Banging on about complexity, public sector change and digital stuff / The Clock and the Cat podcast I no longer use Twitter https://teapawt.net/t.co/8mO8u9WUR3
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I deleted Twitter from my phone a week ago and have been exploring Mastodon.
Mastodon runs on open source software and is not owned by anyone. It's not as slick as Twitter but nor is it as unhealthy.
I'm enjoying it and plan to stay
mastodon.social/@markfoden
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For anyone wondering, Mastodon got over 70K sign-ups yesterday alone. Let's keep the momentum going! The "public square" of the web must not belong to any one person or corporation!
Mastodon looks like a good thing. And it’s encouraging that @timoreilly has joined
Politician always backward-looking, noxious air nauseating, ultimately (4-4)
Clue from yesterday’s Guardian crossword. Its setters are not sparing the government at the moment (or ever really)
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"...and thirdly, the pirates code is more what you'd call guidelines than actual rules - welcome aboard the Black Pearl Miss Turner"
- Captain Hector Barbossa
youtu.be/k9ojK9Q_ARE?t=30s
We’ve dug up the tree and it’s been on the lorry for months. Bitter arguments about where it’s going to be planted. Arborists shouting animatedly about its deteriorating health. New driver has no HGV experience…
markfoden.com/blog/2016/12/m… from 2016
“In a clash with traditional finance, the new behemoths of financial capital - hedge funds, private equity firms, and real estate funds - have started to cohere around a set of political beliefs, promoting libertarian, authoritarian, climate-denying, and Eurosceptic views”
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"Who would be trustworthy and persuasive enough to break the deadlock [of the 2016 Irish abortion debate]?"
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via @petermacleod @jonjalex
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…what’s happening today doesn’t just mean we need a General Election in Britain
Elections are simply not enough
We need far deeper and more fundamental change
Another democratic future is possible
Bringing people together to learn about, discuss and offer considered views on our biggest problems
A straightforward, cheap (and to me screamingly obvious) way to try something different that might make a difference to our democracy
thestar.com/opinion/contribu…
Meanwhile, in the US…
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“It's cloud illusions I recall
I really don't know clouds at all”
- Joni Mitchell
The markets have taken back control: so much for the delusions of Brexit | Jonathan Freedland theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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My experience at DWP was that there was little interest in the question of whether the threat & imposition of sanctions 'works', or the wider impact this approach might have on people's mental & physical health - it was just seen as an inherent & necessary part of the system
NEW: The DWP has pulled the plug on a long-planned study into the impact of benefit sanctions on claimants' health, after reneging on a promise to share sanctions data with researchers
The decision comes amid soaring sanctions rates
By me, for the Mirror mirror.co.uk/news/politics/m…
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Using small specialist consultants for discrete pieces of work on strategy, governance etc enables short interventions to make improvements and often relatively cheap. Wouldn’t ever go near the big firms again after being told to use them by the ‘centre’
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Isambard Brunel understood project management better than our current politicians/officials - now across the west we run competitions incentivising 'bid low & lie'
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Experiences from implementations of Epic sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Most of the underlying causes of the Post Office IT scandal are unfixable
wp.me/p11Pbj-5NE
@PostOffInquiry
@beisgovuk
#PostOfficeScandal
"We're so stuck in the 1960s ... a tragic distraction with an outdated ideology”
Yesterday I spoke on @BBCRadio4 to challenge Truss's rally cry for 'growth, growth, growth'. It's tough figuring out how to overturn a deeply entrenched paradigm in just a few sentences - I gave it a go. What else would you have said? Listen in at 2:47:00 bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001cp…