“only 39 per cent [of pupils] said they had felt safe at school every day in the past week.
Incredibly depressing figures

You've heard the podcast - now you can see the show. Tortoise's Trendy podcast is being recorded live on May 8 when Rachel Wolf and I will discuss the fallout from #LocalElections2024 .
tortoisemedia.com/thinkin/trendy…

As political qual has become much more complex and challenging, Public First has shifted significantly towards immersive research. Read James about our approach here. publicfirst.co.uk/changing-our-a…

NEW BLOG for Public First:

Politicians are intensely unpopular these days, and so, we wanted to figure out who the public would rather have in positions of leadership.

What kind of people does the 🇺🇸 public want to see run for office?

Read more here: pfdatablog.com/blog/who-do-am…

In this week's #Trendy from Tortoise, Rachel Wolf and I discuss with @LSE_London's Tony Travers London's changing demography, economics and politics over the last 50 years. pod.fo/e/232561

Voters in England and Wales will elect councillors, mayors, London Assembly members and police and crime commissioners.

In the latest episode of Trendy, Sir John Curtice (What UK Thinks: EU) and Rachel Wolf look at what these elections tell us about the next general election?

I think this is the first time Martin Wolf and I have both been on film together (since he also stays resolutely behind the camera at family events). Not quite the Freedmans yet, but baby steps.

a good sign your country is too centralised: local elections are treated as a national story and a verdict on a national government.

Rob has been a consistently honourable and dedicated politician, and I'm very sorry that he won't be in the Commons after the election.

With local elections in May and a gen elec likely this autumn, this week on Trendy from @Tortoise Rachel Wolf and I discuss the past, present and future of election campaigning with Prof Kate Dommett. Kate dispels many a journalistic myth! podfollow.com/trendy/episode…

I very much enjoyed the chance to chat to Sir John Curtice and Rachel Wolf on
Tortoise's Trendy podcast about election campaigning. If you don't subscribe, find it here: open.spotify.com/episode/1A5iSZ…

Was so lovely to talk to Amy Mount about climate on her wonderful new podcast.

Absolutely brilliant to see the Guardian cover our new Public First deep dive into the many many differences between Britain's political and economic outlook in 1997 and in 2024.

Analysis by @scottcorfe, commentary by Tom Hamilton

theguardian.com/politics/2024/…

Selfish gene (Dawkins)
Genome the autobiography (Matt Ridley)
and
Guns, germs and steel (Jared Diamond) were why I chose natural sciences.

I decided I needed a project* for the rest of my maternity leave… so here’s Political Heat! Would be great if you gave it a follow. Got an exciting cast list for the first few episodes - watch this space 👀

*in my personal capacity

In this week's Trendy podcast from @Tortoise Rachel Wolf and I discuss with Paul Johnson the post- #Budget2024 prospects for the economy and the fiscal finances before and after #Election2024 . pod.fo/e/226ffc

Thank you to techUK for letting me chair a truly fascinating panel on deepfakes and their likely impact on elections.

New modelling by Public First released today. A great joy to work with former colleagues at Publishers Association to better understand the future potential of the sector.

Nobel-winning Economist Angus Deaton on how economics misled him on nearly all the big public policy Qs our times -- and on the IMF website to boot!

Interesting sign of how ideas are moving, even when politics isn't, much as in Britain of the 30s

imf.org/en/Publication…

It's been abundantly clear for a while that you can just go around public institutions and museums in the UK and attack the artwork and getting off with a slap on the wrist at best, and this is the outcome.