@seaneke.bsky.social
Researcher @re-state.bsky.social
East London. Reforming.
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East London. Reforming.
Views my own
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🚨NEW REPORT: PROCURE AND SIMPLE🚨
Govt spends ~£400bn a year procuring goods & services, but regularly fails to secure value for the taxpayer.
In this report, Re:State proposes a simplified, less risk-averse & more proportionate model, focused on crowding in more suppliers.
Govt spends ~£400bn a year procuring goods & services, but regularly fails to secure value for the taxpayer.
In this report, Re:State proposes a simplified, less risk-averse & more proportionate model, focused on crowding in more suppliers.
November 10, 2025 at 9:10 AM
🚨NEW REPORT: PROCURE AND SIMPLE🚨
Govt spends ~£400bn a year procuring goods & services, but regularly fails to secure value for the taxpayer.
In this report, Re:State proposes a simplified, less risk-averse & more proportionate model, focused on crowding in more suppliers.
Govt spends ~£400bn a year procuring goods & services, but regularly fails to secure value for the taxpayer.
In this report, Re:State proposes a simplified, less risk-averse & more proportionate model, focused on crowding in more suppliers.
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'The Law of Rule'
For this week's Re:Think long read, @jo3hill.bsky.social has written about the challenges of regulatory reform, why the Government's current approach is struggling, and why we're working on it.
re-state.co.uk/rethink/the-...
For this week's Re:Think long read, @jo3hill.bsky.social has written about the challenges of regulatory reform, why the Government's current approach is struggling, and why we're working on it.
re-state.co.uk/rethink/the-...
The Law of Rule: the regulation theory of everything - Re:State
If you are looking for good news, you won’t find it in the British economy. Yesterday’s employment data release continues a familiar trend, with the number of payrolled employees falling, vacancies fa...
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September 17, 2025 at 11:22 AM
'The Law of Rule'
For this week's Re:Think long read, @jo3hill.bsky.social has written about the challenges of regulatory reform, why the Government's current approach is struggling, and why we're working on it.
re-state.co.uk/rethink/the-...
For this week's Re:Think long read, @jo3hill.bsky.social has written about the challenges of regulatory reform, why the Government's current approach is struggling, and why we're working on it.
re-state.co.uk/rethink/the-...
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The UK won’t hit 1.5 million homes without a shake-up - could mayors be the answer?
In our latest Re:Think, Researcher, @seaneke.bsky.social, explores why devolving Homes England’s powers could unlock more housebuilding.
Check it out here👇
re-state.co.uk/rethink/devo...
In our latest Re:Think, Researcher, @seaneke.bsky.social, explores why devolving Homes England’s powers could unlock more housebuilding.
Check it out here👇
re-state.co.uk/rethink/devo...
Devolving to build - Re:State
re-state.co.uk
September 3, 2025 at 9:36 AM
The UK won’t hit 1.5 million homes without a shake-up - could mayors be the answer?
In our latest Re:Think, Researcher, @seaneke.bsky.social, explores why devolving Homes England’s powers could unlock more housebuilding.
Check it out here👇
re-state.co.uk/rethink/devo...
In our latest Re:Think, Researcher, @seaneke.bsky.social, explores why devolving Homes England’s powers could unlock more housebuilding.
Check it out here👇
re-state.co.uk/rethink/devo...
Super sweet to publish 'New House Rules' today w @coryberman.bsky.social & @stkaye.bsky.social, setting out the case for devolving Homes England.
September 1, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Super sweet to publish 'New House Rules' today w @coryberman.bsky.social & @stkaye.bsky.social, setting out the case for devolving Homes England.
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🚨NEW REPORT: 'NEW HOUSE RULES'🚨
Kickstarting housebuilding in England is an enormous challenge.
In this report, Re:State makes the case for abolishing the arms length body Homes England and devolving most of its functions to the emerging tier of Strategic Authorities.
Kickstarting housebuilding in England is an enormous challenge.
In this report, Re:State makes the case for abolishing the arms length body Homes England and devolving most of its functions to the emerging tier of Strategic Authorities.
September 1, 2025 at 6:14 AM
🚨NEW REPORT: 'NEW HOUSE RULES'🚨
Kickstarting housebuilding in England is an enormous challenge.
In this report, Re:State makes the case for abolishing the arms length body Homes England and devolving most of its functions to the emerging tier of Strategic Authorities.
Kickstarting housebuilding in England is an enormous challenge.
In this report, Re:State makes the case for abolishing the arms length body Homes England and devolving most of its functions to the emerging tier of Strategic Authorities.
London & NYC are similarly 'ungovernable', but NYC appears far more effective at cutting through this thicket to get stuff done. Why is this?
- Greater fiscal autonomy is important...
- But so too is NYC's greater ability to embrace the messiness of modern urban governance.
- Greater fiscal autonomy is important...
