📺Watch former The Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock on The News Agents discussing how our FPTP electoral system has led to 'consistent division' among the anti-Conservative majority. 👇

🤝At the next GE we must #WinAsOne and build a coalition to deliver real democratic renewal.

In what moral universe can this be the right thing to do: the lower the life expectancy of a local area in 2010-12, the greater the cuts to government funding in the subsequent years. Was this a deliberate policy to increase health inequalities?

Otto Scharmer Presencing Institute wrote an excellent piece on Philanthropy 4.0 focusing on transformative systems change. It informs our work with philanthropy at Iswe Foundation and our strategy for coalition building for a permanent Global Citizens' Assembly.

medium.com/presencing-ins…

If you’d like to hear about our plans for launching a Global Citizens’ Assembly at the UN Summit of the Future in September ✅ join the event at 15:00 CET today 👌

UK political parties should agree a code of conduct for using GenAI in elections:
1) Don't use AI generated materials to mislead voters
2) Be transparent when GenAI is used
3) Don't amplify misleading GenAI materials
4) Create clear guidelines
demos.co.uk/research/open-…

In my experience that's only controversial in Whitehall. It's evidence based common sense in reality. And it's not just about democracy it's about spending money more effectively & transparently. Local gov needs to be a lot more local and do a lot more government.

As we plan for launching a permanent Global Citizens' Assembly at Un Summit for the Future. Reviewing 2021 Global Citizens' Assembly for #COP26 . So many astonishing stories of people rising up despite everything. Humbling. Beautiful and at times incredibly sad 🩷💛💙💔

I really needed this 🧵 🙏🙏 Rebecca Solnit

Slowly we see a new generation of #civictech projects. Here’s a nice example.

'The UK is not the US.'

Read some of the key takeaways from our recent academic conference on polarisation and partisanship, informed by findings from the World Values Survey

➡️ uk-values.org/news-comment/p…

Join us on an open zoom, to find out about the Humanity Project, a new bottom-up democracy effort I'm working on.

Tuesday at 4pm bst (zoom link at the bottom of the article)
gathering, joining the dots, building something different

medium.com/@clarefarrell/… #democracy

Hard to think of much more important than building infrastructures to generate solidarity. And this data from Bobby Duffy / James Wright breaking down polarisation into constituent parts and making international comparisons invaluable in doing this uk-values.org/news-comment/p…

🎧 Global Assembly encourages #dialogue between people from diverse backgrounds to spark meaningful conversations, drive change, and combat #polarisation .

⤵️ Listen to our latest #PolicyVoices episode to learn more from Jamie Kelsey Fry about their work:
open.spotify.com/episode/5uhK08…

Just 4 trains a day London to Amsterdam.

St Pancras not yet started planning an expansion (and the UK takes forever to build anything).

Amsterdam able to check in only 650 passengers even after its upgrade is completed.

Hard to see a big shift from flying anytime soon.

Given pressures on public finances whoever wins the next election will need public services to improve impact with limited resources. So this is a timely (and short!) review by Halima Khan on what is meant by public sector innovation ircaucus.ac.uk/publications/s…

Left: Darren Jones, 'The list of of allowed photo IDs.. Permits a bus pass f you're over 65 but not a bus pass if you're under 21.. Jacob Rees Mogg said subsequently that this was an attempt to try and influence votes'

Right: That time when Jacob Rees Mogg acknowledged that the…

China today, London tomorrow…

…can’t shake the feeling that this will be Old Father Thames soon

Today is the birthday (and death day) of William Shakespeare. This short thread serves as a reflection on the passage of time, love, beauty, mortality and the meaning of life 🧵

1. Dame Judi Dench, Sonnet 29

Spoken words from Dr Stuart StopFossilSubsidies Capstick read by Benedict Cumberbatch at Letters Live. Moving. Very moving. Thank you for writing this poem Stuart.

youtu.be/yJvczRkQHK0?si…

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