Nigel Ball

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[Nigel Ball @nigel_ball]

@dmthomas90 I've not read the book but I did blog about this exact thing at the time https://t.co/JN8koKnRoG and then went on to write a guide explaining how Government could get evidenced-based cover to run public contracts in this way habitually https://t.co/UUQzDGU0YZ

[Nigel Ball @nigel_ball]

@perk_i @CommonCapitaI @lbilli91 @jrf_uk I don't think I can quite get there on "I don't understand it, but it's good". I'm stuck on "I don't understand it". It's certainly brave, but not all brave things are smart things to do

[Dr Neil Bentley-Gockmann OBE @DrNeilB]

Great to catch up with @wiguk partners at Oxford University @golaboxford @BlavatnikSchool on our work for cross-sector collaborative leadership to improve public policy outcomes. Looking forward to launching our new report in September - watch this space! #collaborationatwork

[Nigel Ball @nigel_ball]

@LoicMnzs @ConHome Of course. Worked for them last time. Power at all costs, and for its own sake

[Nigel Ball @nigel_ball]

@solomonking Some words are just more useful. I've been an avid user of "wanji" in our household for a long time

[UK Evaluation Society @UKevaluation]

We're very excited to have @nigel_ball, the Director of the Social Purpose Lab at @UAL, joining us as one of our #keynotespeakers at #ukesconf23. The line-up just keeps getting better!

Click here to find out more and register to attend:
https://t.co/NbLBvY7C00

[Nigel Ball @nigel_ball]

@jonathancgrant @Wonkhe @LivingWageUK And ultimately the entire economy, of course

[Nigel Ball @nigel_ball]

@gquaggiotto If you believe this you are not taking a broad enough view of evaluation methodologies. Toby's alternative, "learning together", is "demonstrating impact" by another name.

[Nigel Ball @nigel_ball]

Neatly summed up by the aphorism "privatise the gains, socialise the losses"

[Sam Freedman @Samfr]

The biggest myth of utilities privatisation was that it transfered risk away from the state. If a service is essential then the risks always stays with the state.

[Loic Menzies @LoicMnzs]

Looking back over @nigel_ball & my report on rewiring the state for resilience in prep for saying a few words @Demos event on prevention with @bengglover, @pollycurtis et al later.
Optimistic that our 5 ideas in 4 areas could be a starting point for reform https://t.co/8KxRyC7aH8

[Nigel Ball @nigel_ball]

@IsyMead @LiveCanon Wow. I basically assumed you just ran them off in 10 mins...

[Nigel Ball @nigel_ball]

@JackTShaw Also 55 initiatives since 1997 promoting local join up according to @golaboxford https://t.co/iWftd87PQH

[Nigel Ball @nigel_ball]

Can anyone with sound economics explain why we don't fight inflation with tax increases? Would have the same effect of dampening demand while improving public finances. Is it because this wouldn't affect bond markets and therefore the value of the £?

[Nigel Ball @nigel_ball]

@Helen_Barnard Yes and we hit our kids with that at the same time nature hits them with adolescence. No wonder everyone finds it a bit overwhelming

[Nigel Ball @nigel_ball]

@_criminologist @stianwestlake Sometimes we can't quantify, and then we need to qualify, not just go "oh well, let's just do the stuff we can quantify".

Often I think the lack of action is because issues are systemic & repeating a "proven" intervention can't fix that

[Nigel Ball @nigel_ball]

@stianwestlake But we've been doing this heavily for at least 10 years and it often isn't leading to better policy because so many contemporary problems do not submit to "interventions" (which we know because results don't replicate). Is there funding for experimenting with new eval methods?

[Nigel Ball @nigel_ball]

Why impact investors need to stop marking their own homework - a debate piece from me and @My_impact_is in @PioneersPost - with thanks to @jessdaggers for inspiring the thoughts! https://t.co/ngryEFEHnQ

[Nigel Ball @nigel_ball]

This is very good. Our urge to reduce life's complexity to solvable problems has run out of road. Not everything has a technocratic solution - logic is not omnipotent. There are other ways of finding meaning - philosophy, wisdom, spirituality - and they have been crowded out.

[@jamestplunkett.bsky.social @jamestplunkett]

Politics has shrunk. What would it take to make it big again? Some reflections on the 1960s counterculture and what it can tell us about politics today.
https://t.co/aBfcib2qSR

[Nigel Ball @nigel_ball]

Not necessarily a third category of spending, but a subset of capital spending (big upfront cost; long tail of benefits) - as @LoicMnzs and I describe in our report on "Efficiency and Resilience" https://t.co/kH1oDp8J37

[Ben Glover @bengglover]

🚨NEW EVENT🚨

@Demos recently called for a new, third category of Treasury spending - focused on prevention.

Do you agree?

Join me @pollycurtis @KieronJBoyle @carolineslocock to discuss!

https://t.co/EEyIbebybB

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