Louise V Durham, stained glass and driftwood sculpture, Shoreham by Sea, UK #WomensArt

Today, my book finally enters the big wide world! Exciting and also nerve-wracking! I'm really thrilled with this lovely review in The Spectator today, which describes it as "powerful and refreshing". If that sounds like YOUR cup of tea, please buy a copy! spectator.com/article/will...

Last week's Milburn Review showed how disconnected young people are from education, employment & training in the UK. But what's the picture in Scotland? We found a slightly better picture of participation here, but his concerns nevertheless ring true. Read more here:

A bleak picture for youth prospects In our latest #MondayInterview, just published, @adrianpabst.bsky.social unpacks the #MilburnReview interim findings, outlines NIESR's research in the area, and suggests some policy options available to government at different levels⤵️ niesr.ac.uk/blog/bleak-p...

Misinformation spreading on social media about the ebola outbreak in Africa is fuelling an already surging epidemic, the International Red Cross has warned. I interviewed Petra Khoury whose just returned from a week in the DRC: www.thetimes.com/article/3b8e...

Yesterday, at RHS Chelsea Flower Show🌷Darrell Gale, ADPH Healthy Places Policy Co-lead & DPH East Sussex, Dr Catherine Mbema MBE, DPH Lewisham & Prof Tracy Daszkiewicz, DPH Aneurin Bevan UHB & UK Faculty of PH President met with PH & charity sector partners to discuss gardening's health benefits.🌱

Evening stroll image: shard

Rachel Hayes, contemporary artist who creates textile based largescale outdoor (and indoor) site specific installations #WomensArt

NEW | Devolution's next steps🎙️ @andrewcities.bsky.social is joined by @antbreach.bsky.social to discuss devolution following the passing of the Devolution Act at the end of April. What is included in the Act? Why is fiscal devolution missing? Listen 🎧👇

Popped into British Library Fairy Tales exhibition on the way back from Hatfield. I have always loved the illustrator Maurice Sendak. The Wise Lion, in the Grimms' The Twelve Huntsmen. Such a louche lion.

Political nerds, I made a thing! How well do you know the UK electoral map? Could you find ten constituencies, picked at random? Test yourself! play.jmoxley.co.uk

A fifth of all GMC cases heard at tribunals last year related to sexual misconduct by doctors. In one study a quarter of the cases had a more lenient sanction than the GMC wanted - meaning doctors guilty of sexual misconduct are allowed to return to work.

🚨 Hundreds of NHS staff a year are being investigated for sexual misconduct with many allowed back to work even after being found guilty. Now Britain's top surgeon says enough is enough and a radical overhaul is needed to protect staff & patients: www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcar...

Good data is essential for policy. Today it’s been a year since we had a permanent National Statistician. No news on what is happening with the current recruitment which began Oct 2025. This is an under the bonnet issue that points to state failure 🧵 uksa.statisticsauthority.gov.uk/news/stateme...

While some in the west are pushing for a four-day working week in an age of AI, Brazil is only now looking to bring millions of its workers down from six days to five. ft.trib.al/RAiKIrM

How @camunicampop.bsky.social researchers are turning static snapshots of Victorian Britain into dynamic life histories. The team are linking over 200 million census records, revealing how people moved, worked and lived in ways never before possible. 🔎 Read on 👉 www.hist.cam.ac.uk/news/tracing...

Graduates who grew up in deep poverty still earn less than their peers ten years into their careers. @juliadelldiniz.bsky.social explains ⤵️

What the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) does and how it shapes our climate.

The rising share of young people inactive because of disability or a health condition closely tracks broader health trends. This supports an interpretation that worsening health among young people is a crucial driver of the youth-specific increase in the NEET rate. Full analysis➡️ buff.ly/gABGpwv

Latest post, on weaponised certainty and 'gold-standard' evidence: kucharski.substack.com/p/do-we-need...

French Peonies by Kamille Corry. Oil on linen over panel.

Who do Americans spend time with? This changes a lot over the course of their lives. 🧵

Join David Phillips, Guto Ifan and Dr Ed Poole from 6pm tonight at Cardiff University for our final devolved elections roadshow event on tax, spending and the economy ahead of next week's Welsh elections. ➡️ Find out more and register to attend here: ifs.org.uk/events/welsh...

🚨 We're hiring!🚨 📈 We're looking for a thoughtful and committed Principal Economist/Policy Analyst with a specific focus on economic growth and productivity.📈 Find out more ➡️ buff.ly/N4Xuj8b

Healthy Life Expectancy is just 51 for men in Blackpool and 51 for women in Hartlepool. London is 20 points ahead and improving. Linked to obesity, poverty and housing.

What do we really know about inequalities? Far more than we did six years ago, thanks to the Nuffield‑funded @theifs.bsky.social Deaton Review. This major programme set out to deliver deeper, joined‑up answers about what drives inequality and what can be done. 🔗 ifs.org.uk/inequality [1/3]

The @healthfoundation.bsky.social have now looked at how this compares with 20 other high-income countries: health.org.uk/reports-and-.... Picture is grim. The UK saw the second biggest fall in healthy life expectancy over the decade to 2021, beaten only by the US.

