David Broggio

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UK local government is at a pivotal moment.

As PD Director Gavin Beckett writes, it’s time to start building dynamic service organisations to respond to the challenges of today.

Our event on 27 November will explore how we can build a movement across the sector.

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If you weren't sure if it would suit, you could put it in a room for a trial period?

Bristol just now as Ashton Gate’s bar goes wild for Chloe Kelly’s winning penalty
#England #lionesses

@stradella.bsky.social !!!

🧵 Several people have raised questions about what I meant by "deservedly so" when referring to the decline of institutional trust. It's a fair question, so I want to explain that, because it sits at the heart of my work on how democracies collapse when their epistemic foundations rot.

Technology and Strategy in the emerging ICB landscape The ICB’s have a new model becoming centres combining data insight with strategic commissioning and public engagement. Here are some unanswered questions and potential bumps in the road to realising t...

New post – reflections on technology and strategy in light of the emerging NHS ICB models.
Here I give a (very) brief overview of the emerging model and then cover unanswered questions, assumptions and challenges around digital, data and transformation.

priteshmistry.ghost.io/technology-a...

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It depends if you were training for a 5k or a marathon.

Slightly building on #1, some public services are things people don't want to do / buy but are compelled to by government. Also, often quite different governance, design decision making bodies and funding models - not just btwn private and public but among public servs too

A recipe for making the monoculture & groupthink worse. Civil service recruitment needs to be redesigned from first principles.

NHS Blood & Transplant invited load of health journalists to give blood today and promised would post about it. I didn’t do it until last year (bit pathetic re needles) and it really is so easy. Turns out my subtype is R0 so rare and partic useful for sickle cell patients.

Tony Blair is wrong – AI will not magically solve our public services Too many people might be left out of its revolution.

As the PM makes a speech on using more AI in public services, here’s a piece from a few months back on how not to screw this up.

‘Taking the time to do things right isn’t anti-innovation – it is what is required to get deep-rooted change in social systems.’
www.newstatesman.com/comment/2024...

Ben Broggio signs new contract with Aston Villa Young forward commits his future to the club

www.avfc.co.uk/news/2025/ma...

The new GOV.UK login system is the first step in a radical transformation of the British state A British "DOGE" (of sorts) is rearchitecting the government

The new GOV.UK login system is the first step in a radical transformation of the British state (FREE TO READ!)

takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/login-to-a...

Eerily prescient from Private Eye, wish it wasn't...

What's the secret to Denmark's happy work-life balance? The Nordic nation doesn't require staff to work long hours and has a generous welfare system.

I found this very interesting! BBC News - What's the secret to Denmark's happy work-life balance?
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Word of the Day is one I keep posting at the end of the year, hoping its time will come.

‘Respair’, from the 16th century, is fresh hope, and a recovery from despair.

Here’s to a few drops of respair in 2025.

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Merry Christmas from Captain Fluff!

League tables to reveal failing NHS trusts Hospitals in England will be ranked on care and finances, so patients can look for good service.

NHS league tables.

Again.

Sigh.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

“Half a league table, half a league table, half a league table onward,
Into the valley of the shadow of career death
Rode the six hundred.”

(With apologies to Alfred Tennyson.)

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Impressive Festival of Light at Longleat this year!

Our World in Data now has an account on Bluesky! Follow us here:
@ourworldindata.bsky.social

Calling all folk with an interest in UK public policy: I’ve created a starter pack of think tankers, policy analysts & commentators active on @bsky.app go.bsky.app/LtNiL1o

News Happening Faster Than Man Can Generate Uninformed Opinions NEW YORK—Calling out the unsustainable pace at which historic events seemed to be occurring, local man Brad Gifford told reporters Monday that important news stories were now happening faster than ...

"It’s getting harder and harder to come up with enough incoherent perspectives to meet the moment."