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Ian Makgill @imak.bsky.social · 30/09/2024

Make data publishing part of their audit process, no spending data, no org charts etc - then your accounts can’t be signed off.

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Ian Makgill @imak.bsky.social · 19/09/2024

I had a friend who’s high Tory mother spent 30 minutes of every morning of her retirement calling the BBC to complain about bias on the Today programme. Same energy.

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Ian Makgill @imak.bsky.social · 19/09/2024

The Telegraph’s frothing rage at art will never not be funny to me.

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Ian Makgill @imak.bsky.social · 10/09/2024

“Good natured detours” is now a fervent ambition of mine.

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Ian Makgill @imak.bsky.social · 10/09/2024

Which reminds me of the single best book ever written ever.

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Ian Makgill @imak.bsky.social · 10/09/2024

And a shop with hammers and ladders and buckets for the occasional leaky roof.

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Ian Makgill @imak.bsky.social · 10/09/2024

That doubles as a post office

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Ian Makgill @imak.bsky.social · 10/09/2024

The best high street: bikes, coffee, books, prints, cheese - all you could want.

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Ian Makgill @imak.bsky.social · 10/09/2024

A little gallery of maps and prints with a kettle and some biscuits.

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 07/09/2024

Betcha no one from OnlyFans has been invited to a "how can we use technology to unlock growth" roundtable at No 10.

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Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 07/09/2024

Old boxes. Ah, those were the days, when you'd form a band, make a noisy 7" record, ring up John Peel's producer, ask for a session, get a call back saying "yes, OK then," go to Maida Vale, spend the day recording ridiculous songs on extremely posh equipment and GET PAID £471.20 FOR THE PRIVILEGE.

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Ian Makgill @imak.bsky.social · 03/09/2024

I should have said “learned” not “discovered”.

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Ian Makgill @imak.bsky.social · 03/09/2024

I did some work on using payment cards with vulnerable adults many years ago and the first thing I discovered was that vulnerability was inconsistent, it varied over time and often increased when engaging with authorities (eg banks). Simple techniques like a ring back could be very difficult.

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Ian Makgill @imak.bsky.social · 03/09/2024

I should qualify that, it’s not housing costs per se, it’s the proportion of discretionary spend from salaries that it consumes that is the problem, it stops £££ getting to the parts of the economy that can grow.

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Ian Makgill @imak.bsky.social · 03/09/2024

Yes your buying power is reduced, hence why housing costs are such a drag on the economy.

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Ian Makgill @imak.bsky.social · 03/09/2024

Oh my. It’s almost as if there wasn’t a vivid history of terrible outcomes from industry lobbyists leaning heavily on regulators.

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Ian Makgill @imak.bsky.social · 03/09/2024

It is what it is, I just have a slight obsession about the negative externalities that all taxes create.

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Ian Makgill @imak.bsky.social · 03/09/2024

If you’re buying anything from a man who brags about doing ketamine you’ve got a risk issue.

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Ian Makgill @imak.bsky.social · 03/09/2024

That’s a case which absolutely isn’t related to tax and was rather stupidly promoted as a tax issue by parents.

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Ian Makgill @imak.bsky.social · 03/09/2024

I mean if he’s really petty he’s going to randomly break down Teslas on all the commuting routes used by Lula and his ministers.

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Ian Makgill @imak.bsky.social · 03/09/2024

Someone described him as the Nazi Whisperer the other day and it feels such an apt description.

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Ian Makgill @imak.bsky.social · 03/09/2024

Nice article too. I feel like there’s a really strong argument for including user needs like simple, cogent logins at the point of procurement.

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Ian Makgill @imak.bsky.social · 03/09/2024

It is a finely crafted pun worthy of a salute 🫡

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Ian Makgill @imak.bsky.social · 03/09/2024

Surely the best you can say is that the evidence is inconclusive or insufficient? Any school closing now can state that their revenue for next year has been affected and despite other problems we can’t ignore the possibility that they are telling the truth.

