Insight Infrastructure conference 2027
Joseph Rowntree Foundation will host a two-day Insight Infrastructure conference (22–23 March 2027) on how people and communities can shape, own and act on evidence about their lives.
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Episode 130: Radioactive Russian Drones - A Conversation with Vitaly Shevchenko
A RUSI podcast episode discusses a radiation warning found on a downed Russian drone, with Vitaly Shevchenko of BBC Monitoring exploring the incident's implications and potential security concerns.
Appendix A: Detailed Tables
Appendix A provides the detailed tables supporting Pew’s report findings, with disaggregated data and statistical breakdowns underlying the main analyses.
Britain enters ‘mega-donor era’ as million-pound political donations surge, new analysis finds
Since 2019 individuals giving more than £1m in a single year have contributed £179m — 72% of all £1m-plus individual donations since 2001. IPPR warns of an ‘Americanisation’ of UK politics and urges a £100,000 annual cap.
A lovely example of petitio principii
A commentary argues critics who say faith in technological fixes for climate change reduces support for lifestyle and societal changes are committing petitio principii, because they assume without proof that broad consumption shifts are necessarily required alongside tech solutions.
Welcoming machines as audience: A guide for nonprofit communicators thinking about AI
A practical guide for nonprofit communicators on treating AI systems as audiences, summarising key takeaways from a ComNet 2026 session and linking to Pew’s broader research on American attitudes to AI and its role as an intermediary.
Class Dismissed: Why Britain Should Stop Keeping Score
The pamphlet argues Britain should stop measuring people by class, contending class loyalty entrenches low pay and limited prospects and that social mobility requires rejecting class identity as a permanent social obligation.
Five Policy Lessons from the CFM-NIESR Survey
Five lessons from the CFM‑NIESR survey warn the new Chancellor faces the highest borrowing costs in the G7, a fiscal consolidation concentrated toward an election year and contested cash spending plans, informing short‑term budget priorities.
Options for a NATO Multinational Drone-Interception Squadron
Argues for a NATO multinational squadron of armed jet trainers to intercept and shoot down Russian drones, aiming to conserve frontline fighters and scarce air-to-air missiles while handling persistent incursions.
Joe Dromey reacts to Burnham’s speech
Joe Dromey praises Andy Burnham’s speech as the biggest of his career, calling him a Prime Minister with purpose who offers realistic hope and is prepared to tackle long‑avoided issues, notably taking a bold stance on social care.
Allow us to just interpret Willy Hutton and Andy Haldane for you here
Proposes converting utilities into public‑benefit companies with a constitutional duty to deliver high‑quality services and subordinate profitability, arguing this could be done within existing ownership and licensing frameworks to avoid costly shareholder compensation, despite potential legal challenges.
The political economy of digital public infrastructure: A series
A new UCL IIPP series examines the political economy of digital public infrastructure, arguing DPI is broader than the India Stack’s ID, payments and data exchange model and highlighting the infrastructural nature and policy implications of wider DPI choices.
New HEPI and Ellucian Policy Note ‘Risk and Resilience: What UK higher education can learn from the United States’
HEPI and Ellucian’s new policy note warns financial pressure compounds over time, drawing lessons from US university failures to explain how interconnected problems can drive UK institutions into decline and how they might spot and reverse those trends.
Episode 2: What Does a Return to Realpolitik Mean? With Professor John Bew
Podcast episode exploring the concept of realpolitik with Professor John Bew CMG, tracing the idea’s origins and assessing what a return to realpolitik means for contemporary foreign policy.
Here we go again
Reflects on the prospects of another EU referendum, warning that public debate risks repeating the low quality and polarisation of previous campaigns and considering implications for politics and policy.
What Does the Latest ONS Release Tell Us About the UK’s Productivity Puzzle?
Examines how the ONS’s revised measurement approach alters interpretation of the UK’s long-standing productivity slowdown since the 2008 financial crisis, assessing what the methodological changes reveal about levels and drivers of weak output per worker.
What could a climate council unlock for Indonesia’s climate agenda?
With a draft climate bill introduced in Indonesia, establishing a climate council could mobilise finance, improve carbon markets and strengthen policymaking; the briefing draws on models from over 25 countries to assess potential benefits and design options.
No wonder Willy Hutton gets so confused
A polemical piece arguing John Maynard Keynes remains the most insightful economist for understanding contemporary capitalism, critiquing opponents for misunderstanding Keynes’s views on market equilibrium and the role of the state.
Access isn’t enough: why universities must make the hidden curriculum visible
Argues that increased access to higher education must be matched by making the ‘hidden curriculum’ explicit, so students from underrepresented backgrounds can navigate academic and institutional expectations and succeed once admitted.
Women and families: duties to collaborate in an era of devolution
Dr Tom McNeil of the JABBS Foundation for Women & Girls argues that devolution presents opportunities to improve services for women and families, but requires new statutory or practical duties to promote collaboration between local and devolved authorities.
Internet, Science & Tech – September 28, 2026
A monthly Pew digest summarises recent internet, science and technology research, noting items like phone‑use concerns, supplement use, and attitudes among young Americans across the Centre’s latest studies.
Appendix: Additional Charts
Provides additional charts accompanying the main Pew report; the appendix offers further graphical breakdowns and supplementary data visualisations (no blurb supplied).
How Pew Research Center is – and is not – using AI in our work
Sets out Pew Research Center’s current internal guidelines for using artificial intelligence and identifies areas the organisation may experiment with, explaining what AI will and will not be used for in its work.
The wiring behind rewiring the state: Energy devolution in England
IPPR argues energy devolution in England should be reconfigured: local strategic authorities already influence housing, planning, transport and economic development, but current fragmented devolution and mismatched boundaries hinder local leadership of clean‑energy transitions.
Britain’s productivity disaster was real—but not quite as disastrous as we thought
Jonathan Portes outlines why the ONS revised UK productivity growth for 2009–19, moving on from the previously cited 0.7% figure and concluding the slowdown was real but less severe than earlier estimates implied.
Analysis: ‘Super El Niño’ reaches ‘remarkable’ all-time record
Sea surface temperatures in the tropical Pacific have reached record levels during the current ‘super El Niño’, with Carbon Brief calling the event ‘remarkable’ as it enters unprecedented territory for this climate pattern.
Olivia O'Sullivan
Olivia O'Sullivan spent over a decade in UK international development and foreign policy roles across DFID, the Cabinet Office and cross‑government teams, led foreign policy for the Open Innovation Team, and managed expert input to the 2021 Integrated Review and Rohingya response.
Prisoner early release scheme – Cassia Rowland, BBC News
Coverage flagged from BBC News on a prisoner early release scheme, highlighting media attention and public debate around the policy reform and its implications for sentencing and release practices.
Burnham speech: Message of hope is crucial, now we need honesty about the changes ahead says IPPR
IPPR welcomed Prime Minister Andy Burnham’s hopeful conference tone but urged honesty about necessary changes, saying hope must be backed by government action on long-term problems such as social care, youth unemployment, broken public services and stagnant living standards.
Development Aid as Security Policy?
Examines recent UK cuts to foreign aid, noting the humanitarian consequences and suggesting they reveal broader tensions and lessons about using development assistance as instruments of security policy.