All set for our final webinar before the summer - with @jo3hill.bsky.social and @gracewyld.bsky.social looking back on a year of Labour administration and discussing the impact of mission-based government on the civil service. You can watch us here: m.youtube.com/watch?v=oXtQ...

Intrigued by this in newly-published OECD research around how public in different countries perceive societal risks. Suggests the UK public are more open to migration than the OECD average, more keen on UBI, but less keen on investing in skills
Full report: www.oecd.org/en/publicati...

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I'm not sure the announcements on their own speak to a rightward/populist shift. Politicians slamming bureaucracy and quangos is nothing new - this from a 2010 BBC news article www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-poli...

Tickled by this description of aubergine in a 1980s vegetarian cookbook

Very different work environment today...chairing a day-long conference on AI in the public sector with IBM, featuring a robot dog and scale model of a quantum computer

A colleague sent his pic of me at working away at the Civil Service Awards last night and I love how unconcerned I am by the grandeur.

The Civil Service Choir is sounding beautiful as ever at the 19th annual Civil Service Awards - always a great evening to celebrate the work of civil servants across the country