"I see [activists] getting really angry that people won't just do what the evidence tells them, and that's not very helpful. You need to actually think why that is."
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"Lots of people in the open system are very determined to try and strengthen evidence-based policy."
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"We should look at how "the enemy" - people that you wouldn't necessarily agree with - have done change and see whether there's bits in there that we could learn from."
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"What you don't do is just say, "I've got all the ideas and all the knowledge, and listen to me.""
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"Activists can get very preachy about things. It's more about understanding people's own experiences and tapping into them."
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"The question, "When did you last listen to a poor person properly and try to understand what's going on inside their own experience?" enables you to connect."
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"Often we're having an argument with something imaginary - a fixed idea of the "enemy" and the good. We need to get beyond that and actually develop a deep curiosity about people and systems and understand them better."
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"Economists who studied in the '80s tend to have a pretty crude neoclassical view that's just about freeing up prices and markets, and then you'll get the growth and everybody benefits. And they'll just repeat that, because if you're a minister or a senior civil servant, you don't have time to read anything anymore. You get very fixed in your views."
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"Floundering around, learning by doing but also by failing, is not only good but inevitable."
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"The post-Second World War simple system of social democracy and organized labour has fragmented massively, but just because people aren't organized in workplace trade unions doesn't mean they aren't in associations with other people - work-based, place-based, culture-based, sport-based, faith-based - there's a bit of an old rainbow coalition argument."
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"I keep coming back to the phrase "Dance with the system" - not just march onwards no matter what happens."
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