- But so too is NYC's greater ability to embrace the messiness of modern urban governance.
August 6, 2025 at 1:30 PM
London & NYC are similarly 'ungovernable', but NYC appears far more effective at cutting through this thicket to get stuff done. Why is this?
- Greater fiscal autonomy is important...
- But so too is NYC's greater ability to embrace the messiness of modern urban governance.
- Greater fiscal autonomy is important...
- But so too is NYC's greater ability to embrace the messiness of modern urban governance.
V sweet to publish 'Go big or Go home' w
@stkaye.bsky.social
SAs can work in large cities w big populations & coherent economies.
They don't work in more rural, polycentric areas w low population densities. SAs in these areas are too small and/or incoherent to be truly regional.
@stkaye.bsky.social
SAs can work in large cities w big populations & coherent economies.
They don't work in more rural, polycentric areas w low population densities. SAs in these areas are too small and/or incoherent to be truly regional.
July 17, 2025 at 3:52 PM
V sweet to publish 'Go big or Go home' w
@stkaye.bsky.social
SAs can work in large cities w big populations & coherent economies.
They don't work in more rural, polycentric areas w low population densities. SAs in these areas are too small and/or incoherent to be truly regional.
@stkaye.bsky.social
SAs can work in large cities w big populations & coherent economies.
They don't work in more rural, polycentric areas w low population densities. SAs in these areas are too small and/or incoherent to be truly regional.
Something big is landing tomorrow, with @stkaye.bsky.social & @re-state.bsky.social. 😲
July 16, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Something big is landing tomorrow, with @stkaye.bsky.social & @re-state.bsky.social. 😲
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We read it so you don't have to!
Check out our snap analysis on the 10 Year Plan - highly ambitious but minimal on delivery. But nevertheless some interesting ideas in there.
Read below 👇🔗
re-state.co.uk/react/react-...
Check out our snap analysis on the 10 Year Plan - highly ambitious but minimal on delivery. But nevertheless some interesting ideas in there.
Read below 👇🔗
re-state.co.uk/react/react-...
Re:Act: 10 Year Health Plan - Re:State
re-state.co.uk
July 3, 2025 at 5:34 PM
We read it so you don't have to!
Check out our snap analysis on the 10 Year Plan - highly ambitious but minimal on delivery. But nevertheless some interesting ideas in there.
Read below 👇🔗
re-state.co.uk/react/react-...
Check out our snap analysis on the 10 Year Plan - highly ambitious but minimal on delivery. But nevertheless some interesting ideas in there.
Read below 👇🔗
re-state.co.uk/react/react-...
Wrote about the treatment of place in the recent FFR & IS.
Govt should be commended for centring place in their policy agenda. But this needs more nuance, moving beyond a dichotomy of areas with significant needs vs areas with significant potential. Can Whitehall deliver this?
Govt should be commended for centring place in their policy agenda. But this needs more nuance, moving beyond a dichotomy of areas with significant needs vs areas with significant potential. Can Whitehall deliver this?
With the recent release of the Industrial Strategy and Fair Funding Agreement, Researcher, @seaneke.bsky.social, has explored their treatment of 'place', and the nuances between 'need' and 'potential'
June 25, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Wrote about the treatment of place in the recent FFR & IS.
Govt should be commended for centring place in their policy agenda. But this needs more nuance, moving beyond a dichotomy of areas with significant needs vs areas with significant potential. Can Whitehall deliver this?
Govt should be commended for centring place in their policy agenda. But this needs more nuance, moving beyond a dichotomy of areas with significant needs vs areas with significant potential. Can Whitehall deliver this?
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🚨NEW PAPER 🚨
Today we publish the next paper in our Hospital of the Future series - 'Hospital as a service, not a building'.
For everyone but the most high-risk, complex patients, attending a physical hospital building should be a thing of the past.
Today we publish the next paper in our Hospital of the Future series - 'Hospital as a service, not a building'.
For everyone but the most high-risk, complex patients, attending a physical hospital building should be a thing of the past.
May 22, 2025 at 7:24 AM
🚨NEW PAPER 🚨
Today we publish the next paper in our Hospital of the Future series - 'Hospital as a service, not a building'.
For everyone but the most high-risk, complex patients, attending a physical hospital building should be a thing of the past.
Today we publish the next paper in our Hospital of the Future series - 'Hospital as a service, not a building'.
For everyone but the most high-risk, complex patients, attending a physical hospital building should be a thing of the past.
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"The problem in Britain today is that when those trade-offs involve risk, we too often default to the status quo, and the consequences are becoming severe."
There is no alternative to a radical rewiring of Whitehall.
@chriscurtis94.bsky.social makes the case 👉
re-state.co.uk/publications...
There is no alternative to a radical rewiring of Whitehall.
@chriscurtis94.bsky.social makes the case 👉
re-state.co.uk/publications...
