What might Burnham's fiscal devo mean for current strategic authorities? We worked out what assigning 1p, 2p and 2.5p in each pound of basic rate income tax would mean in revenue terms 🧵

💥The Times covering two areas of our research today: 1. Our proposal to fund social care costs through a new social insurance model. 2. Proposals for fiscal devolution ahead of Andy Burnham's speech, and the move towards retained income tax where @alwalker.bsky.social is quoted.

Social care - the third rail of British politics Great to see Burnham acting on, rather than just talking about, the social care crisis But there is a real risk that the choices he makes could actually make things worse... 🧵

The Telegraph's Tony Diver reports this morning that the Government are considering our proposal for a mandatory social insurance model to fund care costs, as part of the PM's plans to fast-track the Casey Commission.

This week, EFF and 60+ organizations wrote to UK politicians urging that they halt plans to use to deploy facial age estimation to assess asylum-seeking children from 2027. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

EFF Joins 60+ Groups Urging the UK to Halt Face Estimation at the

This week, EFF joined Foxglove, Human Rights Watch, and 60 other organizations in writing to the UK’s Minister of State for Border Security and Asylum, Alex Norris, raising serious concern about the

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The Re:View is out! 🎉 This week, @matthewfeeney.bsky.social asks what recent debates on social media, AI and digital sovereignty reveal about the Government's approach to technology policy. Read more 👇 restate.substack.com/p/the-review...

The Re:View 19 June 2026

I am aware that I am facing stiff competition for your attention this morning. Many people who keep an eye on public policy and politics today will be not unreasonably focussed on the result of yester...

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Yesterday, the Cabinet Secretary laid out her ambitious Civil Service reform agenda. There was a lot to welcome and applaud. But, as I explain, a lot of Romeo's success depends on details that have yet to emerge. restate.substack.com/p/the-cabine...

The Cabinet Secretary's Civil Service vision

Yesterday, Cabinet Secretary Dame Antonia Romeo appeared before the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee to answer questions about, among other things, the reforms she is underta...

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Whitehall is coded safety-first – fixing the UK’s problems must start with incentivising civil servants to be bolder ✍️ @matthewfeeney.bsky.social https://www.politicshome.com/opinion/article/whitehall-coded-safetyfirst-fixing-uks-problems-start-incentivising-civil-servants-bolder

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How do you fix Britain? Remake the State. Less than 3 weeks to go until our flagship annual conference, taking place in London on 1 July. Delighted to welcome The Rt Hon Darren Jones MP, The Rt Hon Steve Reed MP, Nick Timothy MP and Danny Kruger MP as keynote speakers.

✉️The Re:View is out! This week, @matthewfeeney.bsky.social writes about why we aren't saving enough for retirement, and how local authoriteis could do better public service reform. restate.substack.com/p/the-review...

The Re:View 5 June 2026

If you are a keen observer of the news, you could be forgiven for thinking that politics is mostly concerned with the scramble politicians perform as they tackle one crisis after another.

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🚨 NEW FROM THE DEVO NEXT INITIATIVE 🚨 The Chancellor’s commitment to develop a fiscal devolution roadmap represents a significant opportunity. Re:State's Devo Next Initiative today publishes a set of design principles to realise the full potential of fiscal devolution.

📣 New research: today we published Building the Preventative State, the summary paper of a series of roundtables and workshops we ran last year on how to deliver prevention in public services. This programme has kindly been supported by Newton. re-state.co.uk/publications...

"I am proud to announce that for the first time ever, we are introducing performance-based pay progression for the senior civil service" @darrenpjones.bsky.social has just laid a written ministerial statement announcing changes to SCS pay. This is v good...🧵

In case you missed it 📣 Last week we published 'A new Civil Service Code', the first attempt in two decades to rewrite the Code and make it fit for the challenges of modern government, by @matthewfeeney.bsky.social @charliepickles.bsky.social, @jo3hill.bsky.social re-state.co.uk/publications...

A new Civil Service Code - Re:State

Criticisms of the Civil Service seem to be a constant feature of our politics, with government after government promising to drive  reforms to modernise a Whitehall machine that is too slow, too siloe...

