Systemic and leadership failures at so many levels it’s hard to digest

all governments become frustrated by regulation. But the answer is looking at regulations on their merits, to see if they are still necessary or fit for purpose, not treating as a macho numbers game. And recognising bad deregulation has massive costs.

Received today. I am STILL super supportive of the The British Academy allocation scheme (Hetan Shah) - and congratulations to all the successful projects! Well done! Not giving up on this project- onwards and upwards 😀✈️

It is not hard to see why the British public has low trust, both in corporations, and in government (not because of Grenfell but because of what Grenfell represents). And why people want change so badly, but don't think any politician/party will deliver it.

Workers share of global GDP has fallen by 1.6 percentage points since 2004, with nearly half of that drop taking place since 2019 on.ft.com/3TfxqME

US, EU and UK are all expected to sign the Council of Europe’s convention on AI today. Fairly light touch but suggests a bit of high level convergence on.ft.com/3XgJfU5

Vaccines are estimated to have saved 150 million children over the last 50 years ourworldindata.org/data-insights?… Our World in Data

William Gladstone ‘held some cabinet meetings in this room, today known as the music room.’ If you read this blog by Living London History | Jack Chesher I reckon you’ll be tempted to come visit our building for Open House on Sunday 15 Sept livinglondonhistory.com/secrets-and-st…

The term ‘too close to call’ is rather overused but seems fair for the US Presidential election on.ft.com/3AUSHVx

The Economic and Social Research Council is offering around £1m for someone to conduct the World Values Survey in Great Britain for 2025 to 2027 ukri.org/opportunity/wo…

I really enjoyed talking to the Secretary of State for Science Peter Kyle about the value of humanities and social sciences research. As someone with a PhD in geography he absolutely gets this!

I'm proud to have served on the board of the Sir Lenny Henry Centre for Media Diversity. It's great to see their growing influence including having supported the BBC in doing more on this agenda bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/20… Sir Lenny Henry Centre for Media Diversity

You can bike between the hottest and coldest places in the universe in a couple days.

Very interesting column from Gillian Tett - the pushback against ESG is not necessarily a reversion to a Friedmanite concept of shareholder primacy. Instead we are seeing a battle about which stakeholders should be prioritised on.ft.com/3B1TNi6