Last year, I helped build and scale a new Design team in the Canadian government under very scrappy conditions. 7 understatements I learned by doing design together 🧶: 1. The design process rarely feels structured, or finished.

“Some of the cleaners are homeless: they’re working six days a week, full time, and sleeping at a bus shelter at night.” I spoke to four young RMT members from across the board about why they are striking this week and why we should all support them dazeddigital.com/politics/artic…

1/ Having been promised an energy price freeze, millions will be shocked when hit with a 25% rise in fuel bills in October. 5 million kids risk being pushed into poverty, with charities having to stop feeding the hungry so they can help the starving. We have to act. [THREAD]

Love this, particularly 'collect things to show, as you go along' - find it very useful to regularly update teams on what's coming out of research sessions with users

On Larkin, home and the importance of elsewhere when trying to understand Northern Ireland and the DUP. My latest👇 unherd.com/?p=466276

They're out early! 📊🐣 Political #Attitudes results of the 2022 NI Life&Times Survey #NILT ARK are released today for the week that’s in it. We asked Qs on identity, constitutional future, the B/GFA, & trust in political actors.   Here’s a thread on what’s what - 1/8

Let’s talk! Great opportunity to join Royal Borough of Greenwich as a Senior Delivery Manager. *Work on projects that truly make a difference *Grow our community of practice *Be part of a vibrant and nurturing culture *Hybrid working

With thanks to University of Oxford's John Fell Fund Oxford History, I’m excited to launch the next phase of my project Conflicted Identities: Irish Diaspora Activism during the Northern Ireland Conflict. Combining intergenerational oral histories and archival research (1/3)

🚨NEW REPORT: Perspectives on the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement How is it viewed in NI and beyond? Via interviews & focus groups across communities in Northern Ireland, politicians, civil servants & experts Alan Renwick & Conor J. Kelly investigate. ucl.ac.uk/constitution-u…

My interview with Roy Foster: Irish reunification ‘is nearer than I would have thought it a couple of decades ago’. The historian on generational shifts, WB Yeats and Seamus Heaney, and why Brexit has been ‘one of the great shocks and horrors of my life’. irishtimes.com/culture/books/…

(QT as a reference, not a dunk) I don't think the election is the big sensory shock. I think the Tories being out of office post-election, and Labour being the party in government, will be the big sensory shock, as much as we all know (or should know) it's coming

So what will now change? I think for the first time in 14 years we have a government that isn’t actively trying to make things worse. Lines on charts that have been going up will stop going up. Lines on charts that have been going down will stop going down…