The theme of the walk was still blue
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Stefan Czerniawski
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Working to make public services work better where policy and delivery come together. Most active on Blue Sky.
@jon @mattfullerton It may not be (not sure if the blue sky bridge works both ways):
@Edent It is going to be generally true that active church members who die have church funerals. But it is certainly not true that people who have church funerals were all previously active church members. And in CoE particularly, confirmation is likely to be a far stronger marker of actual commitment than baptism - but even then it is far from true that everybody confirmed but not yet dead is active in the church or even still has any religious beliefs at all.
@Edent You can't subtract baptisms from funerals to get a deficit, because neither number directly relates to regular worshippers or to people who in any active sense think of themselves as church members. So it isn't an inflow->stock->outflow model.
Which doesn't change your wider point that the stock is ageing and shrinking.
This is not - so very much not - a standard professorial inaugural lecture.
It is though a tour de force, a proud telling of a story deserving of much pride.
If you care about any or all of health, data, privacy, systems of government and presentational pizzazz, this is well worth watching.
Ben Goldacre's inaugural lecture: a whistlestop tour of everything we do!
@Edent I still have a Twitter app, though I hear there's been some rebranding since then.
@mattedgar The first money I ever earned was in the church on the far bank in your picture - bell ringing for weddings. It's a small world.
It seems that Blue Peter is 65. At least according to the BT Tower, and if that can't be trusted, where are we?
Whitehall as it was and as it is, courtesy of @samuelpepys