Save the date! Next Frontiers 2024 will be taking place on 13th June this year. read more about how the programme is shaping up: jrf.org.uk/imagination-in…

“When it comes to British domestic politics there is nothing, absolutely nothing, that matters more than this”.

Thank you Andrew Marr for setting the context for the 2024 General Election so clearly.

What a walk to start the week.

“When your thinking thoughts pass, you will be in the clear sky of your mind.”
Nawang Khechog

In the next few days, films inspired by A Christmas Carol will be hard to avoid.

Yet looking back on 2023, it’s the opening line of Dickens' novel, A Tale of Two Cities (‘It was the best of times, it was the worst of times’), that feels more relevant. 🧵🔽 (1/20)

The public support inheritance tax cuts/abolition even when told how few estates pay. To dig deeper we tested if people support abolition enough to pay higher income tax. Given that choice only 12% of voters do. In fact people are 2x likely to back lower income tax & higher IHT.

🗣️Our Director of Emerging Futures, Sophia Parker, appeared as a guest on the #AccidentalGods podcast this week to talk about our work to build alternative futures that center ecological and community wealth.

You can listen to the episode below: 🎧🔽

How do we best use the tools we have now to create and support the #emergent change we need?

#AccidentalGods #Podcast w Sophia Parker of
Joseph Rowntree Foundation delves into ways we can support 'inter-becoming' at the emergent edge

accidentalgods.life/building-lifeb…

#WednesdayMotivation #Podcast s

Dear Jeremy Hunt. Our tax system should be fair. The Autumn Statement should raise taxes on us, the super rich. We want it. The public wants it. Our country needs it. Tax our wealth and invest in a stronger, more sustainable Britain. It's the patriotic thing to do.

“There may be a justification for such a remarkable imbalance of rewards, but I’ve never heard it” - excellent piece, and refreshing to see extreme wealth framed (at least in part) as an addiction. we need to look at how we talk - and think - about wealth and what is ‘enough’.

Calling UK policy makers & influencers: we are making available up to 15 places on our 10-week 'Rethinking Capitalism' module running Jan-Mar 2024. Will feature Mariana Mazzucato Cecilia Rikap Jayati Ghosh & Ha Joon Chang & me, plus others. You can sign up here:
ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/publi…

The just economy challenge is no longer about fixing edge failures or adjusting for fairness in the present economy - but recognizing our existing economy is self terminating us and future generations humans and non humans.

It’s requires us to embrace structural reform of how…

But whoever made the mistake, I was very lucky to work in the civil service for over 20 years.

Yesterday it would have been at its best, expertly supporting new Ministers.

Anyway, a good day to re-share these thoughts:

ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/new…

‘Let us struggle together to understand our intersecting histories of violence & oppression. Let us refuse attempts to reach for shallow, dogmatic simplicity—the warmongers’ favourite tactic. We must end these senseless cycles of pain & violence. It ends with us
💔♥️🙏Panthea Lee 李佩珊

‘refusing the weaponisation of complexity’ - this piece captures so much so beautifully. thank you Panthea Lee 李佩珊 for writing it and also for all the links and leads to follow to try to make sense of what is happening.

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It's last day of my 2-year part-time fellowship Joseph Rowntree Foundation so a thread of stuff I've done with fab colleagues (what else to do on last day?!)

Establishing trends in 'deep' poverty darker than headline figs
Morgan Bestwick Katie Schmuecker Peter Matejic

jrf.org.uk/report/going-w…

there are some really exciting things happening in #sheffield atm thanks to the likes of Opus Independents Simon J Duffy Indy Johar and others. submissions now open for 2024’s Festival of Debate💥 festivalofdebate.com/updates/2023/e…