They are 20% of the workforce and the ‘broadest shoulders’ for the purposes of taxation and stimulating/investing in economic growth. They’re funding infrastructure from which they are unlikely to benefit directly. Might different social contracts for each generation be feasible and more appealing…?

So, could be electorally ‘useful’ re Gen Z. But, the bigger impact on perceptions of the social contract is apt to flow from precariousness as it pertains to medium and long term financial planning for middle earners (regular changes to income/asset taxes + lack of resolution to social care funding)

There are some positives subject to how the problem is understood (eg flexible working requested by employees). Even agency work can enable people to accommodate eg caring responsibilities, but it is too often used to save money (eg schools outside of term time) which can exacerbate precariousness.

Thanks - agree - albeit the paper states that 60% of US workforce is paid hourly. The U.K. doesn’t publish such figures but only around 16% of UK jobs are paid at/below the RLW (which is the nearest proxy) and a large % of those jobs are confined to people aged 16-21.

Obvs this is not the same as asking x people with y characteristics (the same) z questions - and the lack of access to sufficiently robust Y diminished the use of exhaust data from “X” when I tried this with social media data - but being able to dive into such trends is, potentially, also, useful.

OK - but could meta data derived from LLMs not be used to better understand what people are most concerned (asking) about at particular points in time and over time and, crucially, how they are ‘framing’ questions to help us understand priorities and opinions in new ways?

Librarians: rejoice!

Presumably, enjoying Handel’s Music for the Royal Fireworks 🧨 Suite?

To your earlier point about care, our report with NCF and it’s LCR members might be of interest - www.chi-zone.co.uk/adult-social...

I’m not wholly convinced we improved the landscape after 1981. But, the higgledy-piggledy concrete carbuncle which has grown up around this World Heritage Site is still, somehow, joyous.

St John’s Co-cathedral, Valetta. Absolutely spectacular. Small wonder the Knights managed to withstand the “Great Siege” - albeit, incurring heavy losses in the process. And, if the history isn’t sufficient in and of itself … there’s Caravaggio’s “Beheading of Saint John the Baptist” in the Oratory.