Today we launched the final report for A Fairer Start Local - innovation partnerships with the brilliant Leeds, York, Stockport & GMCA. I wrote this for the LGC on the lessons we learnt on innovating well, hopefully useful for the emerging Opportunity Mission! www.lgcplus.com/services/chi...

British politics - and Labour in particular - has not adjusted to how much the Trump crisis will change domestic politics and reshape the whole agenda www.ft.com/content/fc7a...

[Hmm...] The Public Benefit Innovation Fund - $20M to catalyze AI innovation and digital infrastructure to improve equitable access to social services www.publicbenefitinnovationfund.org#our-work

As someone who has reported on AI for 7 years and covered China tech as well, I think the biggest lesson to be drawn from DeepSeek is the huge cracks it illustrates with the current dominant paradigm of AI development. A long thread. 1/

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Excellent to see MPs like @tomhayesmp.bsky.social starting to talk more seriously about the role of play in a good childhood. Providing another opportunity to plug nesta's 2025 Signal www.nesta.org.uk/feature/futu... (next week we'll have more on our work on play in Leeds too!)

I was lucky enough to write one of nesta's 2025 Signals - had a lot of fun writing about how this could/should be the year policymakers in England take heed of the grassroots social movement in children's play and with a policy commitment to good play in childhood www.nesta.org.uk/feature/futu...

Right - EPC reform! You know those energy performance certificates that you see on Rightmove? They’re terrible, everyone in the energy sector hates them. But actually reforming them is tricky. My colleague @tomleach.bsky.social tries to chart a way forward www.nesta.org.uk/blog/epcs-ne...

Failed to resist jumping into the debate about dashboards, nerve centres, and missions in government. Inspired by @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social and others medium.com/@jamestplunk... (I'm trying a new era of not posting this on Twitter at all, so grateful for RTs to help me hold out!)