Graphic with time along bottom (today to 50 years) and adjusted probabilities above, brought to life with three examples
Impactful climate change graphic from @undrr.bsky.social #probability
Trump:
"NATO has treated the United States very badly. We've never asked for anything. We've never got anything."
Tell that to the families of 850 soldiers from 19 non-US NATO countries who died fighting to defend the United States in Afghanistan - the only occasion Article 5 was ever triggered.
Presented with NHS warnings of a worst case scenario with this years flu - a majority back compulsory working from home and a plurality back mandatory masking. More oppose banning large gatherings or a circuit breaker lockdown, but surprisingly a third & a quarter would back them
Only Germany has done worse public investment wise (as you’ll know if you’ve been on a German train), and they’ve compensated with high private investment, on which front the UK has been bottom of the G7 league table. By miles.
This is a huge step forward alongside the newly launched Financial Inclusion Strategy, and the next step is to make it real. Read our full response: moneyready.org/update/money...
#TalkMoneyWeek #FinancialEducation #MoneyReady #LifeSkills #FinancialInclusion
The government's Financial Inclusion Strategy makes financial education compulsory in primary schools in England, as part of a new statutory requirement to teach citizenship, ensuring that children are supported to develop healthy attitudes to money at an early age. www.gov.uk/government/p...
Matrix showing intersections between seven infrastructure verticals
McKinsey identified opportunities to establish infrastructure ecosystems, where seven infrastructure verticals intersect with one another. www.mckinsey.com/industries/i...
Chart with the title "The rural archetypes can be ranked by their outcomes for residents, with agricultural powerhouses at the top for most outcomes"
McKinsey carried out cluster analysis on rural America, then ranked each archetype by socioeconomic outcomes. www.mckinsey.com/institute-fo...
Supposedly age has replaced class as the big divide in British politics.
For Chart of the Week, we've examined the dramatic evolution of Labour's vote share across the age and income distribution 🧵 ⤵️ buff.ly/2SuQ8TJ
The claim that PR will “let Reform in” is misleading.
Our new publication, "The Temper Trap" by Stuart Donald shows coalition governments neutralise extreme policies.
Under FPTP, Reform is more extreme than its European peers in government & has forced the Conservatives Rightwards regardless.
I've uploaded this year's London Film Festival programme as a spreadsheet. I hope people find it as useful as last year! #LFF #LFF2025 docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Andy Haldane makes the case for "a computer and tutor for every child, a nurse in every school, a career pathway for every young adult and a club for every community."
www.ft.com/content/9cd0...
“Place first, not party first. That’s a better politics, that connects with the country.
I think it’s time for Proportional Representation.” @andyburnham.bsky.social
Delighted to have partnered with @compassoffice.bsky.social for today’s Change: How? Conference! #RadicalRenewal
#Labour4PR 🌹
Policy suggestions include switching to proportional representation, shifting from taxes on labour to taxes on wealth, and investing in record breaking construction of social housing.
Planning Reform Working Paper: Speeding Up Build Out
www.gov.uk/government/p...
“This paper invites views on further action the government could take to encourage a faster build out rate.”
"The noise is in inverse proportion to impact on living standards. The panic has been most frenzied on winter fuel payments, and this is where the PM has now sounded a partial retreat. But the case for restoring universal payments is weak. When Gordon Brown introduced them in 1997, three-in-ten pensioners were in poverty. Since then, pensioner poverty has halved, and seniors are today less likely to be in poverty than the wider population and half as likely as children. "
What should the Government prioritise when tackling its welfare trilemma (means-tesing winter fuel payments, cutting disability benefits and the persistence of the two child limit)?
@ruthcurtice.bsky.social considers the options ⤵️ buff.ly/5ibPBVM
chart showing Just 38 per cent of our rail network is electrified, well below most of our European peers
Most OECD countries have more modern rail infrastructure than the UK.
Electrification is proceeding slowly, averaging just 100 km (0.6 per cent of the network) a year in the last five years. At this pace it would take almost three decades to catch up to the current OECD average.
By pursuing an alternative, pro-equality and tax-reforming agenda, the government could launch a faster programme of renewal than economic growth can deliver alone. @compassoffice.bsky.social
chart showing Share of employed residents paid the minimum wage in 2024, and growth in number of resident employees 2020 to 2025, by local authority: UK.
There appears to be no relationship between changes in employment in local areas and the number of workers on the minimum wage.
This is consistent with, if not evidence of, a lack of significant negative employment effects from recent minimum wage increases.
Read more➡️ buff.ly/zd2MNKO
Rachel Reeves should not turn her spring statement into another budget
The chancellor should wait until the autumn to take any fiscal action, even if forecasts show she is on course to miss her rules by a small margin, says @tompope.bsky.social www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/comment/rach...
This is how it should work. In reality, the media and HM Opposition would have a field day, and there would be an Emergency Budget within a week. Sooner, if interest rates didn't settle quickly.
Casey has been asked to publish an initial report in 2026 including ideas for how to make medium-term improvements.
Final report, due by 2028, to make longer-term recommendations, including on the model of care, organisation of services and funding.
Among workers in bottom hourly wage quintile, likelihood of progressing to higher hourly wage decile in following year, compared to average likelihood (percentage point difference): UK, 2009-2022
Hourly wage progression is negatively associated with being a mother, being older, and having less education.
Among low-income workers, family circumstances can place real constraints on people’s willingness or ability to change job or progress in work.
Could treating local planning like Fantasy Football defeat the NIMBYs?
Click the link below to find out how a Fantasy Football-style platform for Local Plans would give communities more choices over where homes are built, boosting house-building.
https://buff.ly/3B67tJw
Incredible.
Missed this data-packed piece from @resi-analyst.bsky.social last week on UK housing stock. Top charting! on.ft.com/3ABrs2q
How is there still over a month to go until the Chancellor's first Budget?
we can reveal that companies will be able to keep new hires on probation for up to six months under a compromise Labour plan despite an election pledge to give employees “day one rights”
www.ft.com/content/c399...
Things you didn't know you needed: The BFI
London Film Festival 2024 programme as a spreadsheet: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... #LFF2024
The Met Police's inspection report isn't exactly glowing.