May 19, 2025 at 4:17 PM
"The problem in Britain today is that when those trade-offs involve risk, we too often default to the status quo, and the consequences are becoming severe."
There is no alternative to a radical rewiring of Whitehall.
@chriscurtis94.bsky.social makes the case 👉
re-state.co.uk/publications...
There is no alternative to a radical rewiring of Whitehall.
@chriscurtis94.bsky.social makes the case 👉
re-state.co.uk/publications...
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The social contract is broken, argues @profdonnahall.bsky.social - to remake the State we must rebuild that contract in partnership with citizens
re-state.co.uk/publications...
re-state.co.uk/publications...
May 19, 2025 at 3:18 PM
The social contract is broken, argues @profdonnahall.bsky.social - to remake the State we must rebuild that contract in partnership with citizens
re-state.co.uk/publications...
re-state.co.uk/publications...
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Former West Midlands Mayor Andy Street argues devolution is the route to growth...
"our country is the most centralised outside North Korea – it’s as true as it’s absurd"
re-state.co.uk/publications...
"our country is the most centralised outside North Korea – it’s as true as it’s absurd"
re-state.co.uk/publications...
May 19, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Former West Midlands Mayor Andy Street argues devolution is the route to growth...
"our country is the most centralised outside North Korea – it’s as true as it’s absurd"
re-state.co.uk/publications...
"our country is the most centralised outside North Korea – it’s as true as it’s absurd"
re-state.co.uk/publications...
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A key theme running through our essay collection is devolution.
@andyburnham.bsky.social is first up making the case for an even more ambitious agenda from Gov.
The centre cannot hold. Read what needs to come next...
re-state.co.uk/publications...
@andyburnham.bsky.social is first up making the case for an even more ambitious agenda from Gov.
The centre cannot hold. Read what needs to come next...
re-state.co.uk/publications...
May 19, 2025 at 2:14 PM
A key theme running through our essay collection is devolution.
@andyburnham.bsky.social is first up making the case for an even more ambitious agenda from Gov.
The centre cannot hold. Read what needs to come next...
re-state.co.uk/publications...
@andyburnham.bsky.social is first up making the case for an even more ambitious agenda from Gov.
The centre cannot hold. Read what needs to come next...
re-state.co.uk/publications...
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Brilliant to have @claire-ainsley.bsky.social making the case for a better State in our essay collection marking the launch of our new name
READ her full article, & 22 others, here: re-state.co.uk/publications...
READ her full article, & 22 others, here: re-state.co.uk/publications...
May 19, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Brilliant to have @claire-ainsley.bsky.social making the case for a better State in our essay collection marking the launch of our new name
READ her full article, & 22 others, here: re-state.co.uk/publications...
READ her full article, & 22 others, here: re-state.co.uk/publications...
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"The years ahead must be ones not of managed decline, but of renewal. It's time to be bold. It's time to remake the State. Re:State: welcome back."
Read former Cab Sec Lord Sedwill in our essay collection 👉
re-state.co.uk/publications...
Read former Cab Sec Lord Sedwill in our essay collection 👉
re-state.co.uk/publications...
May 19, 2025 at 11:17 AM
"The years ahead must be ones not of managed decline, but of renewal. It's time to be bold. It's time to remake the State. Re:State: welcome back."
Read former Cab Sec Lord Sedwill in our essay collection 👉
re-state.co.uk/publications...
Read former Cab Sec Lord Sedwill in our essay collection 👉
re-state.co.uk/publications...
Super exciting to launch our new name today, with an all-star line up writing some excellent pieces about the need for radical reform👇 👇
To mark becoming Re:State, today we've published a collection of short essays by leading thinkers, all making the case for bold action to remake the State
What an honour to have this incredible line up involved
READ the collection here: re-state.co.uk/publications...
What an honour to have this incredible line up involved
READ the collection here: re-state.co.uk/publications...
May 19, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Super exciting to launch our new name today, with an all-star line up writing some excellent pieces about the need for radical reform👇 👇
Great to be up at the Darlington Economic Campus yesterday - read our big takeaways below👇
Yesterday we hosted our Beyond Whitehall conference at the Darlington Economic Campus
It was great to hear from leaders in the public and private sectors discussing all things growth
Policy Directors, @jo3hill.bsky.social and @stkaye.bsky.social, have written a blog with key takeaways from the day
It was great to hear from leaders in the public and private sectors discussing all things growth
Policy Directors, @jo3hill.bsky.social and @stkaye.bsky.social, have written a blog with key takeaways from the day
May 8, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Great to be up at the Darlington Economic Campus yesterday - read our big takeaways below👇
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How does policymaking survive in an age of automation?
Our blog today, by @patrickking.bsky.social, looks at the future of what he calls the 'policy-industrial complex'👇
reform.uk/comment/the-...
