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Mike Chitty

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Leadership, management and enchantment. open.substack.com/pub/freshthinking what if beneath all the noise there’s still a song playing ancient, unbroken, waiting? www.eventbrite.com/cc/an-introducti…

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Mike Chitty @mikechitty.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Neighbourhood that had no Plan joyofparticipation.substack.com/p/the-neighb...
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The Neighbourhood That Had No Plan
A story in The Living Places
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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It's a rare gift, to know where you need to be, before you've been to all the places you don't need to be.
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Andy Brown @andybrown1951.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Starmer promised Britain we would stay out of Trump's reckless war. Instead Trump's bombers are taking off from British soil using information gathered from British based listening stations. Burnham has let this continue. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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What we know about RAF Fairford incident and counter-terror probe
Five men have been arrested as counter-terror police lead an investigation into a major incident near the airbase.
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Mike Chitty @mikechitty.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
What if Neighbourhood Health is no primarily about Health Services? freshthinking.substack.com/p/what-if-ne...
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What if Neighbourhood Health isn’t mainly about health services?
Have we got things upside down?
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Mike Chitty @mikechitty.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
What kinds of neighbourhood become possible when health services participate in the life of a place, rather than requiring the life of the place to participate in the health service?
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Mothin Ali @mothinali.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
🧵 You've heard the one sided attack, but the right wing rags or the wreckers working internally don't get the final say. It's time to speak out.
🧵 Since I announced that I was standing to become Deputy Leader of the Green Party, I have been subjected to a sustained series of allegations, complaints, leaks and personal attacks. Some have been explicitly racist and Islamophobic.

