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We're not far from manifesto madness in Scotland and Wales. Here's an article from me arguing for extra resources to develop better plans for government: civilserviceworld.com/news/a…
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After I wrote this, I realised "No way to run a rodeo..." is a phrase that I completely made up. But I like it
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Jan 31
Toot toot!
I'm on the Scotland six nations hype train, and that's a good thing given as I'm going to 4/5 of our matches.
Crossing the Rubicon in Rome next weekend - bad time to be a glass of red wine.
What are your recommendations in Dublin, Cardiff and the Italian capital?
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Stu Mackinnon retweeted
Junior Ministers Joanne Bunting and Aisling Reilly met with Adam Lang and Stuart Mackinnon from Carnegie UK to discuss the findings of the organisation’s Life in the UK 2025 Index NI report.
They also spoke about the Programme for Government Wellbeing Dashboard and how it is being used to assess population-level wellbeing here to inform future policy.
ALT Image of four people - Junior Ministers Aisling Reilly and Joanne Bunting with Carnegie UK’s Adam Lang (Director of policy, insight and advocacy) and Stuart Mackinnon (Head of communications and advocacy) ahead of their meeting at Parliament Buildings.
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18 Dec 2025
This does feel like a sort of boiling the frog approach to council tax reform ft.com/content/c28efa52-9b12…
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18 Dec 2025
I don't work on business rates any longer, but if I did I'd point out the state of the Scottish assessors' website is indicative of a wider problem: saa.gov.uk/
Every NDR reval' guddle pushes council tax reform further down the road
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Stu Mackinnon retweeted
14 Dec 2025
C’est quand même incroyable la capacité des Ecossais qui ont très peu de licenciés à exploiter le maximum de leur potentiel
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5 Dec 2025
My internal monologue might not come with an official Spotify Wrapped but if it did, it would probably look a lot like this. Read my blog about the Budget: carnegieuk.org/blog/satellit…
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27 Oct 2025
Life isn't getting better for the average person in the UK, according to the biggest independent study of UK collective wellbeing out this morning:
lbc.co.uk/article/eb59cbb12c… < Important stuff from us at Carnegie UK
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27 Oct 2025
You can explore the research more thoroughly here, on the beautiful pages designed by talented colleagues: carnegieuk.org/publication/l…
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26 Oct 2025
Wellbeing in the UK stagnates again. Carnegie UK research: independent.co.uk/news/busin…
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29 Aug 2025
With former PM Liz Truss in the news talking doom loops, read my blog about how I think our leaders should avoid the language of Armageddon: carnegieuk.org/blog/escape-f…
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16 Aug 2025
I'm fed up with all this talk of the apocalypse. Read my new blog about escaping the temple of doom: linkedin.com/pulse/escaping-…
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15 Aug 2025
After listening to a podcast about a "lethal debt spiral", I was inspired to write this blog about escaping the language of crisis: carnegieuk.org/blog/escape-f…
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19 Jun 2025
New Scottish Public Service Reform Strategy is a must read for people that are interested in getting stuff to work and the country not running out of money: gov.scot/publications/scotla…
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17 Jun 2025
This piece from @andrewlearmonth on the First Minister's speech is pretty incisive: heraldscotland.com/news/2524… At @CarnegieUKTrust we've been thinking a bit about the barriers to change...
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17 Jun 2025
The Herald also suggests that there might be a cut-back in quangos: heraldscotland.com/news/2524… A similar UK-wide move was also outlined in last week's spending review. What's happening here?
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17 Jun 2025
I do miss The Herald's leader column at times like these, even just to ask "What's different this time?"
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