Joe Fyans

@jonathanwerran @SmartThinktanks @Localis @callinmclinden

Seems fair to me.

Major blow to postmodernism as majority in UK support a fixed and objective meaning to the word 'Alert'.

RIP John Prine youtube.com/watch?v=2xhmPect…

The fiscal autonomy of #localgov in the UK, in terms of self-raised revenue, in comparison with other OECD countries. From the research for upcoming @Localis work with @LGAcomms on fiscal headroom at home and abroad: bit.ly/38QazNs #rstats #ggplot

its a form of localism, I suppose

Long-term GVA growth in London and the Mayoral Combined Authorities - from research for upcoming @Localis report with @londoncouncils entitled New Mayoral Models bit.ly/2IbjHS6 #rstats #ggplot2

#localgov nerds - interesting journal article comparing local government responses to the financial crisis in different systems tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

Great map

We absolutely have to get real about tackling this major cause of homelessness and poor wellbeing if we're going to improve as a society, the time for tinkering around the edges of the private rental sector and hoping for the best has long since passed. #Marmot2020

#Marmot2020 on the accumulation of poor environmental conditions and ensuing widening of the gulf as cuts take effect.

A great case study from #Marmot2020 which shows the positive local impacts of ESOL training, which has been being cut back since before austerity even began.

...For local authorities and the public services they provide, the update shows that the cost is, at very best, stasis. To pick one indicator, neither the preventable mortality rate nor the inequality in that rate between local authorities has shown any real improvement...

..If it's 'cutting the deficit' then it has succeeded, general government deficit is significantly lower than in 2010 per the ONS. If instead a policy's success is measured on wider impact then the question is, "at what cost?"..

New @ONS release has the percentage of people who believe they can influence local decision-making flat at around one in four. Extending the franchise and opening up local governance to communities is a key theme in current @Localis project 3D Vision: bit.ly/328yFS3

Tell me about it, Mahler.

Getting roads built in Eisenhower's America. 'No Little Plans' by Ian Wray has a lot to say to a country looking to achieve an awful lot of infrastructure upgrade in a relatively short space of time, with multiple competing layers of interest and goverance groups.