Chris Brooker
@chrisbrooker.bsky.social
Just another designer, dad, music, art and nature lover that wants to change the world. Remembers when Twitter was about learning and community, #servicedesign. Let's go!
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..."the cost of achieving the net zero target is far lower than the cost of inaction... but if you’re saying that the political discussion is so difficult it cannot possibly be overcome by rational argument, then we’re in for a very hard time.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Climate investment is growth opportunity of 21st century, says economist
Lord Stern says fossil-fuelled growth is futile as the damage it causes ends in economic self-destruction
www.theguardian.com
October 13, 2025 at 12:01 PM
..."the cost of achieving the net zero target is far lower than the cost of inaction... but if you’re saying that the political discussion is so difficult it cannot possibly be overcome by rational argument, then we’re in for a very hard time.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Excited about the work we are doing across Defra and in the Environment Agency. It's a massive effort to coordinate and transform services across land use, sustainable development, water, #circulareconomy and all areas and #policy, delivery and #servicedesign defradigital.blog.gov.uk/2025/07/31/b...
Building a shared understanding of services
Lucy Hartley, Head of Service Strategy, Ownership and Performance, and Lisa Jeffery, Design Manager, reflect on the work being done to build a shared understanding of services within Defra’s Digital, ...
defradigital.blog.gov.uk
July 31, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Excited about the work we are doing across Defra and in the Environment Agency. It's a massive effort to coordinate and transform services across land use, sustainable development, water, #circulareconomy and all areas and #policy, delivery and #servicedesign defradigital.blog.gov.uk/2025/07/31/b...
Is AI takes the jobs, then will AI have to pay the taxes?
July 31, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Is AI takes the jobs, then will AI have to pay the taxes?
Hamleys toy shop founded 1760. United States founded 1776. Good pub quiz question.
July 15, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Hamleys toy shop founded 1760. United States founded 1776. Good pub quiz question.
From what I saw from my sofa, Doechii won Glastonbury this year.
And Kneecap. All our love and support boys.
Looked like one of the best years, 2025. Hope everyone had a great time and found some shade. #Glastonbury
And Kneecap. All our love and support boys.
Looked like one of the best years, 2025. Hope everyone had a great time and found some shade. #Glastonbury
June 30, 2025 at 8:43 AM
From what I saw from my sofa, Doechii won Glastonbury this year.
And Kneecap. All our love and support boys.
Looked like one of the best years, 2025. Hope everyone had a great time and found some shade. #Glastonbury
And Kneecap. All our love and support boys.
Looked like one of the best years, 2025. Hope everyone had a great time and found some shade. #Glastonbury
Great to see the London Design Biennale 2025 at Somerset House and UK Gov design projects and methods amongst the art and ideas from around the world, and with such a focus on planet and the environment. Given us lots of ideas and inspiration and targets for our work.
June 26, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Great to see the London Design Biennale 2025 at Somerset House and UK Gov design projects and methods amongst the art and ideas from around the world, and with such a focus on planet and the environment. Given us lots of ideas and inspiration and targets for our work.
Wow, if you want to understand Iran and what's happening in an hour and a half. Even with an informed and empathetic explanation of why Trump feels like the 2 countries (Israel and Iran), "don't know what the fuck they're doing" from Maziar Bahari. Super journalism
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Iran, Beyond the Headlines with Maziar Bahari
Podcast Episode · The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart · 26/06/2025 · 1h 33m
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June 26, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Wow, if you want to understand Iran and what's happening in an hour and a half. Even with an informed and empathetic explanation of why Trump feels like the 2 countries (Israel and Iran), "don't know what the fuck they're doing" from Maziar Bahari. Super journalism
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I think this could be my favourite Adam Curtis take and analysis on how we are where we are. Stuck in a dangerous pantomime www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio... - also a brilliant interview with Adam on 6 Music earlier this week
Thatcher, Farage and toe-sucking: Adam Curtis on how Britain came to the brink of civil war
Chaos, distrust and so many sex scandals … Ahead of his epic new series Shifty, the great documentarian charts the UK’s slide towards Whitehall’s worst nightmare
www.theguardian.com
June 13, 2025 at 12:39 PM
I think this could be my favourite Adam Curtis take and analysis on how we are where we are. Stuck in a dangerous pantomime www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio... - also a brilliant interview with Adam on 6 Music earlier this week
My wonderful mum died in December and her colleagues are raising money for cancer research. Thank you Steyning team! fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/team/steynin...
