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"There could be work to repurpose underused local buildings, in exchange for greater community involvement." > Heavy agree with a lot of the ideas here and some really interesting thoughts around funding.

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This is excellent. How do we cultivate the right conditions for healthier communities? Some clarity & practical vision here👇

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I think about this quote a lot. It's from Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr, and was chosen by Jane Jacobs to be the epigraph for her wonderful book, The Death and Life of Great American Cities.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Fun question for policy people. What were the defining policies of the 1997-2010 Labour government? The ones that cut through and became emblematic of their agenda and values. (In a good way, no snark!)

submitted 8 days ago • 5 comments

A reminder about how much the Brexiteers cared about fishing before it became a talisman for their idiotic campaign. Nigel Farage attended only 1 of 42 meetings when he was appointed to the EU fisheries committee www.google.com/amp/s/descri...

submitted 10 days ago • 45 comments

You wouldn't know it from today's newspaper front pages screaming "betrayal", but new YouGov polling finds that 66% of British people now want the Government to deliver a closer relationship with the EU, compared to just 14% who don't

submitted 11 days ago • 57 comments

"UN warns 14,000 babies could die in Gaza in next 48 hours without aid" When exactly are the international community going to do more than wring hands and make sad faces? Israel is violating international norms and rules of war. It is indiscriminately targeting civilians inc a million children

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

This will be great 👇 Two pioneering teams in the public sector sharing the work they’ve been doing.

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Also: turn off social media and get out into the community. The vibe is pretty much literally the opposite. Visit a community hub/garden/retrofit scheme/library/kitchen/clothes swap/etc. (And then pop back briefly and tell us about it!)

submitted 14 days ago • 2 comments

“I am ashamed to have shared a parliamentary platform with them. Ashamed to have trusted them. Ashamed to have called them friends. Farage is no leader – he is a coward and a viper. I feel deeply embarrassed that I ever thought he was the man to lead." FOR GOD'S SAKE GET OFF THE FENCE, MAN!

submitted 16 days ago • 4 comments

Today, the Covid Inquiry heard how Boris Johnson lied to the British public about the UK's ability to Test & Trace. Those in power knew that a lack of planning and underinvestment had left the country unprepared, and they tried to cover it up. Our loved ones paid the price.

submitted 18 days ago • 6 comments

So pleased we’ve identified foreign carehome workers who do the toughest jobs for fuck all money as the big problem with the country. Was worried it might be someone else.

submitted 19 days ago • 9 comments

It’s incredible that the President of the United States is openly flirting with suspending Habeas Corpus, disappearing people left and right, arresting judges and politicians, accepting ludicrous bribes from foreign countries, and people are still trying to normalize this shit.

submitted 18 days ago • 476 comments

This is really excellent. Too many pertinent points to pull individual quotes out, but should be read by anyone and everyone working on the 10 year plan for the NHS. Change isn't driven by structures, it's led by people.

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

We loved these hopeful, helpful reminders from @jamestplunkett.bsky.social on letting the intelligence and innovation at a neighbourhood level be the driver of change at the centre 👇

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Can we make neighbourhoods the engines of public sector reform? Some reflections linked to the govt's Test & Learn initiative and my recent piece on the vitality at the edges of the system. 👇

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Some thoughts sparked by a great event in Leeds yesterday on neighbourhood health and the UK government's Test, Learn and Grow intiative. How do we make neighbourhoods engines of change? medium.com/@jamestplunk...

submitted 22 days ago • 2 comments

I’m playing around with an idea: how could you take the principle of ‘seek forgiveness, not permission’ and adopt it in the relationship between the centre and local government? 1/n

submitted 23 days ago • 5 comments

Around two-thirds of all adults in the UK are living with excess weight and obesity. But small changes to our diets can make a big difference to obesity rates at a population level. We analysed food purchasing habits to show what small changes to the food we buy might look like. bit.ly/3YxsIwk

submitted 24 days ago • 2 comments

Hackney’s nature recovery work is so brilliant. It shows how environmental work can come together with community-building. This is the Middlesex Filter Beds which is just a small example. An old water treatment plant recently re-flooded to create an urban wetlands. 1/n

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

Important story for Canada (and for the world, because it's happening everywhere): Canadians bombarded with rightwing content on Musk’s X ahead of election - on.ft.com/4lRM6hK via @FT

submitted 35 days ago • 4 comments

Another quick share of this because surely Easter = chocolate eggs + systems change

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An astonishing headline reporting on new observations from a team led to Nikku Madhusudhan claims they’ve found ‘hints of life’ on a planet orbiting a dwarf star some 124 light years away. What’s going on? (1/n) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... 🔭 🧪

submitted 44 days ago • 27 comments

Dotan Halevy on X A message from a friend in Gaza. Does anyone care? "Gaza is being silently eradicated. The markets are empty The displaced are sleeping on the streets Children and women are hungry The elderly are dying from a lack of medicine and medical supplies Gaza is hungry Gaza is thirsty"

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'The edges' are something I've been thinking about quite a bit, after a conversation with a someone working at the dynamic edge of civil society. This is well worth your time, particularly the section discussing ways we can strategically support this stuff to usher in a new (complex, messy) system

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Wow! The number of @bsky.app users just passed 34 MILLION! 👏 LETS DO THIS!

submitted 57 days ago • 282 comments

Another quick share of this for weekend readers 👇

submitted 83 days ago • 1 comment

Tried to get help from the NHS and then social care on two separate issues over the last two days. Brings home the system breakdown we’re seeing. Both basic things - getting test results, and getting financial support that is a legal entitlement. Both essentially dysfunctional. 1/

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"The net zero sector is growing three times faster than the overall UK economy, analysis has found, providing high-wage jobs across the country while cutting climate-heating emissions and increasing energy security." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

submitted 96 days ago • 14 comments

🚨BREAKING CROSSPOST AFTER DDOS ATTACK Donald Trump Was Recruited by the KGB Under Codename ‘Krasnov’ Claims Former Soviet Spy Chief A former senior KGB chief claims Trump was recruited by them in 1987 due to his role as a prominent US businessman www.bylinesupplement.com/p/breaking-c...

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Could you please RT? @samfr.bsky.social @jamestplunkett.bsky.social @dxw.com 💥💥 Thursday 27th of February 💥💥 Our 3rd event is Miriam Levin from Demos, on 'Involving citizens in policymaking' and Sarah Crandall from DSIT, on 'The new GDS'. At the MoJ or online. Register here : buff.ly/42MOZcf

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Musk, Vance & Trump all misrepresent democracy. When they say “democracy”, they mean a free-for-all with no rule of law, where the winner takes all. When Europe says “democracy”, we mean proportional representation, collaborative politics, citizen rights, and agreed guide rails guaranteed by law.

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Interesting and nuanced discussion on this morning’s Farming Today. I continue to believe there’s a way for the Government to achieve its objectives more effectively & that won’t cause the break-up of family farms. https://buff.ly/42YfwDz

submitted 105 days ago • 12 comments

Let’s keep writing and sharing pieces like this. Not to do so is to acquiesce with the great threat of our age. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 111 days ago • 9 comments

Obvious by now that even if governments can't say it the rest of us can, this is a US administration whose destructive lunacy will extend slightly randomly across more or less everything, and which leaves survival as the only real objective for those outside.

submitted 113 days ago • 6 comments