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The Re:View is up ⬆️ This week @alwalker.bsky.social takes a look at the ideas shaping the Labour leadership contest from @labourgrowth.bsky.social and the Tribune Group. restate.substack.com/p/the-review...

The Re:View 15 May 2026

“But where we need vision, we have a vacuum.

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📢In case you missed it: Last week we published 'Beyond caring', which makes the case for a fairer and more sustainable social care funding model for later life - based on a 'prefunded' system with contributions over the course of working life. re-state.co.uk/publications...

Beyond caring: a new funding model for later-life social care - Re:State

At every point in the system and for many involved, the social care funding model is failing. This crisis is only accelerating in the face of an ageing population and the growing cost of delivering ca...

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I am thrilled to announce my big new project, Liberalism.org. Coming 3/12. It’s is a journal of liberal ideas, edited by @jkuznicki.bsky.social, with new podcasts from me and @uncanonical.net. It’s a project of @theihs.org, and has a superstar lineup of contributors. Sign up to get notified here:

Liberalism.org - Coming Soon

An Online Magazine for Free & Open People. Coming soon.

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We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...

Police shouldn’t get ‘open-book’ access to your phone. In a major boost for digital privacy, Michigan now demands tailored warrants. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Fourth Amendment Victory: Michigan Supreme Court Reins in Digital

When police have a warrant to search a phone, should they be able to see everything on the phone—from family photos to communications with your doctor to everywhere you’ve been since you first

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It is a sad indictment on much of the American media that someone asking one of the most powerful politicians in the world a basic question is considered groundbreaking or noteworthy.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · last yr.

WATCH: “You’re a U.S. senator and you don’t know anything about the country you want to topple.” Tucker Carlson embarrasses @sentedcruz as he pushes for war with Iran

The government is pushing for amendments to the Crime and Policing Bill with the explicit intent of accessing information stored in foreign servers and two-factor authentication codes. hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2025...

Seven years ago, ‪@davidjbier.bsky.social‬ and I wrote a paper on CBP drones. We noted that CBP had stated "that it does not deploy [drones] to monitor protests and other activities protected by the First Amendment." www.cato.org/immigration-...

Drones on the Border: Efficacy and Privacy Implications

The U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s drone program undermines Americans’ privacy and has failed to live up to its expectations.

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Trying to not think about the Great Filter and concentrate on science being neat. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Scientists find promising hints of life on distant planet K2-18b

Scientists find new but tentative evidence that a faraway world orbiting another star may be home to life.

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The Investigatory Powers Tribunal has rejected the Home Office’s attempt to keep the proceedings of the Apple encryption-breaching case secret. The tribunal did not buy the government's national security arguments. t.co/6K5gtZ2osf

There's quite a lot of unhelpful reporting suggesting that high ranked natsec officials shouldn't use @signal.org because it's compromised. No. Use Signal.* *But if you're a high ranked natsec official maybe don't use your personal phone for work and obey record retention laws.

You could write a whole Coase Theorem exam based on this one article. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Nacton giant warehouse leaves neighbours 'in tears'

Residents say the 'megashed' towers over their homes, dominating the skyline and blocking the sun.

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I knew before clicking on it that he was going to cite "fire in a crowded theatre". Just knew it.

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ICE Acting Director Tom Homan comments on arrest of Mahmoud Khalil, saying "free speech has limitations"

"The British government’s undisclosed order, issued last month, requires blanket capability to view fully encrypted material, not merely assistance in cracking a specific account, and has no known precedent in major democracies." Then it exceeds the scope of TCNs. Unless it is for bulk intercept?

Matt Burgess (WIRED)@mattburgess1.bsky.social · 2y ago

Wow. There have been fears of the UK government using a technical capability notice to demand encryption backdoors for years. Now it’s happened. UK is demanding Apple provide access to encrypted cloud backups Great @joemenn.bsky.social scoop

TCNs create a capability that can only be used by the operator to provide data in connection with a relevant authorisation, which is either a targeted interception warrant, communications data warrant, equipment interference warrant, or bulk interception warrant

Extraordinarly bad for everyone’s privacy and security. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

U.K. orders Apple to let it spy on users’ encrypted accounts

Secret order requires blanket access to protected cloud backups around the world, which if implemented would undermine Apple’s privacy pledge to its users.

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