NEW: Long-term childhood poverty in Britain rose sharply after austerity reforms 📈
The study, by @sbeduk.bsky.social (Departmental Lecturer in Comparative Social Policy) & Anna Yong found that more than 1 in 5 children born after 2013 experience poverty for at least half their childhood.

The World Bank's Business Ready Project: The Labor Topic, ILO Standards and the Role and Impact of Labour Regulation The World Bank's new Business Ready (B-READY) project replaces the controversial Doing Business index in assessing global business and investment environments and is intended to galvanise legal refor...

New in the Modern Law Review on the World Bank's Business Ready (B-READY) Labor Topic, w/Sangheon Lee
@ilo.org. The Bank's evolving deregulatory model; divergence from ILO standards; endorsement of very poor quality jobs; and the deficient assessment of labour laws' de facto effects. bit.ly/41ziI6U

Quick thoughts on the prospect of EDIS and the Crisis Management and Deposit Insurance (CMDI) package

Don't miss Durham Choral Society performing Morten Lauridsen’s Lux Aeterna and Dvořák’s Mass in D Major in Durham Cathedral. Saturday 16th May. Tickets 👉 durhamcathedral.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/...

Struggling families like mine don’t talk about the cost of living any more – now it’s the cost of survival | Ella Michalski Trying to make ends meet is an impossible effort, and things are rapidly getting worse. It’s time the government listened to people like us, says Ella Michalski of Changing Realities, a project workin...

"families like mine don’t talk about the cost of living any more – now it’s the cost of survival"

important and compelling piece by Ella from @changingrealities.bsky.social today - www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Today the two-child limit is gone. Parents have told us what this will mean for their kids:

- A first-ever birthday party for a 10-year-old
- Better quality food
- Clothes that aren't completely worn out
- Going on the school trip without getting into debt
- A new mattress
- Swimming lessons

NI becomes first part of the UK to offer paid miscarriage leave Northern Ireland becomes first part of UK to bring in legal entitlement for parents affected by miscarriage at any stage of a pregnancy to have paid leave.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

KPMG and Harvey Nichols among employers to have paid less than UK minimum wage Government steps up its enforcement of newly strengthened workers’ rights

"The Department for Business and Trade said the employers concerned had repaid more than £7.3mn to around 60,000 workers, with fines of £12.6mn also issued to 389 employers." www.ft.com/content/1837...

'We are getting punished for being self-employed' A carpenter and father from Norfolk has called on self-employed men to get paid paternity leave.

'A committee of MPs in 2025 called the UK's parental leave system "one of the worst in the developed world."' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

New ILO data confirm women face higher workplace risks from generative AI than men A new report finds that women face higher risks, as they are concentrated in tasks more prone to automation and remain underrepresented in technology and science fields.

New brief from @ilo.org on risks of generative AI to occupations dominated by women. www.ilo.org/resource/new...

We ask who has authority to bring about constitutional change & how women have long been overlooked. We draw on #feminist theories exploring subjectivity, agency, #protest, and public space to articulate what feminist approaches to constituent power could be.

Feminist Approaches to Constituent Power AbstractDiscussions on constituent power are often concerned with who has authority to bring about constitutional change, and liberal constitutionalist res

Myself & @ruthhoughton.bsky.social have a chapter out in Oxford Handbook of Constituent Power that focuses on #feminist approaches

thnx Peter NiesenMarkusPatberg & Lucia Rubinelli for the invite

academic.oup.com/edited-volum...

How much sleep does a banker need? A US court will decide Jury to rule on whether Centerview erred by sacking junior analyst who needed at least 8 hours’ rest a night

"Centerview’s chief operating officer chastised the then 21-year-old for even applying for an investment banking job given her requirements for rest." www.ft.com/content/60b3...

65. Global Governance: Promise, Power, and the Limits of the ‘Global’ In this episode of Called to the Bar, Tamsin Phillipa Paige is joined by Aoife O’Donoghue (Queen’s University Belfast), Ruth Houghton (Newcastle University), and Cher Weixia Chen (George Mason Univers

New episode of #CalledToTheBar ft @ncl-congov.bsky.social @ruthhoughton.bsky.social & her co-editors @aoifemod.bsky.social & Cher Weixia Chen on their new Research Handbook on Global Governance. soundcloud.com/calledtotheb...

All Olympic curling stones come from this Scottish island. Here’s how they’re made Every stone thrown at the Olympic curling tournaments comes from the same place — the remote island of Ailsa Craig, off the Scottish coast.

www.nytimes.com/athletic/696...

