James Arthur Cattell

YouTube video by James Arthur Cattell Personal stand-up for Wednesday 25 February 2026. #WorkingInTheOpen

Personal stand-up for Wednesdays 25 February 2026 youtube.com/shorts/dv6ow... (YouTube short).

Yesterday = morning off + research and design tasks in the afternoon.

Today = meetings.

Blockers = bit tired as slept away from home last night.

#WorkingInTheOpen

YouTube video by James Arthur Cattell Personal stand up for Friday 20 February 2026

Personal stand-up for Friday 20 February 2026 youtube.com/shorts/Xj70d... (YouTube Short) in the format of yesterday, today and any blockers.

#WorkingInTheOpen

YouTube video by James Arthur Cattell Personal stand-up for Thursday 19 February 2026

Personal stand-up for Thursday 19 February 2026 in the format yesterday, today and any blockers youtube.com/shorts/DUErZ... (YouTube Short).

(Recorded on my morning walk, but didn't get around to posting till this afternoon).

#WorkingInTheOpen

YouTube video by James Arthur Cattell Personal stand up for Tuesday 17 February 2026

Personal stand-up for Tuesday 17 February 2026 youtube.com/shorts/SCfYu... (YouTube Short).

#workingintheopen

TransformGov Talks: February 2026 · Luma Liam Hawkes, Principal Service Designer, and Violette Gadenne, Senior User Researcher, Policy and Innovation Lab (CoLab), Home Office, on setting the scene,…

🚨 6PM, WED 25 February 🚨

At the MoJ or online.

Liam Hawkes and Violette Gadenne, CoLab HO on service design in a spending review

​James Plunkett, Kinship Works, on the energy at the edges - and how the centre can spread it

luma.com/q19znan6

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YouTube video by James Arthur Cattell Personal stand-up for Monday 16 February 2026

Personal stand-up for Monday 16 February 2026 youtube.com/shorts/YKdr3...

Peer accountability!

YouTube video by James Arthur Cattell Personal stand-up (yesterday, today and blockers) for Wednesday 11 February 2026.

Also available as a YouTube short youtube.com/shorts/B-jrc...

Personal stand up for Wednesday 11 February 2026, featuring The Financial Conduct Authority, The Pensions Regulator, Joe Craig and @derekalton.bsky.social.

Hello! Following on from highly successful events like @ukgovcamp.com a group of us are now in the early stages of developing a similar event for civil servants involved in policy development.

How can I help? 🙂

Publishing your #weeknotes to weeknot.es Sorry — Medium has changed the way it supports ‘publications’ and I can’t add any new contributors at the moment. I am trying to work out…

@jukes.ie how far d'you get with finding a "Medium changes" workaround, please? weeknot.es/publishing-y...

Still looking for Content Designer and Graphic Designer (both unpaid volunteer, part-time, 4-6 hours, flexible).

Have lived experience of ADHD and want to work with a great team pushing for change in ADHD care?

Email: adhdpathfinding@googlegroups.com

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Perhaps #PolicyCamp is part of the answer?

"Camp" as in "Campus", i.e. coming together and learning from each other.

Q: Are you a policy official?

Tell them what you think via:

Google Form bit.ly/GPolicyCamp

Microsoft Form bit.ly/MSPolicy

Slide title is, "Misaligned incentives". Underneath are 3 bullet points: 1. We're organised in silos. 2. Green book economics culture - need more creative, multidisciplinary impact modelling. 3. Accountability for the risk of not doing market-shaping

Slide title is, "Lack of common language & approaches". There are 2 bullet points: 1. DDAT, the service manual and other established norms don't equip policy, technology or delivery people to diagnose complex systems and organise around outcomes. 2. Complexity is hard, but community-driven approaches define successful system shaning.

Interesting slides from Linda at @tpximpact.com

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This evening's @transformgovtalks.bsky.social talks has started, this evening hosted at @tpximpact.com in #London.

A person with short grey hair and a black blazer speaks at a table during a hearing.

A person with short grey hair and a black blazer speaks at a table during a hearing.

Lookie, lookie !! @janethughes.bsky.social is on the tele 😍

Janet's answering questions on, "Accountability in small government bodies" at the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee.

Live stream / recording available via parliamentlive.tv/event/index/...

#SoProud ❤️

YouTube video by The Noveltones - Topic Left Bank Two

youtu.be/yOzW3Qwfd_A 🙂

Maybe. I've already done several roles in Cabinet Office, so I've kind of ticked that department off my bucket list.

That typed, I'm always happy to have a chat.

Are you involved in the recruitment, please?

Innit, thou? 😯

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The awesome Sam Villis (@stamanfar.bsky.social) hosted the first #OneTeamGov virtual meet-up of 2026 this week.

One of the things we discussed was doing a 10th anniversary #unconference next year in 2027.

Please like and repost if you're interested.

Bored of peace?

Before my time with The Pensions Regulator is done, I'd love to figure out how I could get paid to organise all the cross-gov things.

Not fussed what combination of people or organisations fund me (public, private, voluntary sector, etc) within reason.

#PublicSector
#community
#events

The first #OneTeamGov Virtual of 2026 hosted in the UK / GMT time zone is currently underway. Here's what we're discussing trello.com/b/aQDNXtPS

#DayNotes for Tuesday 20 January 2026:

1. Facilitated the #OneTeamGov North breakfast meetup luma.com/oneteamgov-n...

2. Collaborated on agendas for next week's TPR working group meetings www.thepensionsregulator.gov.uk/about-us/wha...

3. Pinged Data & Digital working group members via email.

TransformGov Talks: January 2026 · Luma Join us at 5.30pm for a 6pm start. Matt Wood-Hill, MHCLG, and Linda O'Halloran, TPXimpact on public service market-shaping Patrick Diamond, Professor in Public…

🚨 6PM, WED 28 January 🚨

At TPXImpact or online

Matt Wood-Hill, MHCLG, and Linda O’Halloran, TPXimpact on public service market-shaping.

​Patrick Diamond, Professor in Public Policy, Queen Mary, University of London, on government effectiveness

luma.com/pc7ji8sg

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Q: Anyone fancy doing a @ukgovcamp.com XL next year, please?

Would be interesting to open the registration this month, then have all year to promote it and see how many people we get.

Would also be awesome to get a sponsored hotel deal so people can arrive the day before.

Thoughts?

#ukgc26

Enormous thanks to the organisers of #ukgc26 and to the sponsors. The event is a highlight of my year, every year - I’m leaving with fresh insights, reflections and book recommendations! Such brilliant and lovely people.

I do worry we've gone from 1 echo chamber to an even smaller, less diverse one. Though I don't have the numbers to prove it.

That typed, I cross-post all my stuff to Bluesky, LinkedIn, Mastodon and X. Most resulting engagement then happens on LinkedIn. I barely get anything on X anymore.

#ukgc26

Sticker that says hope springs from many places

Thank you #ukgc26. Great day, community and discussions.. and hope!