What I find maddening about the crutch of 'we should be *affordable* homes' is that the reason a special category of subsidised homes are required is because... there's not enough homes, which pushes house prices up!

The Observer asked me for my thoughts on moving from opposition politics to government as part of a piece looking ahead to the (probable) transition ahead.

theguardian.com/politics/2024/…

In our latest research we applied our case study synthesis methodology & learnings from a recent scoping review to analyse 10 case studies from Spirit of 2012’s #creativity based projects & draw out the pathways that support wellbeing: whatworkswellbeing.org/blog/creative-…

The UK Government is considering giving more power to state-funded faith schools, proposing to increase legal discrimination based on religion...

We think this is just plain wrong. Agree?

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Somebody has been doing silly things with the COMMONLY KNOWN AS box

EVENT: Growth: A Reckoning.

Join us to discuss how we should rethink economic progress, as we mark the publication of the new book by Daniel Susskind. With our panel of Polly Mackenzie, Jonathan Haskel & Bobby Duffy

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Before you watch this clip, I urge you, I BEG you: please try to imagine the wrongest way possible to pronounce “tzatziki” first, because all of your hair will be blown off your head

The jaw-dropping mess of UK higher education is starkly revealed by a series of news stories all on the Times Higher Education website in the last week or so:

1.) There are job cuts right across the sector (44 universities and counting): timeshighereducation.com/news/portsmout…

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Key lessons from interviews with Ed Balls Harriet Harman Polly Mackenzie Oliver Letwin Jonathan Powell Nick Macpherson Kate Fall & more..

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Creative Industries make up 6% of our economy: more than car and oil industries together. They employ 2.3million people. To cut funding is fudge-brained, cack-hearted thinking pitched very much at the highest level of economic self-harm. theguardian.com/education/2024…