'Being 'awakened' to life in different shoes to your own is one of the joys of being a human being and always was.'

Love this comment from Civic Future's Pamela Dow – her response to 'woke' being used as 'bad-faith shorthand for the culture war': civilserviceworld.com/in-depth/artic…

Join us and Civic Future for this fascinating event on the future of the Special Relationship. Sign up below.

🔔❗️ Miss out on our Soft Power discussion with Helen Ramscar, Alexander Evans and Ollie Ryan Tucker? 👀 👀

Catch up here:
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Had a great time last week putting forward the critical case against soft power at Civic Future with Helen Ramscar, Alexander Evans, and Munira Mirza

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Tickets still available for this eve’s @Civic_Future event: What is the role of soft power today? (LDN) with Britain’s Persuaders co-author Helen Ramscar; national security researcher Ollie Ryan Tucker; diplomat and prof LSE Alexander Evans (@aiaevans) civicfuture.org/event/what-is-…

📢📢 Last chance to secure a ticket to our Soft Power event at the Art Workers' Guild tomorrow night❗️❗️

RSVP here: partiful.com/e/tEfNbpcq9sPD…

📢👀 An increasing number of voices are calling into question the utility of soft power. Join us next week as we ask why! 👀📢

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It's been fantastic to be involved in the txp Progress Prize!

We enjoyed reading the excellent submissions.
Congratulations to:

🥇 Rian Chad Whitton
🥈 Alec Thompson
🥉 Ashna Ahmad, Ben Hopkinson, Daniel Timms

🚨TxP PROGRESS PRIZE WINNERS 🏅

Delighted to announce the winners of the Progress Prize, in collaboration with Civic Future and The New Statesman Spotlight.

Here is a thread + link on the winning blogs 1/10 🧵txp.fyi/progress-prize

📢🔔 What is soft power and how is it wielded today?

Join us on March 26 for a discussion with Helen Ramscar, Alexander Evans and Ollie Ryan Tucker❗️❗️

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⌛️🚨 Civic Future Fellowship applications close TODAY 🚨⌛️

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🚨🚨 Want to *do something* and break Britain out of stagnation? Send in your application to become a Civic Future Fellow. Applications close TOMORROW ⌛️⌛️

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It is a Power to Change and We're Right Here: the campaign for community power double act with Charlotte Fordhall Organic Farm at #Restitch24 as we ask how can we strengthen trust in local and national politics and give communities a sense of agency over their futures?

🔔🚨‼️ From Reagan and Thatcher, to Bush and Blair, Post-Imperial Britain’s foreign policy has often gone hand in hand with America’s. Should that be the case?

We are partnering with Reaction to discuss.

Join us!

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Thrilled to be back at The Clink Charity for this year’s policy lunch 🍽️

An incredible group, important cause fascinating conversation, DELICIOUS food & superb speeches by CEO Yvonne Thomas & Pamela Dow of Civic Future

If you haven’t eaten at The Clink, then book yourself in!

Who is your favourite contemporary thinker that deserves more mainstream attention and why? Let us know in your Civic Future Fellowship application. You have until Sunday at 11pm. ⌛️🚨

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📅 ⏰ Civic Future Fellowship applications close this Sunday. Three terms of philosophy, geopolitics, and policy, and an international field visit. All offered at no cost to Fellows. Take a look at our application page to apply. ⌛️🚨

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Civic Future is great. Apply to the Civic Future fellowship if you want to make the UK a better place. civicfuture.org/fellowship/

I recommend this very, very highly. Munira Mirza was an incredible mentor to me in #10, and she also has an amazing team supporting her at Civic Future.
If you want to improve the world through public service, please consider this. I cannot imagine better mentors than them.