Our blog today, by @patrickking.bsky.social, looks at the future of what he calls the 'policy-industrial complex'👇
reform.uk/comment/the-...
The policy-industrial complex - REFORM
reform.uk
April 24, 2025 at 8:01 AM
How does policymaking survive in an age of automation?
Our blog today, by @patrickking.bsky.social, looks at the future of what he calls the 'policy-industrial complex'👇
reform.uk/comment/the-...
Our blog today, by @patrickking.bsky.social, looks at the future of what he calls the 'policy-industrial complex'👇
reform.uk/comment/the-...
Great to write for Inside Housing about the importance of further empowering mayors if we are to meet the 1.5 million home target 👇
www.insidehousing.co.uk/comment/the-...
www.insidehousing.co.uk/comment/the-...
The key role mayors can play to drive housebuilding
Mayors need to be empowered if we want to tackle the housebuilding crisis, says Sean Eke, a researcher from thinktank Reform
www.insidehousing.co.uk
April 22, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Great to write for Inside Housing about the importance of further empowering mayors if we are to meet the 1.5 million home target 👇
www.insidehousing.co.uk/comment/the-...
www.insidehousing.co.uk/comment/the-...
Wrote about London Councils' proposals for the future of London governance.
Could a combined authority-esque model work for London? Or do we need to think bigger? 👇
reform.uk/comment/a-ca...
Could a combined authority-esque model work for London? Or do we need to think bigger? 👇
reform.uk/comment/a-ca...
A capital conundrum: how to govern London - REFORM
reform.uk
April 10, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Wrote about London Councils' proposals for the future of London governance.
Could a combined authority-esque model work for London? Or do we need to think bigger? 👇
reform.uk/comment/a-ca...
Could a combined authority-esque model work for London? Or do we need to think bigger? 👇
reform.uk/comment/a-ca...
Great to see this out today. Devo & LGR are bringing welcome change to local govt. But below the CA/LA level there's a growing democratic gap opening up at the neighbourhood level.
This risks further eroding the social fabric & worsening institutional trust.
How should we address this?!👇
This risks further eroding the social fabric & worsening institutional trust.
How should we address this?!👇
📍NEW REPORT: LOCAL, ACTUALLY📍
Local government reform means that there is a growing gap between citizens and the decisions that affect their lives.
This report sets out proposals to build a new hyperlocal governance layer, and help all of England's neighbourhoods flourish.
Local government reform means that there is a growing gap between citizens and the decisions that affect their lives.
This report sets out proposals to build a new hyperlocal governance layer, and help all of England's neighbourhoods flourish.
April 2, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Great to see this out today. Devo & LGR are bringing welcome change to local govt. But below the CA/LA level there's a growing democratic gap opening up at the neighbourhood level.
This risks further eroding the social fabric & worsening institutional trust.
How should we address this?!👇
This risks further eroding the social fabric & worsening institutional trust.
How should we address this?!👇
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📢NEW REPORT: BUILDING STATE CAPACITY FOR ECONOMIC GROWTH
The Government have fired the starting gun for deep reform of the State.
To respond to the challenges we face and unlock growth, they must now go further. Our report published with @labourgrowth.bsky.social offers the blueprint👇
The Government have fired the starting gun for deep reform of the State.
To respond to the challenges we face and unlock growth, they must now go further. Our report published with @labourgrowth.bsky.social offers the blueprint👇
March 31, 2025 at 7:03 AM
📢NEW REPORT: BUILDING STATE CAPACITY FOR ECONOMIC GROWTH
The Government have fired the starting gun for deep reform of the State.
To respond to the challenges we face and unlock growth, they must now go further. Our report published with @labourgrowth.bsky.social offers the blueprint👇
The Government have fired the starting gun for deep reform of the State.
To respond to the challenges we face and unlock growth, they must now go further. Our report published with @labourgrowth.bsky.social offers the blueprint👇
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📢NEW REPORT: DESIGNING A NEIGHBOURHOOD HEALTH SYSTEM
Delivering on government's ambition of proactive, neighbourhood-centred care will require serious devolution of power and resources to local leaders.
Our report offers a roadmap to help policymakers turn vision into reality.
Delivering on government's ambition of proactive, neighbourhood-centred care will require serious devolution of power and resources to local leaders.
Our report offers a roadmap to help policymakers turn vision into reality.
March 25, 2025 at 7:05 AM
📢NEW REPORT: DESIGNING A NEIGHBOURHOOD HEALTH SYSTEM
Delivering on government's ambition of proactive, neighbourhood-centred care will require serious devolution of power and resources to local leaders.
Our report offers a roadmap to help policymakers turn vision into reality.
Delivering on government's ambition of proactive, neighbourhood-centred care will require serious devolution of power and resources to local leaders.
Our report offers a roadmap to help policymakers turn vision into reality.