Tom Ebbutt
tomebbutt.bsky.social
Tom Ebbutt
@tomebbutt.bsky.social
Director of Impact @blabuk.bsky.social | Working for a world that works for everyone, within the limits of our planet | Social Market Foundation | Emerging Futures
Public services should be designed to encourage or enable people to behave like citizens. In the private sector, with some welcome exceptions, they design to encourage people to be consumers.
March 23, 2025 at 8:48 AM
It's back.
March 4, 2025 at 5:52 PM
It was a logistical feat to put immigration in place at Amsterdam but it's sorted now. Where there's a will there's a way.
February 21, 2025 at 12:20 PM
January 7, 2025 at 10:28 PM
History as an academic discipline is also pretty good for this - the idea of a teleological improvement in the human condition is far from mainstream there (even fringe?)
December 22, 2024 at 10:34 AM
(Some) LAs build great housing, but their capacity to do so is tiny.
December 12, 2024 at 11:07 AM
The connected question is who are we expecting to do the building. If it's private sector developers, we have to regulate to get outcomes beyond profit maximisation. If it's eg Local Government, we have to build LAs capacity to act as a developer.
December 12, 2024 at 11:07 AM
Would be interesting to see domestic / international pupil split on that
December 3, 2024 at 11:49 PM
Impossible Ideas Inc.
Impossible Ideas Inc. community interest venture company
ideasimpossible.org
November 27, 2024 at 11:15 AM
So I can work for a (perceived) top tier "London" consultancy firm and easily live in Leeds. If I work for a (perceived) top tier "London" law firm it would be very hard for me to live in Leeds.
November 27, 2024 at 10:29 AM
Agreed. But top tier consultants are now able to live / base themselves all over the country in a way they weren't before covid, the lawyers (still) aren't.
November 27, 2024 at 10:27 AM
Agree on law. I think it's a bit different on e.g. management consultancy where there is an increasing amount of remote work / less mgt demand to come in to the office.
November 27, 2024 at 9:48 AM
Recognise it's reasonable to question whether the Tortoise sale is a good thing, but this "the Scott Trust is actually limited company" objection is a nonsense.

The reason for the Trust taking ltd company status is explained here, its objects are locked in etc pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/n...
Guardian-owning Scott Trust to fold after 72 years
Owner of Guardian Media Group – The Scott Trust – has changed from being a trust to a limited company. The move comes 72 years after the trust was created with the object of “securing the financial po...
pressgazette.co.uk
November 26, 2024 at 10:06 PM