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.

It's back.

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.

As is this.
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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?)

(Some) LAs build great housing, but their capacity to do so is tiny.

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.

Would be interesting to see domestic / international pupil split on that

Worth having a chat with @dominiccampbell.bsky.social c/f
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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.

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.

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.

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...