DATE CHANGE: David Walsh and I will now be presenting the findings of our book, 'Social Murder? Austerity and life expectancy in the UK', at the Scottish Parliament on Wednesday 5th November, 6pm-8pm. If you'd like to come, message me and we can add you to the invitation list!

As part of The Scottish Wellbeing Economy Strategy Group, we are launching a new webinar series aiming to generate energy and discussion around the concept of a #WellbeingEconomy and what this means for Scotland. First up will be @gerrymccartney1.bsky.social us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

David Walsh and I will be presenting the findings of our book, 'Social Murder? Austerity and life expectancy in the UK', at the Scottish Parliament at 6pm on Tuesday 16th September. If you'd like to come, message me and we can add you to the invitation list!

3 year Research Associate post at the University of Glasgow working on the evaluation of #CommunityWealthBuilding, working with myself and colleagues at Glasgow Caledonian and Lancaster now advertised here www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/research... (now advertised for external candidates too).

3 year Research Associate post working on evaluation of #CommunityWealthBuilding working with me @uofglasgow.bsky.social and colleagues from @glasgowcaledonian.bsky.social and Lancaster: www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/research...

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David Walsh and @gerrymccartney1.bsky.social, co-authors of 'Social Murder?', discuss the impact #Austerity continues to have in the UK. Find the book: buff.ly/VOYYEyf Watch here: buff.ly/nL89Jgs

The UK is a low tax economy It has been for decades and has therefore invested less in public services like health The result is poorer services & less access, a higher debt burden & an unhappy population Choice is poor services low tax or better services higher tax www.ft.com/content/01f5...

At our demonstration today, I'm holding a placard stating "I support Palestine. Action must be taken." My aim is to highlight the absurdity of the government dictating what can and cannot be said by peace-seeking people

Great article by @patkane.bsky.social talking about how culture can help us understand and resist the reactionary challenges we face, and imagine better future. We have argued similarly in relation to a #wellbeingeconomy www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The world's most famous medical NGO concludes Israel is committing genocide. It joins a consensus of genocide scholars, including in Israel, and NGOs like Amnesty International. No politician or journalist can claim "I did not know at the time!" to evade future justice.

1. At the Tipping Points conference in Exeter yesterday, I spoke about the likelihood of food system collapse: a massive existential threat few people's radar. If you want a handle on the issue, here's the submission I made to a parliamentary committee. + 🧵 www.monbiot.com/2023/03/09/t...

David Walsh and @gerrymccartney1.bsky.social‬, co-authors of 'Social Murder?' discuss trends in society #Health and #Mortality rates and the grave effects caused by #Austerity policies and the slashing of public services. buff.ly/atSYDaH

David Walsh and @gerrymccartney1.bsky.social, co-authors of 'Social Murder?', discuss the impact #Austerity continues to have in the UK. Find the book: buff.ly/VOYYEyf Watch here: buff.ly/nL89Jgs

The minimum income guarantee is a way forward for this and more. The coming AI “revolution” will see many roles just disappear, the same as happened in the Industrial Revolution. Back then, there was widespread destitution, it took the state decades to catch up. The MIG is one way to counter that.

Just published online first: super useful new paper from @gerrymccartney1.bsky.social and Jennie Popay on limits to 'place-based approaches' for addressing health inequalities: journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jc...

I believe that I'm in love... with Francesca Albanese! 💜💜💜 Someone has created a placekeeping account - @franceskalbs.bsky.social - for her and her team. They haven't [yet] taken it over, but it's already got 9•8K followers, waiting and eager for her/them to move in. Let's give them a warm welcome!

Alistair Bunkall "For the third day in a row dozens of Palestinians were shot dead as they went to get food" Israels aid distribution isn't about helping Palestinians survive. Its about keeping them in a permanent state of starvation, controlling them, moving them & killing them

📣 New Special Issue out now: Anarchy & Degrowth! The Degrowth Journal is delighted to publish the first two articles of the Anarchy & Degrowth Special Issue, guest edited by Alexander A. Dunlap and Josephine Becker. 👉 Read the first two articles here: www.degrowthjournal.org/volumes/2025...

A powerful editorial journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

How?

"The number of billionaires in the UK has risen from 15 in 1990 to 165 in 2024... The top 50 richest families now hold more wealth than the poorest half of the population, comprising over 34 million people." equalitytrust.org.uk/evidence-bas...

The impact of austerity policies on UK health (inequalities) is brilliantly laid out in the new book by David Walsh and @gerrymccartney1.bsky.social, showing how all-encompassing the impact of austerity was. As relevant as ever today and I highly highly recommend it.

www.disabilitynewsservice.com/cuts-to-disa... @gerrymccartney1.bsky.social

Sarah Neville in the FT on lunch with Amanda Pritchard: "The NHS contributes between 10 and 20 per cent to people’s health, she says — a figure I find startlingly low" This widely quoted figure is startlingly low because it's probably wrong.🧵 www.ft.com/content/5cf4...

The government claims it is trying to fix a “broken benefits system,” but it is the hostile and discriminatory culture and systems that need to be fixed. The UK government’s disability benefit cuts are cruel and unfair, writes Fazilet Hadi @disrightsuk.bsky.social www.bmj.com/content/389/...