"A key theme was the absence of transition support when leaving secondary #education, especially for those who did not want to go to university. Many described feeling unprepared to navigate the job market." This week’s #MondayInterview is out now ⬇️ niesr.ac.uk/blog/hyper-l...

Story from the BBC here reporting the results of our new study, just published in BMJ Public Health, looking at changes in criminal offences and ambulance callouts when Aberdeen extended late-night opening hours for pubs. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... bmjpublichealth.bmj.com/content/4/2/...

The FT @financialtimes.com is hiring a new data journalist to join our US data and visuals team in New York. Great job, great team, great place to work. Apply here 👉 job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/financialtim...

Dress designed by artist, designer, painter Sonia Delaunay, France, 1925-28 #UnravellingWomensArt

Norway sold 12 petrol cars in February 2026. Out of 7,272 new passenger car registrations, 98% were fully electric. Just 67 diesel & 12 petrol cars were registered. Hybrids? Only 66 in total mostly plug ins. More in my new Substack newsletter coming out every 7 days. Sign up here: t.co/In5lBaF2ox

More in Common gave neutral/positive names to 7 different segments: inc 20% (10 million) they call "Dissenting Disrupters' which mix together people with+without extreme hostility to core democratic norms Their new study unpacks that. A good case to now separate extreme/hateful views out for good?

✨✨✨New from the @healthfoundation.bsky.social Over the past decade healthy life expectancy has dropped by ~ two years to just under 61 for both men & women. The UK is 1 of only 5 of the richest 21 countries to see HLE decline and its fall was the second steepest. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

New Nesta paper by me and colleagues: How to respond to the energy crisis (and make it the last one ever) We set out three key things the UK government should do: 1) A big push on low cost energy efficiency 2) Electrify, fast! 3) Use the crisis to lock in stable energy bills for the long term

Afternoon stroll image: crumbles-in-waiting

Early stroll. I walk through a timescape of dandelion clocks. Maybe that empty box contained birdsong. A man walks with great purpose past the shut down chip shop. A distant motorbike’s cosmic snore. I flick an apple pip high into the air.

This will unlock up to 500,000 opportunities. ✅️ £3,000 for employers who hire young people on Universal Credit ✅️ £2,000 apprenticeship incentive for small businesses ✅️ A guaranteed fully funded 6-month paid job for eligible 18–24-year-olds

Is Britain facing a baby bust? Our recent research assesses Britain’s falling birth rate since the early 2010s. Read more: buff.ly/1wohCc2

But progress has slowed recently, and nearly one in ten people worldwide still live in extreme poverty. If you want to learn more, our colleague Max Roser wrote an article about the future of progress against this worst kind of poverty: ourworldindata.org/end-progress...

📊 Data update: How many people live in poverty around the world, and how has that changed over the last decades? The World Bank's Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP) is one of the primary tools we have for answering these questions.

NEW #UofGSpotlight On the Elections 🚨 Can the next Scottish government revive the economy? 📈 Host @graemeroy.bsky.social is joined by @uofgsocsci.bsky.social’s Prof Sara Carter and @davidwglasgow.bsky.social, and @stephenboydippr.bsky.social. Tune in 🎧 uofgspotlight.com

This conference we are supporting in Birmingham in June has an amazing mix of 40 panels - a veritable Choose your Own Adventure through modern British studies. It’s also the inaugural event of the Association of Modern British Studies! Great stuff here www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/briti...

How can we make this the UK's last ever energy crisis? ⚡ Episode 4 of the Policy Fix podcast is out now. @jlowen.bsky.social sits down with @raviguru.bsky.social and @madgabes.bsky.social to untangle the latest energy shock. 🎧 Listen to the full episode: https://bit.ly/3Om0enk

Tobacco, alcohol & unhealthy food are major contributors to poor health 🚬🍺🍕 Our work on cross risk factors with @aha-uk.bsky.social & @oha-updates.bsky.social has been featured as a case study in this toolkit on advocacy from the FILTERED project... www.smokefreepartnership.eu/our-policy-w...

Submit your evidence of interventions that improve outcomes, quality of care or system performance for children and young people and help shape the upcoming children and young people's modern service framework. eu.surveymonkey.com/r/CYPCallfor...

Public transport schemes- do they affect the (hyper) local economy? My colleague Gonzalo Nunez-Chaim at @whatworksgrowth.bsky.social on the evaluation of small public transport schemes he's running w/ @yadigomezh.bsky.social & @henryoverman.bsky.social whatworksgrowth.org/insights/wha...

Tomorrow at 1:30 we’ll be hosting our first pre-election webinar. Open to everyone who is interested we’ll be talking through our Scotland and Wales MRPs out tomorrow as well as latest insights from England’s local elections. Sign up here moreincommon.zoom.us/webinar/regi...