Mum hated not being able to work anymore and loved all her patients. She did the most anyone could to care for everyone. #Paynursesmore
Mum hated not being able to work anymore and loved all her patients. She did the most anyone could to care for everyone. #Paynursesmore
June 7, 2025 at 9:55 AM
My wonderful mum died in December and her colleagues are raising money for cancer research. Thank you Steyning team! fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/team/steynin...
Mum hated not being able to work anymore and loved all her patients. She did the most anyone could to care for everyone. #Paynursesmore
Mum hated not being able to work anymore and loved all her patients. She did the most anyone could to care for everyone. #Paynursesmore
"We keep moving like zombies towards a world that nobody really wants to live in". I am already tired of reading AI-created content at work. If it's not wrong, it's not even very good. But we must not let it take our art.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
‘Nobody wants a robot to read them a story!’ The creatives and academics rejecting AI – at work and at home
Is artificial intelligence coming for everyone’s jobs? Not if this lot have anything to do with it
www.theguardian.com
June 3, 2025 at 7:26 AM
"We keep moving like zombies towards a world that nobody really wants to live in". I am already tired of reading AI-created content at work. If it's not wrong, it's not even very good. But we must not let it take our art.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
“Every government I can remember has fallen back on the idea that if we can just get the economy growing, everything will be great...that’s complete nonsense..We’ve had a growing economy for the last 50-odd years and most people don’t feel any better off at all.."
www.theguardian.com/fashion/2025...
www.theguardian.com/fashion/2025...
‘Buy less!’: why Sewing Bee’s Patrick Grant wants us to stop shopping
The Sewing Bee presenter is a designer and clothing manufacturer who is also fiercely anti-consumerism. He discusses how he balances his beliefs with his business
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May 20, 2025 at 11:13 AM
“Every government I can remember has fallen back on the idea that if we can just get the economy growing, everything will be great...that’s complete nonsense..We’ve had a growing economy for the last 50-odd years and most people don’t feel any better off at all.."
www.theguardian.com/fashion/2025...
www.theguardian.com/fashion/2025...
It'd cost a lot less to rent my 2 year old a flat around the corner than it does for her to go to nursery and a childminder 4 days a week. Both parents have to work and nobody can afford more children. I don't think people want "wealth" but that's an extinction event isn't it, amongst all the others
May 14, 2025 at 10:48 AM
It'd cost a lot less to rent my 2 year old a flat around the corner than it does for her to go to nursery and a childminder 4 days a week. Both parents have to work and nobody can afford more children. I don't think people want "wealth" but that's an extinction event isn't it, amongst all the others
I don't know if there's awards for this but the cover of The Observer today is stunning. Compelling visually and in writing.
May 11, 2025 at 4:00 PM
I don't know if there's awards for this but the cover of The Observer today is stunning. Compelling visually and in writing.
Please could someone ask Radiohead to reform in time to play Eden Project 4 July. Thank you. I don't want to cancel the whole trip now we can't see Kneecap. Thom, Jon, Ed, Col, you'll love it, if you've not been before.
May 9, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Please could someone ask Radiohead to reform in time to play Eden Project 4 July. Thank you. I don't want to cancel the whole trip now we can't see Kneecap. Thom, Jon, Ed, Col, you'll love it, if you've not been before.
I like being called a radical left lunatic. I don't feel radical taking the kids to school, working, picking the kids up from school, working, taking the kids to school, working...not buying a Tesla and feeling content we've got the online food shop into a good weekly groove. Should be more radical
March 11, 2025 at 9:14 AM
I like being called a radical left lunatic. I don't feel radical taking the kids to school, working, picking the kids up from school, working, taking the kids to school, working...not buying a Tesla and feeling content we've got the online food shop into a good weekly groove. Should be more radical
..and breathe, some good news - www.theguardian.com/environment/... - really happy for my home town. Not least, my asthmatic family members that still live there.
Dramatic fall in London’s levels of deadly pollutants after Ulez expansion
People in capital breathing much cleaner air, with significant improvements in capital’s most deprived areas
www.theguardian.com
March 7, 2025 at 10:32 AM
..and breathe, some good news - www.theguardian.com/environment/... - really happy for my home town. Not least, my asthmatic family members that still live there.
