"the consequences of running a system on hot for too long are so tangible, that the case for resilience can no longer be ignored" Great article Loic Menzies!

Thrilled that Nigel Ball will be joining us University of the Arts London next week. Our new social purpose lab will help us on the journey to maximising the positive impact our university has for people and planet.

If you missed the new report from Nigel Ball and I that came out on Thursday- here’s a quick twitter thread to get you up to speed…

“There is an urgent case for shifting the focus of policy towards prevention and resilience” >> nice summary of Nigel Ball & my Blavatnik School of Government Cambridge Assessment Network report from the team at CfEY, alongside four over important policy highlights from the last week.

Excellent post from Sam on why we don’t get the policies that seem so obvious. Among other things he flags spending rules as a barrier to preventative policy, something Nigel Ball & I grapple with in this recent report, along with some potential solutions golab.bsg.ox.ac.uk/knowledge-bank…

Important new report from Sam Freedman & Rachel Wolf flagging, once again the need to adjust the dial on the “efficiency versus resilience” - the theme behind Nigel Ball & my recent Government Outcomes Lab Cambridge Assessment Network report golab.bsg.ox.ac.uk/knowledge-bank…

Director of our new Social Purpose Lab, Nigel Ball writes for Pioneers Post about impact measuring. Find out more ↓ bit.ly/3pb3buw

Very sorry to be missing this

Not necessarily a third category of spending, but a subset of capital spending (big upfront cost; long tail of benefits) - as Loic Menzies and I describe in our report on "Efficiency and Resilience" bsg.ox.ac.uk/research/publi…

This is very good. Our urge to reduce life's complexity to solvable problems has run out of road. Not everything has a technocratic solution - logic is not omnipotent. There are other ways of finding meaning - philosophy, wisdom, spirituality - and they have been crowded out.

Why impact investors need to stop marking their own homework - a debate piece from me and @My_impact_is in Pioneers Post - with thanks to Dr Daggers for inspiring the thoughts! pioneerspost.com/news-views/202…

Can anyone with sound economics explain why we don't fight inflation with tax increases? Would have the same effect of dampening demand while improving public finances. Is it because this wouldn't affect bond markets and therefore the value of the £?

Looking back over Nigel Ball & my report on rewiring the state for resilience in prep for saying a few words Demos event on prevention with Ben Glover, Polly Curtis et al later. Optimistic that our 5 ideas in 4 areas could be a starting point for reform golab.bsg.ox.ac.uk/knowledge-bank…

Neatly summed up by the aphorism "privatise the gains, socialise the losses"

We're very excited to have Nigel Ball, the Director of the Social Purpose Lab at University of the Arts London, joining us as one of our #keynotespeakers at #ukesconf23. The line-up just keeps getting better! Click here to find out more and register to attend: lnkd.in/e3fWWbU4

Great to catch up with The Whitehall & Industry Group partners at Oxford University Government Outcomes Lab Blavatnik School of Government on our work for cross-sector collaborative leadership to improve public policy outcomes. Looking forward to launching our new report in September - watch this space! #collaborationatwork