£26m squandered

An interesting piece in the Independent this morning which leads with the government's disasterous folly into the IT industry.

According to the paper,£26m has spilled out of government coffers

the total cost of Labour's 10 most notorious IT failures is equivalent to more than half of the budget for Britain's schools last year. Parliament's spending watchdog has described the projects as "fundamentally flawed" and blamed ministers for "stupendous incompetence" in managing them.

and as its leader says

The words "IT" are commonly associated with modernity, progress and efficiency. And this is no doubt why ministers and civil servants so readily and unquestioningly commissioned such lavish projects. Yet what they have evidently been buying all these years is not any of these things but good old-fashioned snake oil.

Maybe one to keep an eye on