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paulcconnell.bsky.social
Founder @OpenInnovates non-profit, mission-led, innovation with data. Co-founder @TheDataCity mapping the world's economy with data. Also #MDANT Life is for living - let's get on with it.
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England is not a modern country. The graphic below by @guyshrubsole.bsky.social in today's Observer underlines this fact.

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I love this. Such a gently written wtf letter. We've had the full bingo card of WE MUST INVEST MORE IN LONDON over the last week. This sets the scene for the work that's required outside the capital, and that needs investment

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Sheesh

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Here’s some of the background on Extract, which the Prime Minister announced on Monday, plus the detail on how we incubated the proof-of-concept. There’s boatloads more discovery and alpha work to do. Went full techno-realist with the open para. mhclgdigital.blog.gov.uk/2025/06/12/e...

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Spring-watch is ace innit

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RIP Brian Wilson. Here's a playlist of the 50 best songs by The Beach Boys, as selected by Mojo magazine, which is a good way to remember his brilliance open.spotify.com/playlist/50t...

submitted 4 days ago • 14 comments

It’s just good Politics…. You should try having almost every ambitious transport project cancelled for 20yrs

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new: a publishing supernova of hastily commissioned Oasis books is coming to the shelves of Dads and Uncles near you. For @thequietus.com I read three of them. How do they confront what Oasis were for most of their career (I.e. appalling, making bad music)? thequietus.com/opinion-and-...

submitted 6 days ago • 9 comments

We @thedatacity.bsky.social built the @techuk.bsky.social Local Index as Infrastructure which means we can maintain and improve it. techuk-digital-index.thedatacity.com/about/ What should we add or improve?

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

This is great👊🏼 Can I just point out that this is just getting us where we need to be for a sophisticated, cosmopolitan, global economy - which North England is. The establishment of New 21C Institutions to drive growth needs to happen in parallel.

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Heading down to London Village to join in with @techuk.bsky.social at #LondonTechWeek showing off the Digital Index we @thedatacity.bsky.social built for them with our data, obvs the whole UK is doing tech 👊🏼 techuk-digital-index.thedatacity.com/about/

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Climate Change on the 10 O’Clock news… Sheesh We really have made a proper mess of this for our kids… The data has been clear since the 80s yrs, but we’ve faffed about and failed. The false equivalence and denier mob really have mugged us all off.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

This is a really important point 👇🏼

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Translation “London should be the only place to economically succeed”. No other developed country is as centralised as the UK.

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

That @ipprnorth.bsky.social report about Transport infrastructure is well researched and put together. There will lots of #Londonsplaining today. Remember this is about power and the fact that if N England is funded properly those people might have some proper competition.

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The relative underperformance of North England’s economy is a mystery…..

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The relative underperformance of North England’s economy is a mystery……..

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The relative underperformance of North England’s economy is a mystery……

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😬

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#TOTP IKYYK youtu.be/rfNuUl_Pbfo?...

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Come together youtu.be/d0UL-S1cwYA?...

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Amateur hour Sh*tshow Clusterf@ck Grift Klept

submitted 67 days ago • 1 comment

The big transport investments announced today, Inc Trams in Leeds to Bradford are flipping great. #winning 20 yrs too late but hey ho.

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

BIG news for the @BeeNetwork! The Government is backing it with £2.5 billion to become the UK’s first fully-integrated, all-electric public transport system by 2030. 🐝

submitted 12 days ago • 10 comments

Big news for city region region transport today - lots of investment to build out their networks. www.ft.com/content/9e2d... Welcome recognition by government that city region growth is the way to get get broad based national growth. And that metro mayors are the key institution to deliver it.

submitted 12 days ago • 4 comments

London-based Builder[.]ai, once valued at $1.5 billion and backed by Microsoft and Qatar's sovereign wealth fund, has filed for bankruptcy after reports that its "AI-powered" app development platform was actually operated by Indian engineers pretending to be artificial intelligence.

submitted 12 days ago • 8 comments