chart showing Proportion of children living in relative poverty after housing costs, with and without policy measures announced by this Government: UK
Child poverty is set to fall sharply in 2026-27, before rising slightly for the rest of the Parliament.
“Inequality has left such a deep imprint on health and wellbeing not because it suddenly kills, but because it slowly reshapes how people live, relate, cope and age”
– Richard Wilkinson & @profkepickett.bsky.social of @equalitytrust.bsky.social
#LSEInequalitiesBlog
Kudos to our very own @ellenlaurab.bsky.social who co-designed a fantastic zine on what creativity can bring to food geographies 🙌
The zine was recently presented at the @rgsibg.bsky.social conference 🤓
Here's the online version: bit.ly/FGRG_Creativ...
Sounds excellent. Excited for it!
I've just submitted An Injury to All: The Unmaking of the British Working Class to my publisher, Verso.
My book explores how a British working class which was powerfully grounded in politics, the economy and culture has been unmade since the 1960s. An Injury to All is due for publication next year!
Not quite feel-good (!), but this *six-part* podcast by Behind the Bastards @iwriteok.bsky.social is SO interesting. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLda...
Pro wrestling is often associated with the Right, but a new character has become popular for championing solidarity and workers’ rights, reflecting the growing economic precarity of its fanbase.
In the latest issue of Significance magazine, our @johnnyrunge.bsky.social explores how the general public are using statistics from a variety of (not necessarily reliable) online sources when making big life decisions from baby names to house moves.
➡️ academic.oup.com/jrssig/artic...
Excited to meet new people and reconnect with familiar ones over the next few months. I'd love to hear about your work and share ideas, let's kick it!
Great to catch up with my old HoD @johnhudson.bsky.social in Ealing Broadway today. V much looking forward to getting back into academia! cc. @profsharonwright.bsky.social @clemmiehilloconnor.bsky.social @sgsss.bsky.social @uofglasgow.bsky.social @uofgsocsci.bsky.social @uofgussp.bsky.social
We are having a mini recruitment blitz at @britishfuture.bsky.social with a couple of exciting new projects. Apply by 15th August
Senior researcher on race equity
www.britishfuture.org/jobs/senior-...
South Asian bridgers forum: project manager
www.britishfuture.org/jobs/project...
Chart showing proportion of the working-age population who are economically inactive due to ill health, by single year of age: UK
People in their early twenties are now more likely to be out of work due to ill health than those in their early forties.
Read The good, the bad and the messy here 👉 buff.ly/0O2OHhy
Great to have @haylesben.bsky.social kicking off our @easp-spa-2025.bsky.social symposium , a chance to reflect on work we’ve been doing together on our @nuffieldfoundation.org @safety-nets.bsky.social project
🧵inciming
This is appalling. Both in substance & how it was done. @financialfairness.bsky.social is a crucial part of funding infrastructure for vital work on living standards & inequality. Gutting it with no notice & not even reassurances for grantees is really terrible. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Great breakdown from Craig explaining why the UCPIP bill is still a bad idea.
When thinking about the government's disability plans, one word springs to mind: chaos.
Stop Disability Benefit Cuts Tuesday 1st July, 1pm Old Palace Yard Westminster SWIP 3JY #WelfareNotWarfare Image of Disabled people protesting beneath with DPAC and Crips against Cuts Logo
Today is the second reading of the Government's PIP and UC Bill, that has used Disabled people's lives as pawns in their book balancing exercise.
We'll be there with DPAC outside Parliament protesting these unthinkable cuts - join us!
Anti poverty organisations all unanimously urging MPs to vote against the UCPIP Bill this afternoon, and calling on the government to carry out proper reviews and consultation before legislating.
This is too important to vote through on an act of faith.
www.ucpipbill.co.uk/wp-content/u...
Unacceptable “concessions” on the disability cuts will permanently divide the disabled community and must be rejected As disability rights organisations and grassroots campaigns, we are voicing our united and absolute opposition to the apparent concessions offered by the government on their proposed disability cuts. We know that for many, including the MPs who took a principled stand by supporting the reasoned amendment that would have killed this bill, the government’s offer looks like a win. But we have been dealing with the benefits system for years and we know the potentially lethal effects the concessions being reported will have. As disabled people, we will not accept a Bill that condemns future generations of disabled people to devastating cuts in their vital support in order to avoid that fate ourselves. Rather than fixing this Bill’s dangerous attack on disabled people, these concessions will introduce a new and cruel inequality into our communities. They will condemn young disabled people, and those yet to be disabled, to a future of poverty, hardship and worsening health. Not to mention those unable, or yet to apply due to how taxing the process of proving your eligibility is. We are absolutely clear that no amount of “concessions” will make this government Bill acceptable. Any and all cuts made to the already limited support disabled people rely on - both now and in the future - must be resisted. Disabled people have a long history of solidarity with each other and other communities - it has been essential to our survival. The desperate attempts by the Prime Minister and his whips to buy votes by selling future disabled people out - attempting to divide our community - will not work. We know these “concessions” have only come about because of the tidal wave of resistance created by disabled people and our allies over the last couple of months. They underestimated our power, and now they are underestimating our strength of solidarity. We know the …
🚨 Joint statement: Unacceptable “concessions” on the #DisabilityCuts will permanently divide the disabled community and must be rejected ⬇️
By @disrightsuk.bsky.social, @dis-ppl-protest.bsky.social, @nsunnews.bsky.social, Mad Youth Organise, Crips Against Cuts and Taking The PIP.
Government concessions on welfare demonstrate their arguments have been disingenuous from the start
However, while it is positive those receiving disability benefits today will not face a severe income shock, it creates an intolerable double standard for future claimants
A photo of four IWW pamphlets from the library's collection.
#OTD in 1905, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) was founded in Chicago, USA. Known as the “One Big Union,” it was formed out of several smaller unions and would go on to become one of the most radical organisations within the labour movement.
📢 Our friends at bookhaus have built one of the country’s most vital radical bookshops—a cultural hub rooted in activism, community & resistance.
Now the shop is up for sale. Support the crowdfunder and keep bookhaus in radical hands: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/bookhaus--...
Who will be most affected by changes to the PIP assessment?
@louisemurphy.bsky.social explains the probable impacts on different groups by age and condition.
The flammability of historic buildings that are the subject of longstanding contentious planning disputes is really worryingly high. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
UPDATE- I’m told there are 99 signatures
This could be the fatal blow these cuts-posing-as-reforms deserve
Supporting more disabled people into work is a welcome aspiration, but cutting benefits for this group to meet an imposed savings target, with no meaningful consultation, is neither supportive of nor justified by that objective
‘Youths everywhere were spitting over tinny beats playing off a Nokia’: great grime photographer Simon Wheatley
Two Policy Assistant roles available for people just starting out in this sector. Could be a great opportunity for those just about to graduate from @uoysbs.bsky.social
Being in work no longer guarantees that people can provide for their family.
Watch @ruthcurtice.bsky.social on BBC Panorama discussing the economic challenges facing Britain today.
Catch up here ➡️ buff.ly/IzHfBtB
We've seen alarming trends in in-work poverty in the UK - despite rises in the Living Wage.
I've written a piece for @lsepoliticsblog.bsky.social looking at the role 'good work' can play in tackling this, based on @neweconomics.bsky.social analysis:
blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...
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