All this talk of the rapture reminds me of this from one of my favourite albums open.spotify.com/track/3QNBn3...

We spent a year in the US when I was a toddler. One of my earliest memories is of getting a vaccination. Was v. excited to be able to choose my own sticker - an aeroplane.

Fantastic opportunity to work with some great minds

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Big win for the foxes. Champions for the second year running.

My local boyhood cricket team are in the village cup final at Lord's again. #TheCricket www.youtube.com/live/f6lLlrk...

Don't open it . . . don't open it . . . don't open it . . .

Lots of mosquitoes out tonight. Watch your ankles.

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Interesting to see South Cambs district council using the language of rest and care. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Good to see the Bristol City Poet kicking off the BBC's women's rugby footage (cc @andrewkelly.bsky.social)

Racism and poverty are public health problems but if we fix poverty we don’t necessarily fix racism. We don’t talk enough about this. It’s becoming clear that we need population level interventions to tackle racism besides economic solutions. We can’t be too afraid to talk about this.

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Wonderful old documentary on BBC4 on the Settle to Carlisle railway line. They really let the subjects speak back in those days (1988!)

Just had a message from someone who was at a widening participation event last year that I spoke at. She's just starting a degree in public policy. Nice warm fuzzy feeling!

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Heartbreaking. But in the right kind of musical way that leaves you feeling better.

Always a good time for a bit of Tom Tom Club youtu.be/XIW4skg3Ceo?...

Somehow, my partner has been able to keep up with current affairs without ever having heard the voice of Donald Trump. She refuses to hear it.

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Sad to see another 89 year old inspiration has left us - the Brazilian musician Hermeto Pascoal. Here's one of my favourites. youtu.be/lZbfNtDCHdM?...

Beautiful. How to dress.

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Quite some speech. I wonder if Julian Cope - the self-proclaimed arch-drude - is one of his constituents?

Stuck at the home of rock'n'roll. Plastic bag in the overhead wires at Letchworth. Rock'n'roll.

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If you’re after a timely lunchtime read, I can recommend this, adapted from a conference speech I went to in July. People in more diverse areas report lower levels of trust, and have negative views about their neighbours, but it’s because those areas are deprived, not because they’re diverse

Great British break off www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

The @oecd-ocde.bsky.social Global Forum on Productivity kicks off in London! 📢 @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social delivered the keynote this morning 💡 @bartvanark.bsky.social and Tony Venables will set the stage for panel discussions. Great to see TPI experts shaping the global productivity debate.

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Obviously Reviewer 2.

Another great piece from @jenwilliamsft.bsky.social. When's the collected works coming out?

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So, just to try and cheer myself up and put numbers into context, over 375,000 tickets have been sold for the Women's Rugby World Cup 2025.

Feels like a Lady Day and John Coltrane kind of a day open.spotify.com/track/7aLn70...

McSweeney Agonistes was there for the taking.

Always good to watch the last night of the proms if just to see Helen Vollam, the BBC symphony orchestra's principal trombonist, and the first female principal trombonist of a London orchestra. And someone I played trombone alongside many many years ago.

Where's Clive Myrie? #TheProms

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Ouch!

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Interesting take. The UK’s collapsing social infrastructure is a national security risk.

Watching #Taskmaster and realising that Reece Shearsmith will make the perfect Andy Burnham come the biopic.

Any suggestions for modern(ish) Australian literature?