Navigating the labyrinth: socio-economic background and career progression in the Civil Service A report highlighting how socio-economic background shapes career progression within the Civil Service, and an action plan outlining recommendations to improve.

I’ve shared this report with plenty of people over the years, but sharing it again as I had a reason to point someone at it today.

Learn how posh people level up: www.gov.uk/government/p...

How many times can we “obliterate “ Iran’s nuclear capabilities? How many years will Iran be “weeks away” from attacking the U.S.? How many wars can Netanyahu get us into? How many centuries will countries continue fighting religious wars? How many trillions must be spent to feed the military industrial complex? How many innocent men, women and children must be killed and displaced from their homes? END THIS WAR NOW

WHY ARE WE IN IRAN?

That is so satisfying 😍

Influencers sold the world a fantasy Dubai – and now it’s gone in a puff of missile smoke | Gaby Hinsliff The city was portrayed as an aspirational place to live, but now those who moved there are realising the precarity that comes with being an economic migrant, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

This is good. Gaby Hinsliff drawing parrallels between the economic migrants in Dubai and those seeking a better life elsewhere - www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t

I can't fucking believe we're doing this again.

This is undoubtably the most exciting thing happening in tech right now.

Why couldn't the UK summon up the balls to do this years ago? Why couldn't Digital Strategies spearhead the introduction of open source products to save money and increase digital independence?

Innovation through circumstance

“We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns,” according to the document from Meta’s Reality Labs, which works on hardware including smart glasses.

Honestly you must have been shattered!! Yes… it was such an important reminder of the need to put human rights at the centre of us all x

Well that was quite the day. Thank you @rufflemuffin.bsky.social for making this happen - so many buttons pushed, so many thoughts and so much inspiration and I was so moved. Moved to action. It’s time to stand up 🏳️‍🌈🤩💪

#section28film 🙌

Wow. I knew today was going to be inspirational - but wasn’t expecting it to be quite so moving. Passionate debate from this afternoons panel. It’s time to stand up 🏳️‍🌈💪
#section28film

Oooh! You’re here - awesome 😀

- Chiara Capraro, Amnesty International UK
- Katie Dancey-Downs, Deputy Editor, Index on Censorship
- Alice Leggatt, CILIP School Libraries Group
- Lisa Power MBE, British sexual health and LGBT rights campaigner

Chilling. The effect Section28 had on teachers and young gay people. Terrifying to hear how the Christian right is funding and lobbying right now for a return to those oppressive ideologies. Amnesty International research - will find post links in thread… #section28film @rufflemuffin.bsky.social

Warm and inspiring start to the conference - Lord Chris Smith shares his experiences of being the only out gay MP in parliament as Tory MPs spoke in support of the legislation #section28film - and how it mobilised gay and lesbian people to fight back 🏳️‍🌈

Glad I bought my tickets months ago. So proud of you @rufflemuffin.bsky.social - you’ve done something amazing. Again. 🙌

Boy with pumpkin

Boy in street in the dark

Scary masks in window

Boy in Halloween dress up

Halloween 🎃

1 Nurse: It’s become a real problem in this area 2 Nurse: We’ve seen the whole community lost to addiction 3 Show a building sign posted: Westminster ‘X’ Addiction Clinic With various Westminster people or looking at their phones outside it Nurse: Ministers, Spads, Researchers… 4 Nurse: Most mornings we’ll get a call about someone acting strangely [Nurse on phone taking a call] Ok - we’ll be right over 5 Nurse: We just have a gentle chat [Nurses approach a minister –Robert Jenrick? - standing in the Palace of Westminster Minister: I understand your concerns… 6 Nurse: Are you OK love? Minister: Yes I’m just hearing legitimate concerns from real voters 7 Nurse: That’s a robot, a Nazi and a poorly-disguised Russian [Show that the people he is talking to are precisely these characters] Nurse 2: Give us your phone, love 8 Nurse: At the clinic we put them in a Grass-Touching Pod, with a real voter to talk to [We see them back at the clinic, holding the minister's head and pushing him into a glass isolation booth with a grass floor. And it is a baffled looking woman, on a chair, ready to talk to him.] 9 Minister: YOU MUST BE WORRIED ABOUT THE COMING CIVIL WAR [woman looks baffled] 10 woman: I just want a bus service Minister: LOOK AT MY FLAG [produces a St George's flag] [ends]

On it - thanks for the prompt 😍

Two pots with a black and white geometric pattern

Wonderful evening last night at the launch of my dad’s oldest friend’s pottery exhibition in London - do go if you can, the pots are exquisite and selling fast!

www.contemporaryceramics.uk/exhibitions/...

I definitely remember a talk like that - which might have been for gov design community… but not sure it made it into a blog post 🤔

🤔 peers as in community of practice…? Designers? Or digital more widely…?

Oh hey!! I’m so sorry to miss you this year - hope it goes well 👋🏻

Close up of the actor Robert Redford looking directly at the camera

Even I had a crush on Robert Redford - what a fox 💔

Celebrating the #EnglandRoses win and the respect and joy from both teams after the game.

Don’t underestimate the achievement from Samoa - incredible performance and so much pride.

Now go fund them and see what those girls can do 💪

Whoops - missed that this had been published whilst I was away - thanks Rob 🙌

47% of people think immigration is primarily illegal. There were 4% irregular arrivals in March

New YouGov polling. A monumental failure of our political class to educate, a monumental failure of our media to report fairly, for a generation

Land of Hope and Dreams YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen

Tonight, Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band opened their Land of Hope & Dreams Tour. Bruce launched this run of shows with three statements about the situation in the United States, with comments preceding his songs Land of Hope and Dreams, House of a Thousand Guitars and My City of Ruins.

100 DAYS...of lying, grifting, lawbreaking, division, incompetence, ignorance, illegal deportations, self-aggrandizement, vulgarity, self-pity, cruelty, ignoring the Supreme Court & due process while attacking: the Media, Universities, Law Firms, the Courts & Journalists.

1362 Days to go...

They should. I definitely would 🙌

They should put you in charge 😆