📣 Analysts! Join us to build your understanding of wellbeing measurement in our next wellbeing valuation workshop. 📆 17 & 19 March 2026 ⏰ 4.5 hours 🎟️ pbe.co.uk/our-services...

We supported 163 social sector organisations in different ways during 2025. 🎉

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Plenty of annoyances with my son's Train Sim World but mispronouncing Glynde like something out of Wizard of Oz is up there

At our team meeting on Wednesday, PBE Economic Associate and Economic Advisor at the Bank of England, @joshmartinecon.bsky.social, joined us on his lunch break.

Our 2025 impact report – Strength in Numbers – is published today 📣

Save the date for the Wandsworth #Disabled People's Forum Meeting - Tues 17 March. Meet local Disabled people, share your experiences & help work towards change! We'll be at Earlsfield Library Hall because of building works. RSVP: https://ruils.co.uk/campaigning/wandsworth-disabled-peoples-forum/

Romance fraud: warning over scam that turns victims into insurance cheats

Meet Analyst @Oscar Zemsky 👋 Oscar has been on a six month placement with PBE as part of the Civil Service Fast Stream.

Happening today 👀

Find out more about our Data First Aid Scheme: pbe.co.uk/our-services...

France simply glorious

Thank you to all our Small Charities Forum members 🙏 We met with our brilliant Small Charities Forum members last week to chat about everything from recruitment challenges to building AI bots. pbe.co.uk/small-charit...

📣 Economists and analysts We've got three volunteer opportunities for you. 🗓️ Apply by 18 Feb

Coach Core Foundation is looking for a volunteer to analyse apprentice survey data to interpret what it reveals both at a national level and across different regions.  pbe.co.uk/vacancies/vo...

"Tracking nearly 3 million people over decades, researchers found that while boys are diagnosed more often in childhood, girls steadily catch up during their teenage years." www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

If you widen that highway you won’t reduce emissions or congestion. What you WILL do is spend a lot of public money to induce even more cars emitting even more GHGs and pollution in the same or worse congestion with people still demanding that you widen the highway. Period.

Great news. MPs should also pay attention to our campaigns: ● Remove the 26 bishops Religious office should not grant automatic voting rights in a parliamentary democracy. ● Scrap parliamentary prayers Attending prayers should not to provide speaking advantages🧵 observer.co.uk/news/politic...

There's incredible work taking place across the social sector to support better wellbeing and mental health for children and young people in the UK.

Now we have enshittification of rugby

Car driven into post of newish pedestrian crossing on Beechcroft Road Wandsworth Common/Tooting/Earlsfield early this morning

It’s always inspiring to support organisations interested in demonstrating the difference they make through economics. If you’d like to learn more about the Unlocking Impact Workshop, feel free to get in touch. pbe.co.uk/our-services...

dplyr 1.2.0 is out now and we are SO excited! - `filter_out()` for dropping rows - `recode_values()`, `replace_values()`, and `replace_when()` that join `case_when()` as a complete family of recoding/replacing tools These are huge quality of life wins for #rstats! tidyverse.org/blog/2026/02...

Free breakfast clubs will roll out to a further 500 primary schools from April - with a £6,500 yearly funding boost compared to last year’s phase www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

We currently accept the deaths of children and adults caused by people driving cars all the time. The road death statistics bear that out, as does the hysterical screeching from certain people every time a single road safety measure is suggested.

Nice to hear when sitting in Caffe Nero: www.wired.com/story/microd...

Are parents only as happy as their least happy child?  🤔 Improving young people’s mental health is linked to: ✅ better educational outcomes ✅ higher employment rates ✅higher earnings

Read about our initial findings: pbe.co.uk/insights/are...

“The ad was assessed by the active measures directorate as one of the most successful KGB operations of that time. It was a big ­ thing— to have three major American newspapers publish KGB sound bites.” @craigunger.bsky.social craigunger.substack.com/p/when-did-d...

Exploring Racket; until now never really looked at Lisp-like languages except in theory

"Even small improvements in children's mental health could boost GCSE attainment and reduce their probability of being excluded from school or requiring Special Educational Needs (SEN) support in secondary school." pbe.co.uk/publications... #DayOfEducation

Volunteer economist, analyst or researcher needed for Fearless Girls Club to help establish a UK Wellbeing Benchmark for Girls aged 8–12 👀 Apply by Sunday 1 February : pbe.co.uk/vacancies/vo...

To help with your responses to the DfT’s consultation on powered mobility aids, we are hosting a series of free webinars to discuss mobility aid regulations and how we can ensure Disabled people have the same journey-making choices as non-disabled people

Nice to see Burntwood Lane Earlsfield pedestrian crossing get its stripes, just need the beacons to be lit...

Fast forward to today, and everyone hates Adobe. Having driven off Quark and bought most of its competition (Frame, GoLive, Macromedia, etc etc) Adobe now rents you its software, for about £800 a year for the lot or, if you just need Photoshop, £263 per year. AI included, whether you like it or not.

#Tooting Food Festival at Tooting Market and Broadway Market, 14 & 15 February, 1pm-8pm, with food, music and storytelling over a two-day celebration of food, heritage and community! For more info and to purchase food tokens, visit welcometowandsworth.com/events/v6h-t...

Loving finally having a Windows version of DB40x/DB50x. Just so much to learn. github.com/c3d/db48x

Critically, we also need the public to support actions that enable older people to live great lives without having to drive for when they fail the eye tests. So the public need to get onboard with no pavement parking, pedestrian priority, denser housing, fewer out-of-town shopping centres, etc etc

To support the DfT’s consultation into modernising the law for powered mobility devices in achieving the best possible outcome for Disabled people, we will be launching explainer information resources, webinars and carrying out consultation sessions.

This explains so much. People with psychopathic traits and low cognitive ability are over-represented in online political activity. If someone is being cruel, obnoxious and ridiculous, don't try to reason with them. Chances are you won't get anywhere. Just block. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

After years languishing on indefinite jail terms, hundreds of prisoners have experienced a deterioration in their mental health to point they need hospital care. But when they get better, many will be back where they started: in jail with no release date www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...

Yeah, this. I'm not as "against AI" as many, but if it's AI made, you should say so. And definitely don't pass it off as "handmade" when it's absolutely not.

courage

I doubt it. (See the interwar years and the constitutions of the states that descended into barbarity, or Russia more recently). Pinning hopes on the ECHR or HRA providing a barrier to a Reform government, or any determined to violate it, is foolish. /1

'You shouldn't be getting a medal for being robbed by your own government' 92 year old Betty Brown, the oldest surviving victim of the Post Office IT scandal, told #BBCBreakfast she was 'very honoured, but angry' about being made an OBE in the New Year Honours

I wrote this piece back in May. Good to see it being shared widely again. Screens were fitted to make cars look techy when, in fact, their main benefit was to auto makers because they were far far cheaper than physical switchgear.

Local charity Share (who have a garden – with a garden centre – in #Tooting) are running a fundraising campaign to help open up employment opportunities for disabled adults (info in images). Find out more and donate via: www.justgiving.com/campaign/dis... #Balham #Wandsworth #Battersea #Putney