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🔥🇬🇧"If government wants to be trusted by the people, it must itself start to trust the people.” Très belle tribune dans le Financial Times du jour sur le rôle fondamental des citoyen·nes tiré·es au sort pour améliorer nos politiques publiques & la confiance. Democracy is coming...

🎉Celebrating 20 years of Sciencewise – a new programme in the making UK Research and Innovation ➡️Read Sarah Castell's blog reflecting on the last 20 years of Sciencewise and looking ahead at what's next for the programme👇 buff.ly/3yb2q9i

Great piece on how deliberative and consensus-building approaches can be used to take "the heat out of public discourse", with our own Stephanie Draper when she was at the #StrongerThings conference. 🧵👇

'Independent mechanism to set standards and scrutinise processes to ensure that they meaningfully involve citizens in a legitimate, unbiased way.' Miriam Levin Sarah Castell et al foreground the importance of #DeliberativeIntegrity in this white paper demos.co.uk/research/citiz…

"Deliberative approaches can help us see power differently – less about dividing pies & more about baking bread." 🥧🍞 5 changemakers share insights on finding common ground. From "disagreeing well" to "working with your head, heart & hands". 🧠🫀👐 newlocal.org.uk/articles/age-o…

A #Paris 🇫🇷, il n'y a pas que les #JOParis2024, il existe aussi une assemblée citoyenne permanente qui révolutionne le rapport du citoyen à la décision politique. Un petit aperçu grâce à DemocracyNext 🙏demnext.substack.com/p/how-a-perman…

The place set alight last night was Citizens Advice, Sunderland. Its manager this morning told me they’re devastated and now trying to figure out how to help the people they were supposed to see #sunderland

Civil Service World Sarah Castell Demos Miriam Levin In the Citizens’ White Paper, we set out 9 practical, costed recommendations for how to embed participation across govt. Some of these include: 📍 Creating a central hub of participatory policymaking expertise 👥 Setting up a cross-government standing citizens’ pool 🧵👇

Walthamstow tonight ✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾 This is what a mass movement against the far right looks like WFSUTR #StandUpToRacism

Liverpool, Walthamstow, Oxford, Bristol - beautiful scenes from up and down the country of communities coming together in the face of hatred this evening. THIS is who we are, THIS is what we should be striving for.

Bristol, England.

Far-right outnumbered as thousands of counter-protesters hit streets across England. Follow live updates: trib.al/Rg1Rm5z x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

Over the coming months, we’re working with the Future of UK Treescapes to help ensure that public policy around treescape management and expansion is grounded in the hopes and needs of the public. 🧵

🚨 Less than one week to apply! 🗣️ We're looking for freelance project managers and facilitators to support members of the public to have local conversations about climate and net zero. 👇🧵for more details

Did you know? The Global Citizens' Assembly Network #GloCAN collates new publications and op-eds on transnational deliberation and reports on related events and initiatives. Our first public newsletter is coming out soon - register at glocan.org to learn more!

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