defence and security editor. kim, are you at the airport right now? i have just got back to my airport. i ve been at the airport for most of the day. we have been told here by the day. we have been told here by the armed forces in this or that it is slightly, there. is the armed forces in this or that it is slightly, there. is slightly, there. is that right? it is. especially is slightly, there. is that right? it is. especially compared - is slightly, there. is that right? it is. especially compared to i it is. especially compared to yesterday which was a horrible day. we saw four people all women crushed to death in front of us. after that, todayis to death in front of us. after that, today is certainly a lot better. there are fewer crowds and at the moment, there have been well marshalled. the problem is the situation here as you know changes by the day. by the hour. what will happen later on we don t know. nights have been volatile and violent as well. we have to see what
the independent s defence and security editor kim sengupta is in kabul and spoke to my colleague victoria derbyshire about the situation at the airport. i ve just go back to my hotel. i ve been at the airport most of the day, yes. we ve been told here by the armed forces minister that it is slightly calmer there. is that right? it is slightly calmer there i would say now. certainly compared to yesterday, which was a particularly awful day. we saw four people, all women, crushed to death in front of us. after that, today is certainly a lot better. there are fewer crowds and at the moment at least they have been well marshalled, but the problem is that the situation here, as you know, changes by the day and changes by the hour, and so what will happen later on, for example,
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The UK government’s rhetoric about data strategy and economic renewal can be compared with what is happening in the real world.
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The UK launched its National Data Strategy last September, after more than two years of Brexit-inspired hiatus, bafflement, shoulder-shrugging, and pettifogging. Yet just a few months earlier in March, 2020 s Westminster eForum on UK data strategy had presented an alarming picture of rudderless government.
At that event, Gaia Marcus, then UK Head of Data Strategy, said:
We knew that we had the solution [the data strategy], but we weren t clear on the problem. So, back in the Middle Ages of this project, when the team was focusing on the work, I commissioned a call for evidence to actually understand that, if we ve all agreed that the national strategy is the solution to a problem, what actually is the problem?
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