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Ian Makgill @imak.bsky.social · 03/09/2024

I’ll guarantee that 40 of those different sign ins is because the private sector wants a gazillion pounds to adopt department standards or use other data sources.

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Ian Makgill @imak.bsky.social · 03/09/2024

Surely it’s too early to conclude that? One or two might close over the coming months especially if they lose students.

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Ian Makgill @imak.bsky.social · 03/09/2024

I’m not standing up for the Christian Brothers management practices (or principles) I’m just arguing that we can’t take the tax out of the equation. They’re wrong to ascribe the closure to solely the tax, but it is still a factor.

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Ian Makgill @imak.bsky.social · 03/09/2024

In fairness to these firms they’re rarely bought in with a wide remit to increase productivity, it’s always cost management and shiny tech. On the other hand if you gave them a remit to increase NHS productivity they’d just shutter 999 and call it a win.

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Ian Makgill @imak.bsky.social · 03/09/2024

Meanwhile there’s good literature on the link between environmental factors and productivity but giving nurses a drinks station is a luxury too far.

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Ian Makgill @imak.bsky.social · 03/09/2024

Oh god yes. It’s as if all the academic literature that can’t show a link between productivity and tools like email have been put in a drawer and ignored.

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Ian Makgill @imak.bsky.social · 03/09/2024

100% but for once *breathes a sigh of relief* this isn’t a story about procurement.

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Ian Makgill @imak.bsky.social · 03/09/2024

That’s not to say that mismanagement isn’t the primary issue, but it would be wrong to suggest that this tax is benign even when there are other issues.

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Ian Makgill @imak.bsky.social · 03/09/2024

They would surely argue that they could have put in a remedial plan that added more students, reduced costs and put up fees, and that this plan could have moved them into profit (after n yrs), but the tax means that they can’t implement that plan.

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Ian Makgill @imak.bsky.social · 03/09/2024

You can add reparations, loans and not having a management consulting industry.

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Ian Makgill @imak.bsky.social · 03/09/2024

They do aggregate, there are deals through procurement orgs like ESPO, NEPO and Crescent Purchasing that cater specifically for schools, the issue with glue is that it has got more expensive and students were being acquisitive and taking it home.

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Ian Makgill @imak.bsky.social · 03/09/2024

An interesting question is what it would take to create a Cameron? A change in outlook by the membership feels like a prerequisite.

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Ian Makgill @imak.bsky.social · 03/09/2024

Yup who wants to admit that the modern web is just a network of Python scrapers and PostgreSQL databases?

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Ian Makgill @imak.bsky.social · 02/09/2024

And here’s a dash of irony, AI is starting to solve some of those hard to fix data science issues that these companies boasted about solving 20 years ago. But there’s no love for gritty fixes when they’re trying to sell self driving cars.

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Ian Makgill @imak.bsky.social · 02/09/2024

Yes, you should have about 3 hours in Amsterdam. I’d recommend a visit to the Anne Frank museum if you get the chance.

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Ian Makgill @imak.bsky.social · 29/08/2024

I love its idiosyncrasies when I use it with the kids, but it’s pretty good at doing stuff too - DALL-E does a good flying chicken nugget and ChatGPT is great for finding gory stories for history homework.

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Ian Makgill @imak.bsky.social · 29/08/2024

This is like standing in a street and asking the nearest human to give you food, instead of finding a cafe, selecting from a menu and ordering what you want. If you want Ai to complete a task define a role, recommend an approach and specify an output.

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Ian Makgill @imak.bsky.social · 29/08/2024

Reddit continues to be the internet’s Wild West

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Ian Makgill @imak.bsky.social · 28/08/2024

Waves at a scene reminiscent of the Somme. “Welcome to the alpha release of your new home”

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Ian Makgill @imak.bsky.social · 27/08/2024

I’m sure this is exactly what happens with NHS funding they’re just a list of big numbers.

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Max Roser @maxroser.bsky.social · 27/08/2024

Our generation has the chance to eradicate polio. The key, writes my colleague @scientificdiscovery.dev, to achieving this goal are new polio vaccines. Here is her article: ourworldindata.org/new-polio-va...

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