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kaitrees Every ancient oak in England has links to their local community including schools growing trees from their acorns 🙂🌳

Good to remind folks that the States Assembly of Jersey included people's informed views in the debate on assisted dying. Not about 'random people deciding, instead of politicians' - it's about decision makers being accountable for taking on board informed public judgements.

"Carnegie UK urges both the London and Edinburgh governments to work on rebuilding public confidence by offering more meaningful public participation opportunities in decision-making." Trust in politics and in government has dropped even further. carnegieuktrust.org.uk/publications/l…

(🧵) ELECTION THREAD: I’ve been waiting all night to say anything substantive about what’s happened, as I felt—I still do—that I might say something I’d regret. I hope you’ll consider following along as I try to process this with you all, and try to do it responsibly. Please RT.

"Sexism is the foundation on which all tyranny is built. Every social form of hierarchy and abuse is modeled on male-over-female domination." - Andrea Dworkin -

I should say that Trump is not yet at 270- it’s not a totally done deal but all the survey data from AP Votecast- national sample of over 115,000 has told the story of Harris losing ground with too many once solid groups, & not gaining enough with women 2/

This is…scary. A civil society group that researches disinformation being threatened with prosecution. It’s so hard to contemplate let alone process what is coming

Plus ça change

"We wanted to create a blueprint for government on how to engage the pubic on tricky issues that includes a public judgement element. If you want rebuild trust this is essential." 🗣️Sarah Castell

All the feels! Excited for Calum Green - involve's Director of Advocacy & Communications, who is moving on. I'm proud of all he has done - but sad I won't be working with this excellent human every day! Great opportunities ahead to build on Calum's fantastic work at Involve.

Enjoyed this conversation with Stephen Elstub - what's the role of the wider public around a deliberative democracy exercise? We offer some thoughts and ideas for how more research & practice could take shape.

Devolution! Fantastic new paper from involve colleagues - we call for people to be meaningfully involved in devo deals, scrutiny and accountability, local growth plans - and for combined authorities to be BOLD & commit to public engagement in flagship projects.

Excited for Apolitical event tomorrow - it's time to tell a new strong, coherent story of future govt. Similar themes are emerging rapidly from across all disciplines of public sector, organisational, and democratic reform - we need to weld them into one compelling tale.

Well this is an interesting and refreshing sense of potential...