It didn't stop when I was elected.
I have tried not to respond to every allegation. I've tried to be patient, trust the proper processes and let the evidence speak for itself.
But there comes a point when you have to look at the pattern.
In early August, allegations were made about the Special Responsibility Allowance allocated to me by the Leeds Green Group.
The Head of Democratic Services looked at it. The Office of the City Solicitor looked at it. Both confirmed that the Green Group had acted properly.
The allegations continued.
Now Leeds City Council's Internal Audit team has completed a further review. We have received confirmation that:
"The payment for the Special Responsibility Allowance (Opposition Group Officer Holder) has been made by the council in accordance with normal practice, and that the council has discharged its role appropriately."
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Mike Chitty @mikechitty.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Me banging on about productivity in the NHS again… freshthinking.substack.com/p/what-if-pr...
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What If Productivity Is the Fruit, Not the Root?
The NHS desperately needs to become more productive. But what if pursuing productivity directly is part of the reason it struggles to do so?
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Mike Chitty @mikechitty.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
What can you do when the system asks you to do something that feels wrong? Not dramatically wrong. Not whistleblowing wrong. But at odds with what you know good work, good care or good leadership requires. I call the practice of noticing and responding to those moments relational disobedience.
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Mike Chitty @mikechitty.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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The Listening Machine
Exploring the Field of Forces
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Mike Chitty @mikechitty.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
If you believe that you can ‘manage population health’ you might do well to ponder this…
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Mike Chitty @mikechitty.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This isn’t ‘protest’ it’s attempted murder…
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Mike Chitty @mikechitty.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
A new story about care, power and commodification in The Fresh Thinking Atlas, where you might rediscover The Joy of Participation... joyofparticipation.substack.com/p/the-listen...
joyofparticipation.substack.com
The Listening Machine
Exploring the Field of Forces
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Mike Chitty @mikechitty.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
A new story about care, power and commodification in The Fresh Thinking Atlas, where you might rediscover The Joy of Participation... joyofparticipation.substack.com/p/the-listen...
joyofparticipation.substack.com
The Listening Machine
Exploring the Field of Forces
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Mike Chitty @mikechitty.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I guess pedalling harder is one way to break the cycle…
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Mike Chitty @mikechitty.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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freshthinking.substack.com
An Introduction to Relational Disobedience
Eight Monday afternoons, beginning 19 October 2026
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Mike Chitty @mikechitty.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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The Myths of More and Enough
A tale of two civilisations - maybe three?
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Mike Chitty @mikechitty.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Billionaires have no more right to feel confidrnt than the rest if us. We stay and try because we must. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Billionaire Manchester United owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe says he has lost confidence in UK
Ineos founder Sir Jim Ratcliffe tells the BBC he thinks the country is "on the slide" and calls for more investment in the North Sea.
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
just as tinkerbell requires kids to clap to survive, trump needs media attention or he’ll die. so when he pulls this shit, they ALL need to tell him to get stuffed. boycott his pressers. ignore his social media blurps. reporters don’t need access to lies and liars to do their jobs.
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Trump bans CNN, MS Now and Politico from the White House
US president has overseen an unprecedented restriction of access for major traditional news media since start of second term
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Mike Chitty @mikechitty.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Is destiny something you can control?
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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
After lifting the trophy, this player skipped the usual VIP photo and pulled the stadium janitors in for the championship shot instead
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Mike Chitty @mikechitty.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
What would change if, instead of trying to make a difference to the place where we live, we tried to become worthy members of it?
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Mike Chitty @mikechitty.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
If Farage gets into No10 I will declare a state of emergency…
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Mike Chitty @mikechitty.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
What are we called to remain faithful to while the outcome remains unknowable?
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Mike Chitty @mikechitty.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Mr Burnham. The problem of small boats is real. However if you don’t address the much greater risk of hordes of black shirted, balaclava wearing men then what is the point of a Labour government…
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Mike Chitty @mikechitty.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
What is a care home for? freshthinking.substack.com/p/what-is-a-...
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What is a Care Home For?
Putting care before the business case
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Mike Chitty @mikechitty.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Wordle 1,905 3/6 🟨⬜🟩⬜🟩 ⬜🟨🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 WordleBot Skill 99/99 Luck 61/99
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Mike Chitty @mikechitty.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Wordle 1,904 3/6 🟨⬜🟨🟨🟨 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Grrr….😡
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Mike Chitty @mikechitty.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Does the care organisation exist to provide a return to capital? Or does capital exist to enable the organisation to care? Those two arrangements look similar on a balance sheet, but ethically, they are worlds apart.
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Yorkshire Bylines @yorkshirebylines.co.uk · 03/09/2026
Yorkshire’s dirty business: will the region’s mayors hold polluters to account? Environment Agency disclosures reveal low attendance at reported pollution incidents and sharp changes between initial and final assessments, intensifying questions about oversight and accountability By Kirsty Tucker
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
Yorkshire’s dirty business: will the region’s mayors hold polluters to account?
Environment Agency disclosures reveal low attendance at reported pollution incidents and sharp changes between initial and final assessments, intensifying questions about oversight and accountability
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Mike Chitty @mikechitty.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
This is one of the characteristic movements of managerialism: things that have intrinsic value are translated into instrumental value so that they can enter our systems of measurement, comparison and control.
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Mike Chitty @mikechitty.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The purpose of economic life is to support care, rather than care existing to support economic life.
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Mike Chitty @mikechitty.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Joy is experienced as we participate more faithfully in the unfolding of life. Perhaps... joyofparticipation.substack.com
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Mike Chitty @mikechitty.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
This is the Fresh Thinking Atlas. It has 10 landscapes each containing stories and companions designed to help you explore and build your own capacity in each landscape. I will be adding stories to the Atlas in the coming weeks and months each exploring different aspects of their territory.
The ten landscapes of the Fresh Thinking Atlas
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Talking about public control is just tinkering and on Thames Water he’s even tinkering with the tinkering by backtracking. If he wants hope: tax the wealthy, take water back under public ownership, bring in rent controls & no to new North Sea drilling. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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More public control is only way to grow UK economy, Burnham to tell MPs
Exclusive: Prime minister wants to ‘bring back hope’ by tackling cost of living as MPs call for electoral reform
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Mike Chitty @mikechitty.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
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Fresh Thinking is growing another place
The stories are moving into the Atlas. The essays are staying here. I hope you’ll wander between the two.
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Mike Chitty @mikechitty.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Connections Puzzle #1177 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟨🟨🟨🟨
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Mike Chitty @mikechitty.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Connections Puzzle #1176 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦
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Mike Chitty @mikechitty.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
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A Community of Fools and Knaves? Or...
A place of wonder, magic and discernment...
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Mike Chitty @mikechitty.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Connections Puzzle #1172 🟦🟩🟪🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 Skill 88/99 Uniqueness 1 in 323
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Mike Chitty @mikechitty.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Communities are less like machines than like music. Not because they are sentimental, but because harmony emerges through continual listening, not through continual control. And each community plays its own tune, no composer, no conductor...
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Mike Chitty @mikechitty.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Wordle 1,893 5/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 WordleBot Skill 91/99 Luck 27/99
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Mike Chitty @mikechitty.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Connections Puzzle #1171 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪
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Mike Chitty @mikechitty.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Whenever power becomes enthroned, it begins asking for sacrifice. The forests fall silent, the rivers grow bitter and the skies darken. Yet the people continue singing hymns of growth. Perhaps they cannot yet imagine another song.
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Mike Chitty @mikechitty.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
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Mike Chitty @mikechitty.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
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Mike Chitty @mikechitty.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
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Mike Chitty @mikechitty.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
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Rick @flipchartrick.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
In Britain, the ‘good chaps’ theory of government died when Boris Johnson took office. We have been warned.
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Mike Chitty @mikechitty.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Wordle 1,890 3/6 🟩⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 WordleBot Skill 81/99 Luck 70/99
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Mike Chitty @mikechitty.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
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