The Bigots are running the Funny Farm. They haven't thought long term and how it can't work but in the meantime, it is going to take a lot more class acts like Frank Zamora.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Elon Musk and Texas governor celebrate firing of worker over pronouns in email signature
Billionaire Trump ally and Greg Abbot tweet about Frank Zamora, who was let go after refusing to remove pronouns
www.theguardian.com
March 7, 2025 at 9:47 AM
The Bigots are running the Funny Farm. They haven't thought long term and how it can't work but in the meantime, it is going to take a lot more class acts like Frank Zamora.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Feels like a world based on the continents in 1984 is forming. 3 massive states compete in a constantly changing set of battles that are, in reality, a stalemate
February 18, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Feels like a world based on the continents in 1984 is forming. 3 massive states compete in a constantly changing set of battles that are, in reality, a stalemate
Today was the first day I needed to ask an AI chat if I was speaking to a person or AI. It was maintenance and repair diagnostics service and I was 75% sure the content was AI generated but that 25% feels important and scary and slightly embarrassing.
January 15, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Today was the first day I needed to ask an AI chat if I was speaking to a person or AI. It was maintenance and repair diagnostics service and I was 75% sure the content was AI generated but that 25% feels important and scary and slightly embarrassing.
Er...should someone mention that you don't make public services more efficient by only focusing on making them more efficient. You make them more efficient by designing them so they work better for people that need them. Looking after the people that work in them more helps a lot too. Ok Thanks. Bye
November 20, 2024 at 12:56 PM
Er...should someone mention that you don't make public services more efficient by only focusing on making them more efficient. You make them more efficient by designing them so they work better for people that need them. Looking after the people that work in them more helps a lot too. Ok Thanks. Bye
So great product design (yes I still call it #productdesign) student projects like this are getting picked up! Nice one and congrats Gabriel Kay, De Montfort and www.greengrads.co.uk www.theguardian.com/environment/... Nice kettle too! Teach people to fix things again.
UK student invents repairable kettle that anyone can fix
Gabriel Kay hopes his design can help tackle the problems caused by discarded electrical goods
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2024 at 9:33 AM
So great product design (yes I still call it #productdesign) student projects like this are getting picked up! Nice one and congrats Gabriel Kay, De Montfort and www.greengrads.co.uk www.theguardian.com/environment/... Nice kettle too! Teach people to fix things again.
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So this is your chance everyone… patients, carers, paramedics, doctors, nurses, medical teams, carer teams, pharmacists, volunteers, charities, community groups, local government, entrepreneurs… all of us to share our thoughts, experiences, insights, wisdom #Change #NHS
www.england.nhs.uk
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NHS England
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October 21, 2024 at 8:50 PM
So this is your chance everyone… patients, carers, paramedics, doctors, nurses, medical teams, carer teams, pharmacists, volunteers, charities, community groups, local government, entrepreneurs… all of us to share our thoughts, experiences, insights, wisdom #Change #NHS
www.england.nhs.uk
www.england.nhs.uk
It is very exciting and a privilege to be a part of this. Exactly the place I think we wanted service design to be in when I started out. It's also a great check point and test for decades of #servicedesign theory and practise and for the good of the services and environmental outcomes we need now.
This is great from Defra - "In Defra we’re testing a new approach to service ownership […] This is our priority, to better understand whole services, how they’re performing and how we’ll make strategic decisions about how best to deliver them to our users" defradigital.blog.gov.uk/2024/10/08/d...
Defra group digital and data transformation strategy: how we’re making our services better
David Caldwell, Defra’s Deputy Director for Digital Transformation, provides an update on the work underway to transform digital services in Defra. It has been a while since we last shared what we’re ...
defradigital.blog.gov.uk
October 22, 2024 at 3:26 PM
It is very exciting and a privilege to be a part of this. Exactly the place I think we wanted service design to be in when I started out. It's also a great check point and test for decades of #servicedesign theory and practise and for the good of the services and environmental outcomes we need now.
As I'm new here and it's new music Friday, this is a playlist with most new albums I find every week each year from a variety of sources: open.spotify.com/playlist/1Up... - scroll to the bottom for the newest! #newmusic 2024 🧡
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September 6, 2024 at 10:20 AM
As I'm new here and it's new music Friday, this is a playlist with most new albums I find every week each year from a variety of sources: open.spotify.com/playlist/1Up... - scroll to the bottom for the newest! #newmusic 2024 🧡