@gavin-kelly
Chief Executive, Nuffield Foundation Previous lives: Chief Executive & Exec. Chair, Resolution Foundation Founding Chair, Living Wage Commission Deputy Chief of Staff, 10 Downing Street Council of Economic Advisors, HMT
How to organise strategic capability in government - a painful reminder of what we are currently missing. Excellent synthesis by Geoff Mulgan.
tial.org/publications...
Good piece by @chrisgiles.ft.com
I'm always amazed the simple fiscal doom chart has persisted so long.
Need some simple way to capture the trilemma: rising taxes v spending cuts v fiscal doom.
Via the always insightful @jburnmurdoch.ft.com
www.ft.com/content/a9d8...
The tripling in the share of UK young adults reporting health problems that impede their daily life since 2008 is extraordinary, highly concerning and at odd with the experience of other nations.
Very fitting column - well done and good luck for whatever comes next.
Acemoglu, Autor & Johnson sketching out a pro-worker AI agenda. Worth your time.
Interesting to read this large scale representative survey of employers on the impact of AI with its (relatively modest) employment/productivity effects alongside some of the doomer opinion pieces doing the rounds heralding 'the great disemboweling of white collar jobs' etc....
Interesting to read this large scale representative survey of employers on the impact of AI with its (relatively modest) employment/productivity effects alongside some of the doomer opinion pieces doing the rounds heralding 'the great disemboweling of white collar jobs' etc....
So true. Can still remember small acts of kindness from the week my mum died (19 years ago). So sorry for your loss, take care.
A chart that I keep finding myself coming back to.
I was fortunate enough to look at a facsimile of 1984 tonight - much of it (neatly) handwritten, with loads of notes, scribbles & crossing-outs. Amazing.
Incredible that the household income threshold used to determine eligibility for the most generous student loan has been frozen at £25k since *2008* (since when nominal earnings have risen 60+%).
Really consequential changes are being made to the lifetime disposable income of graduates via freezes to loan repayment thresholds & interest rate thresholds. Big distributional consequences too.
Major @nuffieldfoundation.org funded research on the trajectory of high-achieving pupils at age 11 (from poorer & better-off families) through school into HE (or not).
The class gap in entry to the Russel Group is very large, mostly (not exclusively) explained by attainment & seems to have narrowed
The research by John Jerrim & Maria Palma Carvajal
is packed full of interesting findings for all those interested in education, social mobility, inequalities and cohort studies.
johnjerrim.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...
It also looks at university experience: which students still continue to live at home?
It shows that - even for students getting the same grades & going to the same uni - the odds are almost twice as high that those from disadvantaged backgrounds will continue living with their parents.
The study also looks at trajectories by gender & ethnicity. It shows that high attaining white working class pupils are significantly less likely to progress to RG unis than other pupils. The only group that does worse than white working class boys is WWC girls.
Major @nuffieldfoundation.org funded research on the trajectory of high-achieving pupils at age 11 (from poorer & better-off families) through school into HE (or not).
The class gap in entry to the Russel Group is very large, mostly (not exclusively) explained by attainment & seems to have narrowed
This week, an X user created an AI video of me being chloroformed and prepared for rape.
Victims are told it's not real and they're getting offended for no reason.
But nudification tools are weapons of sexual assault, and the harm they cause is real 👇
jessasato.substack.com/p/ai-nudific...
From @theifs.bsky.social Annual Report on Education Spending, funded by @nuffieldfoundation.org. A brilliant resource for all those interested in policy, education and children.
ifs.org.uk/publications...
What's happened to spending at different stages of the education spending over recent decades?
- HE fallen all the way back to where it was in c.2005
- secondary schools & FE still below 2010
- early years has doubled since 2010
- primary up 12% since 2010
Levels of despair have surged among the young:
'..for men under 25, despair more than doubled between 2009 and 2021. The percentage of young women in despair rose even more sharply, with most of the increase coming after 2016.'
There’s been no reduction in self-reported mental ill health in the post Covid years versus the Covid/lockdown era. Remarkable.
Agree. Trouble is, there are lots of other pressing things we could add to your list. What a time to be allocating resources.
What should we do less of? The question that, in so many different contexts, we all like to duck. All the more so if the answer gets anywhere near private consumption.
Image of a page on an article by Rob Street in the Law Society Gazette.
Delighted to see our Director of Justice, Rob Street, writing in the @lawsocietygazette.bsky.social about the Foundation’s Public Right to Justice programme & the importance of evidence-led reform in the civil, family & tribunal systems in England & Wales.
Find out more about PRTJ: bit.ly/49L7csU
Important new briefing note by @xiaoweixu.bsky.social @alexbryson.bsky.social @dannyblanchy.bsky.social
www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/blog/2026/01...
Which means the longstanding 'hump' shape of despair (peaking in middle age) has disappeared. Now, despair starts high and (broadly) declines with age.
Levels of despair have surged among the young:
'..for men under 25, despair more than doubled between 2009 and 2021. The percentage of young women in despair rose even more sharply, with most of the increase coming after 2016.'
