Fun fact: which UK town/city saw the biggest jobs growth over the last decade or so? By coincidence the same town has one of the best strategies to end poverty by 2040 ...luton2040.co.uk

Touching the void on the most breathtaking ridge of the Dolomites😱

I've written a little piece on how the new government will actually govern and why governments have to be both story-tellers and plumbers, with a particular focus on how to get strategy and missions right. geoffmulgan.com/post/poetry-pr…

Lots of confusion and head-scratching in Europe about how to prepare for Donald J. Trump following his @JDVance1 pick. At ECFR we have been thinking about this for a long time. Thread 👇 1/8

Many thanks Harry - getting this right isn't easy, so we need more serious discussion of the practicalities & choices.

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Excellent Scottish government analysis of tech for civic participation (strengths & gaps) gov.scot/publications/m… feeding into a challenge for innovators to help fill the gaps (initially, on data and AI) civtech.scot/civtech-10-cha…

Le toujours stimulant Geoff Mulgan pour Demos Helsinki estime que les gouvernements n'ont pas besoin de plus de données mais d'améliorer leur gouvernance, le partage d'information et la démocratie : demoshelsinki.fi/julkaisut/gene…

I've written a piece for Demos Helsinki proposing a framework - 'Generative Shared Intelligence' - for how governments should work in the 2020s, faced with complex, unpredictable challenges & the need to collaborate with many partners. geoffmulgan.com/post/generativ…

Wales is showing the world that truth matters, promising legislation next year that would make it unlawful for politicians to knowingly lie, thanks to the leadership of Adam Price 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏳️‍🌈 theguardian.com/politics/artic…

Fascinating analysis of what some consider the US' most successful foreign aid programme of the last half century, why economists opposed it, and the (quite complex) lessons to be learned asteriskmag.com/issues/05/pepf…

A nice account of Save the Children's 'common approaches' framework for transferability of 'what works', and how this combines with innovation: evolvingimpact.substack.com/p/3-a-less-com…. Echoes some of the examples in the piece I did a few months ago: theippo.co.uk/transferabilit…

I’ve a piece in Times Higher today on the strange invisibility of university leaders & why they should be more courageous & present in today’s great arguments about truth. They shouldn’t only talk about money & fees: they also have moral responsibilities. timeshighereducation.com/blog/time-quie…

I’ve written on fixing a key missing part of government’s growth plans – the vital role of adoption & diffusion in productivity - & how this reflects gaps in the commentariat’s knowledge base. bit.ly/4e6IovJ John Van Reenen Torsten Bell Josh Simons MP Martin Wolf

Spot on. AI straddles science/engineering & invention/ use (unlike eg pharma, aerospace etc) so UK strategy has to address these in parallel (with adoption strategy particularly focused on sectors like construction where usage levels remain ultra-low).

This is very very good. One for all ministers to read and think deeply about.

As I point out 'recent advances in economics don't feature in 'media economics' - how news media cover the economy (focusing on finance, interest rates, spending, pay, employment rates etc but rarely touching on knowledge or adoption...)' - why this is such a policy blind-spot

Big congratulations to Fran Sanderson & team for the launch of Figurative last night, linking arts, investment & social impact (building on years proving sceptics wrong). nesta.org.uk/project/figura… A link here to a piece I wrote on how we got to this point: geoffmulgan.com/post/impact-in…

I'll speak later this week at #MethodsCon with SPARC, Professor Alison Park & others on the future of social science. Ahead of it here is a piece on the case for sharper social science & testable theories geoffmulgan.com/post/uselessly…

I'd be interested in your takes on the state and prospects of social science theory. Is it better to be usefully wrong than uselessly right? Ziyad Marar David Halpern CBE Tim Harford Academy of Social Sciences Will Hutton