37 years ago, 97 football fans were killed because of state incompetence. After decades fighting, we got the truth, but no accountability. Despite a police conspiracy to lie to the public inquiry, no-one was ever convicted of perverting justice. It's why need the #HillsboroughLaw now #jft97 #ynwa
From yesterday: Earned settlement: retrospective change is wrong but prospective change is even worse | colinyeo
Very good post from @chriscurtis94.bsky.social on why we need trams and how development could me made easier and cheaper by devolution, reconfiguring costs, and making environmental approval processes more sensible
Really clear account from @draliceevans.bsky.social of why economic growth matters to gender equality and how the stats we commonly use may not be telling us what we think
What's the most under-rated driver of gender equality?
(In praise of job-creating economic growth)
www.ggd.world/p/whats-the-...
Isn't it wonderful to see your kids growing up: three years ago I had to spend two hours of my life I'll never get back taking my daughter to the Mario Bros movie. Today I'm sat in the Costa at the Odeon looking at Bluesky whilst she's in there watching the sequel with a friend #progress
In addition to the right laws, improving the labour market requires workers to have the ability to enforce their rights, and good employers confident they can’t be out-competed by the bad. Enlarging the class of workers dependant on their employers will do the opposite. /end
But this means employers who want to treat workers better face competitive pressure from those who don’t. And Shabana Mahmood is just about to give them a licence to get away with it for even longer. /3
As @colinyeo.bsky.social and Citizens Advice (www.citizensadvice.org.uk/policy/publi...) have pointed out, those with sponsored visas depend entirely on their current employer for their immigration status and so are at much greater risk of exploitation from unscrupulous employers. /2
Shabana Mahmood's 10 to 20 years settlement policy will undermine workers' rights throughout the labour market and go directly against the intentions of the Employment Rights Act and the government's good work agenda. /1
"The UK spent 75 years building something genuinely worth having: a track record of successful integration. And now a Labour government plans to blow it all up."
@colinyeo.bsky.social on the permanent damage of the "earned settlement" proposals
wewantedworkers.substack.com/p/earned-set...
Asked for their preferences, straight, British Social Attitudes finds a strong preference for the norm as < 5 years, with many more people preferring 3 years to 10 years.
The Labour findings are more liberal than the median.
This shows the More in Common poll cues mattered a lot.
This is a real stretch.
This one poll finding the Home Office are using
> Has a cue about record net migration in framing; no balanced cue
> Uses affirmation bias cue: describes govt policy,
> Does not accurately state the policy (15 years for most)
Straighter Qs get different results
The wealth gradients go thusly
Destitute
Poor
Middle class
Well off
Rich
Super rich
So rich that The Times calls you middle class
Nigel Farage is undermining democracy, not promoting or protecting democracy, when he loudly alleges fraud every time he loses a constituency where there are any visible Asian voters, yet has NEVER once actually brought any evidence to any authority of his allegations, despite OFTEN saying he will
BMA staff being on strike because the BMA offered them below inflation pay rises for all their work supporting BMA members in their own industrial action may be the most BMA thing ever to happen
My best moments seeing Mo Salah at Anfield were against Utd:
1: running the length of the pitch to bang in the second on 19 Jan 2020 - "We're gonna win the league" booming out for the first time that season.
2: having a hand in five out of the seven in the 7-0 on 5 March 2023
What a legend
Maternal mortality rates in Romania climbed following tight restrictions on abortion Line chart of estimated maternal mortality (deaths per 100,000 live births) from 1965 to 2010, with two labeled series: "Total maternal mortality" and "Maternal mortality from abortions." A vertical marker near the late 1960s indicates "Abortion restricted" and another at 1990 marks "Abortion relegalized." Both series rise after restrictions, with abortion-related deaths forming the bulk of total by the 1980s (annotation: more than 80 percent of maternal deaths were caused by unsafe abortions). Both series peak in the late 1980s — total roughly 160 to 170 per 100,000 and abortion-related roughly 140 to 150 — then drop sharply immediately after relegalization and continue declining through the 1990s and 2000s to low levels around 20 to 30 per 100,000 by 2010. Note: maternal deaths include deaths during pregnancy (including abortion), childbirth, and in the 42 days afterward.
In 1966, abortion was suddenly restricted for most women in Romania.
In the decades that followed, maternal mortality increased, and by the 1980s, more than 80% of maternal deaths happened as a result of abortion complications.
Atrocity upon atrocity.
Every detail here is worse than the last.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
I am so full of admiration for Charlotte Nichols’ courage in talking about this - particularly awful that as a woman in public life she will have had to consider first how people might use this information against her, especially online. Hope she has all the support she needs.
Can anyone explain to me what the Blue Labour justification for this is? Who out there will vote Labour because Mahmood prevented a Sudanese Chevening Scholar? And to be honest, why won’t the PM simply overrule her?
An Indian snakebird at Keoladeo National Park
Carrying on today's #birdoftheday theme of #standinginwater, here's an Indian snakebird at Keoladeo National Park
Explains a lot about the failure of Brexit that its main adherents should right now be prostrating themselves before the US because they think that's what an independent UK means.
Labour’s Send reforms get this right: disabled children in mainstream schools is transformative for everyone | Frances Ryan
New post out:
We have a guest post today from the excellent @dsquareddigest.bsky.social.
"Build the Rail! Save the snails!"
Or how we don't need to sacrifice the environment to speed up our mad planning processes.
(Free to read)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/b...
Nobody knows what would follow regime change in Iran – but what happened in 1979 offers some pointers | Jason Burke
Day after Alex Pretti killing I complained to BBC about presentation of White House statements and evidence as equivalent. Duty of balance doesn’t extend to complicity with clear lies, I said. BBC could and should report WH making false statements as a *fact of the story*. Today I got response …
