aldi and Lidl raised no objection to new supermarket land rules.	3	27 October 2026
★★★★☆	A new rule lets the government intervene in any telecoms merger to protect connectivity.	3	28 October 2026
★★★★☆	A new Code of Practice governing trade union recognition takes legal force in two days.	3	28 October 2026
★★★★☆	A duty to help children raised by relatives has covered every council in England since June.	3	28 October 2026
★★★★☆	Jade's Law comes into force this December, two and a half years after Royal Assent.	3	28 October 2026
★★★★☆	New Home Office guidance on violence without ideology repeats the judgement call that failed three times before Southport.	3	28 October 2026
★★★☆☆	Adjusted for bias, and still wrong	4	13 September 2026
★★★☆☆	A government standard requires a gate review before any major project can begin its next stage.	4	17 September 2026
★★★☆☆	The standard governing every part of government defines mandatory in a circle, then says the record of who complied is not meant to be published.	4	18 September 2026
★★★☆☆	Government's own digital standard tells civil servants and their suppliers that Treasury's risk rules are mandatory, not advisory.	4	18 September 2026
★★★☆☆	The Treasury's guide to catching a Post Office style risk before it becomes a scandal just lost four of its practical guides.	4	18 September 2026
★★★☆☆	The department that wrote the UK's National Data Strategy has been abolished. The department that inherited it is being abolished too, and no one has said who gets it next.	4	20 September 2026
★★★☆☆	Whitehall scrapped most of its central spending checks in April, trusting departments to approve hundreds of millions on their own say-so.	4	20 September 2026
★★★☆☆	The Cabinet Office's own playbook calls ageing IT the government's biggest cyber risk, then tells departments to prove resilience with a scheme built to skip it.	4	20 September 2026
★★★☆☆	England's academy trusts must get the government's sign-off from Thursday before advertising a chief executive job paying more than £174,000. A trust does not have to ask at all if its current chief executive reaches that same salary through ordinary annual raises.	4	30 September 2026
★★★☆☆	Inspectors said in 2023 that HMP Risley released convicted sex offenders before they had finished treatment for their risk of reoffending. Its 2026 report says the shortfall continues, and the action plan responding to it never uses those words.	4	30 September 2026
★★★☆☆	Inspectors called HMP Lindholme's drug problem unaddressed in 2023. A prisoner has since died, and the prison's new action plan still does not finish fixing it until 2027.	4	30 September 2026
★★★☆☆	The government has been helping build Universal's Bedford resort while one of its own departments alone decides whether the resort meets its planning conditions. The rulebook meant to keep those two roles apart names no complaints process, no audit and no penalty for breaking it.	4	2 October 2026
★★★☆☆	From today, no council in England can turn away a homeless care leaver by calling it their own fault.	4	2 October 2026
★★★☆☆	Northamptonshire Police closed live Freedom of Information requests for a fire service without telling the people who asked.	4	4 October 2026
★★★☆☆	A reporter asked Derby City Council about roadworks in December 2025.	4	4 October 2026
★★★☆☆	Nottingham's hospital trust missed its first Freedom of Information deadline in December 2025.	4	4 October 2026
★★★☆☆	ACRO, the criminal records processor used by all 43 police forces, left its website unpatched for three and a half years.	4	4 October 2026
★★★☆☆	Two police forces exposed years of sexual-offence and grooming case data hidden inside routine Excel files.	4	4 October 2026
★★★☆☆	An ICO recommendation told Redbridge council to hit 90% on Freedom of Information requests by March 2026.	4	5 October 2026
★★★☆☆	An ICO enforcement notice credits Brighton and Hove City Council with "great strides" clearing its Freedom of Information backlog.	4	5 October 2026
★★★☆☆	An ICO enforcement notice gives King's College London until January to hit 90 per cent on-time compliance with Freedom of Information requests.	4	5 October 2026
★★★☆☆	The rulebook with a dead address	5	12 September 2026
★★★☆☆	The audit that grades itself	5	12 September 2026
★★★☆☆	Checked in Belfast, not yet in Britain	5	2 October 2026
★★★☆☆	This site found a government digital standard's risk rules were mandatory for suppliers who could not reach the guidance behind them.	5	2 October 2026
★★★☆☆	An Information Commissioner audit found West Midlands Police lacks a policy document the law requires, and rated its records management only "Limited" assurance.	5	5 October 2026
★★★☆☆	The Metropolitan Police exposed a stalking victim's new address to the man she was hiding from, and the regulator's own notice says that exact risk then came true.	5	5 October 2026
★★★☆☆	HM Prison and Probation Service reissued its domestic abuse policy this month promising updated statistics.	5	6 October 2026
★★★☆☆	Immigration Enforcement scanned 7,500 faces at a Welsh ferry port and promised to publish the results of every deployment.	5	6 October 2026
★★★☆☆	Solvent, and still a disaster	6	13 September 2026
★★★☆☆	Nine pages, eight mistakes	8	12 September 2026
★★☆☆☆	Nobody checked the AI Playbook	13	11 September 2026