Stu Mackinnon

After I wrote this, I realised "No way to run a rodeo..." is a phrase that I completely made up. But I like it

We're not far from manifesto madness in Scotland and Wales. Here's an article from me arguing for extra resources to develop better plans for government: civilserviceworld.com/news/article/b…

@bensmithrugby Ben

Scotland’s best chance of winning the 6N in a long time is here. They can beat France, historically they have a 56% win rate over them at home. 2020 and 2021 wins under Townsend the last in a 6N. Finn Russell becomes WPOY this weekend.

An important chart from the ONS

Toot toot! I'm on the Scotland six nations hype train, and that's a good thing given as I'm going to 4/5 of our matches. Crossing the Rubicon in Rome next weekend - bad time to be a glass of red wine. What are your recommendations in Dublin, Cardiff and the Italian capital?

Junior Ministers Joanne Bunting and Aisling Reilly met with Adam Lang and Stuart Mackinnon from Carnegie UK to discuss the findings of the organisation’s Life in the UK 2025 Index NI report. They also spoke about the Programme for Government Wellbeing Dashboard and how it is being used to assess population-level wellbeing here to inform future policy.

This does feel like a sort of boiling the frog approach to council tax reform ft.com/content/c28efa…

I don't work on business rates any longer, but if I did I'd point out the state of the Scottish assessors' website is indicative of a wider problem: saa.gov.uk Every NDR reval' guddle pushes council tax reform further down the road

@StadeToulousain C’est quand même incroyable la capacité des Ecossais qui ont très peu de licenciés à exploiter le maximum de leur potentiel

Your @GlasgowWarriors smashing it up against @StadeToulousain

My internal monologue might not come with an official Spotify Wrapped but if it did, it would probably look a lot like this. Read my blog about the Budget: carnegieuk.org/blog/satellite…

You can explore the research more thoroughly here, on the beautiful pages designed by talented colleagues: carnegieuk.org/publication/li…

Life isn't getting better for the average person in the UK, according to the biggest independent study of UK collective wellbeing out this morning: lbc.co.uk/article/eb59cb… < Important stuff from us at Carnegie UK

Wellbeing in the UK stagnates again. Carnegie UK research: independent.co.uk/news/business/…

With former PM Liz Truss in the news talking doom loops, read my blog about how I think our leaders should avoid the language of Armageddon: carnegieuk.org/blog/escape-fr…

I'm fed up with all this talk of the apocalypse. Read my new blog about escaping the temple of doom: linkedin.com/pulse/escaping…

After listening to a podcast about a "lethal debt spiral", I was inspired to write this blog about escaping the language of crisis: carnegieuk.org/blog/escape-fr…

New Scottish Public Service Reform Strategy is a must read for people that are interested in getting stuff to work and the country not running out of money: gov.scot/publications/s…

I do miss The Herald's leader column at times like these, even just to ask "What's different this time?"

The Herald also suggests that there might be a cut-back in quangos: heraldscotland.com/news/25243294.… A similar UK-wide move was also outlined in last week's spending review. What's happening here?

This piece from @andrewlearmonth on the First Minister's speech is pretty incisive: heraldscotland.com/news/25243411.… At @CarnegieUKTrust we've been thinking a bit about the barriers to change...