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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…

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

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…

“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’.

Dear Sir Jeremy Hunt MP. 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.

🗣️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: 🎧🔽

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.

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)

What a walk to start the week. “When your thinking thoughts pass, you will be in the clear sky of your mind.” Nawang Khechog

“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.

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…

It's long been a question: could all of humanity actually live within the Doughnut? Thanks to Hauke Schlesier et al it's just been quantified for the 1st time. And the answer is probably yes - if we transform to economies of sufficiency. Read more here: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

a beautiful, ambitious, propositional and vital piece of work. thank you ਇਮਨਦੀਪ ਕੌਰ | Imandeep Kaur CIVIC SQUARE Dark Matter Labs for everything you do, and for creating this on top of that 💜 a call to action for all of us.

A new report by LSE Inequalities for Joseph Rowntree Foundation, which reviews the literature on the framing of economic inequality, suggests that the lack of shared public understanding of wealth inequality might present an opportunity faircomment.co.uk/p/telling-diff…

local govt people 👀 ⬇️ (and keep your eyes peeled also for our supplement on municipal and civic imagination with LGC in june…)

Wealth creators vs wealth extractors: Keir Starmer talks of wealth creation as his number one mission, but risks missing an opportunity to differentiate between productive and extractive wealth. faircomment.co.uk/p/a-wealth-of-…

A “child poverty strategy review” could “take minutes and waste years” by exploring complex & imaginatively-branded ways to mimic the abolition of the 2-child limit Or it could conclude briskly, & brusquely demand the axing of that cap