The conference on Unwritten Constitutionalism and Informality, co organised by the UCNP Project and MUNI in Brno is off to a great start! After a very interesting panel on Constitutional Culture we are now reflecting on how the Unwritten Constitution might facilitate Constitutional Resilience.

a man is riding a segway in an office with the words welcome aboard below him Alt: Michael Scott, character from the US Office, is riding a segway into an office with the words 'Welcome aboard!' below him

📣Hello Bluesky! 👋

Me (Holly Smith, new Social Media Editor), @ryanlamare.bsky.social (Editor-In-Chief), & the rest of the #BJIR board are delighted to launch our new socials today!

Join us here for all things #industrialrelations - related (is that a hashtag?)

❤️

On #In-WorkPoverty, #UKPoverty2026 reports: "In-work poverty has become a persistent feature of the labour market, with rising numbers of workers unable to achieve a decent standard of living, despite being in employment. The type and quality of work available are critical."

Poverty is deepening.

🔎 Our #UKPoverty2026 report was launched this morning.

People in very deep poverty now make up the biggest group of people in poverty, at 6.8 million people.

This is unacceptable for the fifth richest country in the world, and it has consequences.

An amazing time at the @collingwooddurham.bsky.social Burns Night formal! Thank you to @thombrooks.bsky.social for the invitation and congratulations to the organisers.

Funded PhD opportunities - Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life

The @leverhulmecal.bsky.social PhD studentships are now live here leverhulmecal.webspace.durham.ac.uk/leverhulme-c... Are you looking for a PhD programme that supports interdisciplinary approaches to algorithmic life? Closing date 26 February

“If ye wish her grateful’ pray’r
Gie her a haggis!”

Happy #BurnsNight from UofG! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Professor Pauline MacKay, Director of our Centre for Robert Burns Studies, reads from 'To a Haggis'.

#TeamUofG #ScotlandIsNow @glasgowburns.bsky.social

Shakespeare at Large: Law and the First Folio This collection celebrates the quadricentennial anniversary of Shakespeare's First Folio (1623), examining the intersection of law, literature, history, and performance through eight scholarly essays....

My work on Magna Carta, King John, 19th century theatre and a splash of pantomime has been republished in this edited collection
www.routledge.com/Shakespeare-...

From displacement to decent work: Women rebuild roads and their futures in Somalia With ILO support, displaced and host community women in Baidoa in southwest of Somalia are training as stone cobblers, earning income and rebuilding vital roads. The project promotes decent work, gend...

"When women gain access to decent work, families are lifted out of vulnerability and communities become more resilient." www.ilo.org/resource/art...

Business Ready The Development Economics Vice Presidency (DEC) is the premier research and data arm of the World Bank. DEC increases understanding of development policies and programs by providing intellectual leade...

On the recent release of the World Bank's second Business Ready report, my assessment of the labour regulation dimension of #B-READY, with Sangheon Lee @ilo.org, is available on @ssrn.bsky.social bit.ly/BRSSRN. Forthcoming in the Modern Law Review. www.worldbank.org/en/businessr...

Singing In Durham | Durham Choral Society | Durham Durham Choral Society is a mixed-voice, amateur choir that performs choral music in Durham Cathedral. We are a charity that promotes choral singing in Durham, UK.

Looking forward to seeing Durham Choral Society on Saturday 24th January - An Evening with Will Todd. Trailer 👇 www.durhamchoralsociety.org.uk

Father welcomes new parental leave rights for bereaved in Great Britain Aaron Horsey says measures in Employment Rights Act will give support ‘at one of most difficult moments imaginable’ A father who has fought for a change in the law so that bereaved parents can look after their babies after the death of a partner will tell his son he can make the “impossible” happen after new rights for workers are laid before parliament on Monday. Aaron Horsey was shocked when he discovered he had no right to take leave to look after his newborn son, after his wife, Bernadette, 31, died while giving birth at Royal Derby hospital. Continue reading...

Father welcomes new parental leave rights for bereaved in Great Britain

In those areas where the Act breaks new ground for UK law, including zero hours contract laws, analysis indicates that the adoption of similar laws in other OECD countries in the recent past has led to productivity and employment improvements.

A new report, commissioned by the Department for Business and Trade, and co-authored by a team of Digit researchers, benchmarks the protection afforded by new UK rights against those across the OECD.

www.gov.uk/government/p...