How can we make this the UK's last ever energy crisis? ⚡ Episode 4 of the Policy Fix podcast is out now. @jlowen.bsky.social sits down with @raviguru.bsky.social and @madgabes.bsky.social to untangle the latest energy shock. 🎧 Listen to the full episode: https://bit.ly/3Om0enk

Part one of a new series by @timleunig.bsky.social for @nestauk.bsky.social looking at the governments options on tax ahead of the Budget. This one looks at VAT, featuring gingerbread men, marshmallows and tanned cow hide. www.nesta.org.uk/blog/fiscal-...

The Health Secretary has just announced a new policy designed by @nestauk.bsky.social that could cut obesity by a fifth. As the food that surrounds us has got worse over time, obesity rates have crept up. If we work with supermarkets to make food a little bit healthier, we can reverse this trend.

Great to see @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social announce a new healthy food standard. Nesta first set out this policy in 2024 and we are very pleased to welcome it today. Read more in @theobserveruk.bsky.social with @rachelsylvester.bsky.social observer.co.uk/news/politic...

Are you a back bench Labour MP? Think you could do better than Rachel Reeves? Use the @nestauk.bsky.social IFS "Be the Chancellor" tool and see if your numbers add up...

Tough choices face the government in the upcoming spending review. Now updated, the Be the Chancellor tax tool by Nesta & @theifs.bsky.social invites you to set tax + spending to see how different choices affect the government balance sheet.

To all the ministers, advisers and officials currently in painful negotiations for the Spending Review, trying to work out where and how more money could be found… We @nestauk.bsky.social and @theifs.bsky.social have updated our “Be the Chancellor” tool. www.nesta.org.uk/data-visuali...