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Benjamin P Taylor @antlerboy.com · 01/10/2026

Action. Process. Knowledge. That’s the approach behind the National Commissioning Academy: apply ideas to your priorities, learn collaboratively, and use proven practice to spark new thinking. Our next national cohort begins in November: link.redquadrant.com/nextacademy25

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Benjamin P Taylor @antlerboy.com · 30/09/2026

Commissioning increasingly means working across systems rather than within organisational boundaries. The National Commissioning Academy helps you explore whole-system design, relationships, citizen outcomes, innovation and practical change. November cohort: link.redquadrant.com/nextacademy25

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Benjamin P Taylor @antlerboy.com · 17/09/2026

Italy is ripe with meme stock

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Benjamin P Taylor @antlerboy.com · 11/09/2026

You don’t need ‘commissioner’ in your job title to join the National Commissioning Academy. If your work involves shaping services, partnerships, systems, markets or outcomes, the programme is designed to be relevant to you. Find out more: link.redquadrant.com/nextacademy25

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Benjamin P Taylor @antlerboy.com · 09/09/2026

Commissioning across organisational boundaries is difficult. That’s why the Commissioning Academy brings together people from across public services to learn from each other, challenge assumptions and apply new thinking to real work. Join the November cohort: link.redquadrant.com/nextacademy25

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Benjamin P Taylor @antlerboy.com · 07/09/2026

Paul Verhoeven: do not fall for the parody of space Nazis in my famous film 'don't be like the space Nazis'. Tump:

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Benjamin P Taylor @antlerboy.com · 07/09/2026

Local government leaders right now

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Benjamin P Taylor @antlerboy.com · 04/09/2026

Got a real commissioning or transformation challenge you need to tackle? Bring it with you. The National Commissioning Academy combines learning, peer challenge and practical application – including your own 100-day plan for action. November cohort: link.redquadrant.com/nextacademy25

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Benjamin P Taylor @antlerboy.com · 03/09/2026

Never change, ChatGPT, never change....

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Benjamin P Taylor @antlerboy.com · 03/09/2026

Good commissioning is about much more than contracts and procurement. The National Commissioning Academy explores how to work with whole systems, communities, partners and services to achieve better outcomes. Next cohort starts November 2026: link.redquadrant.com/nextacademy25

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Benjamin P Taylor @antlerboy.com · 02/09/2026

The next National Commissioning Academy starts this November. Our flagship PSTA programme is for commissioners, transformation leads and public service colleagues who want to improve outcomes by working with the whole system. Register your interest: buff.ly/q72ddwG

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Benjamin P Taylor @antlerboy.com · 26/08/2026

On dicovering the Open AI developer community... disappointing that it's buggy as hell (I mean the product but of course the developer community noticeboard is as well).

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Benjamin P Taylor @antlerboy.com · 25/08/2026

I understand the immense pressure the Financial Ombdusman is under. But this message (in their frustrating portal) is a classic sign that says to me: 'something is very wrong here, probably several things, and this message is certainly not fixing that'.

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Benjamin P Taylor @antlerboy.com · 22/08/2026

good bit of public information

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Benjamin P Taylor @antlerboy.com · 22/08/2026

Quick, get in the pea! We composting old paradigms and birthing the new

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Benjamin P Taylor @antlerboy.com · 20/08/2026

A genuine hit on Mastodon (and nowhere else), innit strange?!

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Benjamin P Taylor @antlerboy.com · 20/08/2026

RIP Douglas Adams, you would have loved the cheery AI assistants which possess ≈ all human knowledge and cheerfully lie to you that they've published your website.

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Benjamin P Taylor @antlerboy.com · 11/08/2026

oh no. no no no no no.... that's not how these things should work?!

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Benjamin P Taylor @antlerboy.com · 09/08/2026

I cresent the Unwinator - yarble gour own web. (Use at or youwn risk) github.com/antlerboy-be... Turn ordinary web pages into tsronger Unwinese-ish English, with extra psoonerisms. Unwinator works entirely inside slour yowser. It noes dot wend sebpage content anywhere-acious.

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Benjamin P Taylor @antlerboy.com · 31/07/2026

folks, folks... I JUST SAW A DOLPHIN! Off Lancing Beach

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Benjamin P Taylor @antlerboy.com · 30/07/2026

Copilot suddenly did something useful - then immediately got sassy.

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Benjamin P Taylor @antlerboy.com · 22/07/2026

Nice bar-charting, Microsoft. Much accurate, very represent.

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Benjamin P Taylor @antlerboy.com · 05/07/2026

havingstarted to be useful, ChatGPT now regularly loses multiple chats which can't be found in projects, sidebar, or search :-( I switched from personal to corporate in November and lost everything including tracing my dad's history for his eulogy. I can forgive a lot but loss of data is really bad

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Benjamin P Taylor @antlerboy.com · 02/07/2026

I have done a handy and sophisticated chart on appropriate (and unfortunate) use of AI in writing for your education and edification. (i.e. I couldn't find the mémé so I made my own)

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Benjamin P Taylor @antlerboy.com · 28/06/2026

In photos for those who don’t have Facebook.

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Benjamin P Taylor @antlerboy.com · 26/06/2026

Today in curiously specific anonymisation - 'Mr Salt, is that you?!'

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Benjamin P Taylor @antlerboy.com · 23/06/2026

I know it's a stupid thing to get hung up on, but which of these is the correct category for paying salary? HMRC?

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Benjamin P Taylor @antlerboy.com · 21/06/2026

I think, generally, on balance, that I would most likely prefer to live in less Interesting Times.

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Benjamin P Taylor @antlerboy.com · 19/06/2026

Burnham Burnham claims the country by planting his flag

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Benjamin P Taylor @antlerboy.com · 11/06/2026

A Simple Desultory Philippic on Being A Customer in 2026

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Benjamin P Taylor @antlerboy.com · 11/06/2026

Taking bets on how many times Virpi's cartoon features at #StrongerThings and #TRIPS Towards Relational Public Services - what's the over/under on 16?

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Benjamin P Taylor @antlerboy.com · 10/06/2026

PSTA Special Webinar: A Different Look at Systems Thinking, with Goldratt UK, Thu 2 July 2026, 10:30 - 12:30

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Benjamin P Taylor @antlerboy.com · 05/06/2026

Outcomes do not come from services alone. They come from systems: relationships, incentives, data, power, behaviours and trust. Join the September 2026 National Commissioning Academy to develop the skills to work with that complexity. Contact david.mason@publicservicetransformation.org

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Benjamin P Taylor @antlerboy.com · 02/06/2026

Most commissioning training teaches you how to buy services. The National Commissioning Academy helps you reshape the systems that produce outcomes. New cohort launching September 2026. Launch webinar: 14 Sept, 10:00–12:30.

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Benjamin P Taylor @antlerboy.com · 02/06/2026

LGR? The real challenge is what comes next www.linkedin.com/posts/antler...

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