Jake

Policy person. Heritage, capability, wellbeing, housing and better public services, flapjacks & crime fiction. Tweets are my views and ideas, if that.

[Jake @JakeEliot]

Disruptive innovation.

[Jake @JakeEliot]

'No star is ever lost we once have seen,
We always may be what we might have been'

- ‘Legend of Provence’, Adelaide Anne Procter

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[Jake @JakeEliot]

@rich_w Bless you Rich! Hope you and the family are doing well.

You're right, of course. Usually just confirmation of one's own geopolitical and historical bias but I'd consider
Battle of Sedan, Franco-Prussian War 1870 or Battle of Actium 31 BC, which helped end Roman Republic.

[Jake @JakeEliot]

@jeffreyjohnbell @RoryStewartUK There's a couple of lads who know a thing or two about long walks.

[Jake @JakeEliot]

Vital issues for future food historians to adjudicate:

1. When did salted caramel displace all caramel?

2. When did the representative idea of a croissant collapse allowing anyone to put anything in a croissant?

3. When did "Biscoff" coalesce into its own distinct flavour?

[Jake @JakeEliot]

"...modification of a governance system is just as interesting as building a tower in Shanghai, if not more so."

David Chipperfield underlines one more time that the best solutions to architectural problems are not always new buildings.

[Matthew Mckeague @MEMckeague]

Lovely piece by @RowanMoore on David Chipperfield's Fundación RIA, an initiative that gives 'special attention to the quality of public space, heritage conservation and the reactivation of degraded areas' in Galicia. https://t.co/gA1aLVDonD

[Jake @JakeEliot]

The differences of opinion aired in the Guardian's "Dining across the divide" seem smaller and more easily surmountable over dinner than those discovered by the participants in their Blind Date column.

Could they try just swapping the personnel around?

https://t.co/Q9j0ZxnFlI

[Jake @JakeEliot]

There's that famous George Orwell line that 'in a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act'.

Increasingly think that given local funding dilemmas, leaders prioritising their assets' long-term return over immediate disposal value to developers = vital innovation

[Jake @JakeEliot]

@audibleuk Hello Audible. Have you removed the "Download in parts" option from your android app and not told anyone?

It's not longer available in data settings , where Audible Help says it should be, customer services were useless but Reddit suggests others have same issue.

[Jake @JakeEliot]

"customers should take note of how this company operates"

An eye-watering reminder that Revolut doesn't hold a full banking licence. It is not signed up to the industry reimbursement code to refund scam victims who have not been unduly negligent. Yikes.

https://t.co/tFUge6q2lk

[Jake @JakeEliot]

@TACJ Erik Hoel has a bad habit or ignoring / deliberately not sharing the actual findings for the sake of high-engagement tweet. The source article gives this a worked example to warn of limits of polygenic indices for individual-level prediction. https://t.co/o6Wegk4UhV

[Jake @JakeEliot]

@RosamundUrwin @sciencemuseum @young_vam Museum of London Docklands has the brilliant Mudlarks gallery for children, bit of a hidden gem.

Also, your nearest city farm: loads of space to roam and usually quite chilled even in easter rush. Stepney, Mudchute, Vauxhall, all brilliant.

[Jake @JakeEliot]

"Independent business owners seem to understand the trade-offs of buying local better than some of their more zealously locavore customers..."

@JulianBaggini on the different routes to think and buy 'local', multi-level communities and localism as pure jealousy of the French.

[FT Property @ftproperty]

What does ‘local’ actually mean? https://t.co/QphnmRIe7O

[Jake @JakeEliot]

"He only gangster on his computer!!"
Lewisham bus stop (2024)

[Jake @JakeEliot]

I had hoped my #Couchto5k finale would feature more sunshine and poetry than the vibe of my twenty four hour gym late at night on Good Friday.

Mind you, last Easter I was hobbling around with sciatica feeling ancient + useless. Not on Olympic form, but, yes! The Baron is back!

[Jake @JakeEliot]

Never studied for an MBA, so regard myself as allergic to 3D concept diagrams that could be storyboards from Tron (1982).

BUT! @WhatWorksWB's layers of social capital are a fascinating nuanced build to thinking about just bonding versus bridging (hat tip, @Work_Life_You)

[Nancy Hey @Work_Life_You]

@JakeEliot We use this to understand levels and elements of social captial. I think generalised trust is bridging.

Trust (both for good intent and ill) is built mostly in small moments of positive social connection

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[Jake @JakeEliot]

@Work_Life_You Really helpful and full reply, thank you! Fascinating relationship then between meso /macro policy incentives and reality of relational, micro moments of social connection over time. Appreciate you taking the time to reply.

[Jake @JakeEliot]

@georgialewis76 Thank you for your service 🙏

[Jake @JakeEliot]

@youngvulgarian Indeed. Political philosophy emerges via practical policy advice too!

It was notable in civic / third sector policy circles that Starmer appointed Claire Ainsley as Exec Director of Policy from JRF, and Vidhya Alakeson as External Affairs Director from Power to Change Trust.

[Jake @JakeEliot]

@EmilyClareBird What a great campaign! Will read with interest. 👍👍✌️