Wishing the Jewish communities in the UK and across the globe a happy Passover.

Chag Sameach.

🚨BONUS CONTENT - Listen back to this week's Debrief recorded LIVE last night: The secret world of think tanks, the shape of a Labour government and Achilles' heels with Jon Will Chambers Charlotte Alldritt Ed Owen and The Guardian’s Aletha Adu thepowertest.substack.com/p/the-debrief-…

Two years on and after the Ukraine invasion, still no investigation into Russian influence and funding.

Out *next month*:
📍 New FGF paper w/ Metro Dynamics setting out how Labour delivers on its #devolution commitments
🎯 Report by Georgia Gould & Mariana Mazzucato on how to implement mission-driven govt in practice

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Why I think we are heading for a winter general election. My weekend article for The Independent independent.co.uk/voices/winter-…

And here’s the cherry 🍒 blossom 🌸 trees in Pontypool Park, snapped yesterday. I’d never appreciated them pre-Covid, now I look forward to them every year

bananas Pension companies should invest in assets that go up in value, not weird feudal schemes there is a political consensus on banning

How to deal with Majorie Taylor Greene misinformation about Nazis in Ukraine - a masterclass from Prof Tim Snyder

'Ukraine won, Trump lost. That may be a repeating pattern in the year ahead.'

More and more people are recognizing the bubble

This is the ultimate timeline-cleanser!

And the video… 1993 London looking 😍

#OTD in 1993, Blur - For Tomorrow

On This Day… 19th April 1993

Blur - For Tomorrow

Utterly, utterly magnificent in every way.

Special shout to the Visit To Primrose Hill extended mix too. Glorious.

“the age at which Britons are more likely to choose the Tories over the Labour opposition has risen to 70 from 39 at the last general election in 2019, according to the JL Partners survey shared with Bloomberg”
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

'It's becoming increasingly obvious that blaming individual councils for poor performance while systemically underfunding them is a misdiagnosis of the problem'

Jessica Studdert on 🆕 LGC research which finds 1/5 councils facing severe financial difficulties lgcplus.com/politics/gover…

🔎Great spot from The Future Governance Forum policy associate and all round good egg Jessica Studdert.

Implicit in the evaluation is a recognition that the current approach to funding #localgov is undermining its ability to coalesce its services around people and places.

Ta-da! Publication day. All good book shops (in this instance, Foyles).

Today Sadiq Khan has pledged to continue offering free school meals to primary school children, which is in my opinion a great use of London taxpayer's money. This is HUGE and part of what I’ve been working on for the past 20 years. Food in schools is as essential as exercise

My latest, for Foreign Policy, a dispatch from Ukraine's eastern front, as the ammunition shortages have reached a critical point.
foreignpolicy.com/2024/04/17/ukr…