I received an email today with details about the first stage of works that’s due to take place at the end of our street. The Chocolate Works development got planning permission way back in 2010 so it’s taken a long time to get to this point. Continue reading
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- Britain’s trust problem isn’t what it once wasBritain still has a serious trust problem. But the OECD’s 2026 survey makes it much harder to treat public trust as one national score: institutions, experiences and demographic groups are moving in different directions.
- What if Robert Jenrick is talking about Jesus?Robert Jenrick calls excessive compassion “suicidal empathy”. But what happens if we turn the accusation towards Jesus: his costly nearness, outrageous grace, Cross and resurrection?
- Apps are pointless unless you actually app with themResults day shows why the interesting question isn’t what government can put in an app, but what the services underneath can finally do together.
- Five things I think about GDS, data and AI being split up againBurnham has a theory of political power and is making deliberate moves to strengthen the centre. But it seems much clearer about where power should sit than about how the state beneath it should operate.
- Whatever is nearest. Whatever is open. Whatever replies.AI is already part of our mental health ecosystem, often through tools never designed as health services. The challenge is not whether people will use them, but how to govern what they find when formal support is unavailable or out of reach.
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