Human error appears to have played a role in the partial power outage that disrupted the Super Bowl last Sunday in New Orleans.

WSJ: Device Setting Triggered Super Bowl Outage

The chancellor's partial redesign of benefits as tax credits has proved to be a costly and error-prone administrative nightmare, so abstruse that a casual observer can be forgiven if they suspect that obfuscation was one of the main objectives of the reform.

BBC: Ruth Lea on the welfare state