BREAKING: At least 27 Palestinian killed by Israeli attacks across Gaza today, medical sources in the enclave tell Al Jazeera aje.io/l2d9x6

"Hundreds of thousands of people are predicted to be pushed into poverty as a consequence of this reduction." In our latest podcast, The BMJ hears about the impact of the UK government's benefits cuts 🎧 on Spotify open.spotify.com/episode/4U7T... 🎧 on Apple podcasts.apple.com/no/podcast/r...

To read Professor @gerrymccartney1.bsky.social & Dr David Walsh from @uofgshw.bsky.social book “Social Murder? Austerity and Life Expectancy in the UK" - policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/social-murder

The evidence of the altered society we face now because of austerity = food banks, child poverty, mortality trends, mental health trends, and birth outcomes, including premature births, and maternal stress. Professor @gerrymccartney1.bsky.social & Dr David Walsh from @uofgshw.bsky.social

"We argue that this has been a dereliction of public health duty on the part of many." > Social Murder?: Austerity and Life Expectancy in the UK < Professor @gerrymccartney1.bsky.social & Dr David Walsh from @uofgshw.bsky.social

We must see: - reversal of social security cuts & creation of robust safety net - investment in public/social services - evidence based measures to narrow societal & health inequalities @gerrymccartney1.bsky.social & Dr David Walsh from @uofgshw.bsky.social talk at today's ALLIANCE event

To read Professor @gerrymccartney1.bsky.social & Dr David Walsh from @uofgshw.bsky.social blog on the recent social security changes published in the @bmj.com visit - www.bmj.com/content/388/...

The FPH is deeply concerned about the announced £4.8 billion cut to disability and health-related benefits. This cut comes at a time of rising poverty and directly undermines the government’s aim of tackling health inequalities and child poverty. www.fph.org.uk/news/fph-res...

FINAL CHANCE TO SIGN UP! Join Professor @gerrymccartney1.bsky.social & Dr David Walsh from @uofgshw.bsky.social tomorrow to hear them discuss their book “Social Murder? Austerity and Life Expectancy in the UK" ahead of our annual conference. Register www.alliance-scotland.org.uk/blog/events/...

If you haven't seen it already, I highly recommend this book: policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/social-murder and this BMJ piece: www.bmj.com/content/388/... by @gerrymccartney1.bsky.social as sources of accurate evidence about the impacts of benefit cuts on ill-health and avoidable deaths.

You may have seen @gerrymccartney1.bsky.social quoted in the media talking about the implications of the Chancellor's Spring Statement. He's part of a group of experts who have warned that welfare cuts could cause more deaths in @bmj.com @uofgsocsci.bsky.social www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin...

Spread the word! Exciting new fully funded PhD opportunity to research disabled people's lived experiences of benefit reform and the costs of disability. Deadline: 10 April @uofglasgow.bsky.social @uofgussp.bsky.social @uofgsps.bsky.social @sgsss.bsky.social @clemmiehilloconnor.bsky.social

My Women and Welfare Conditionality book shows how hard it already was for disabled women to manage work and welfare before the new cuts. Research shows that poverty worsens health.

Following the announcement of the #SpringStatement by Chancellor of the Exchequer, our Academic Co-Directors @profkepickett.bsky.social @profbambra.bsky.social @lukemunford.bsky.social & Prof David Taylor-Robinson have issued a joint statement in response www.healthequitynorth.co.uk/health-equit...

UK Welfare Cuts Will Push 250,000 People, including 50,000 Children, Into Poverty. As already 16m live in poverty. Tragic. The statement does nothing to redistribute wealth.

Warning from leading public health experts on the likely consequence of cuts to social security in the Chancellor’s #SpringStatement @gerrymccartney1.bsky.social @profkatsmith.bsky.social @lucindahiam.bsky.social @martinmckee.bsky.social @dannydorling.bsky.social @profbambra.bsky.social

Ahead of today's Spring Statement, we are calling on the Chancellor to put justice and compassion at the heart of her budget choices. We deserve an economy that takes care of us and that uses our collective wealth to look after everyone.

Our @bmj.com editorial ahead of the #SpringStatement ❌ There’s no evidence that cutting social security boosts economic activity—it’s neither "moral" nor effective. ✅ Gains come from investing in health. 💡 Solving the austerity-fuelled health crisis needs political will & strong public services.

Led by @gerrymccartney1.bsky.social with @profkatsmith.bsky.social and David Walsh, and contributions from David Taylor-Robinson, @profbambra.bsky.social @dannydorling.bsky.social @benjaminbarr.bsky.social @martinmckee.bsky.social @thegcph.bsky.social @oxfordgeography.bsky.social

Austerity kills. “For society’s sake, we need to reverse these cuts, not add more. We need to use the power within our communities – our collective voice – to demand that austerity policies are reversed.” @gerrymccartney1.bsky.social @deependgp.bsky.social www.chex.org.uk/latest/artic...

You can hear me discussing the new Project Willlow report on the future of Grangemouth after the refinery closure on the BBC Scotland channel at 7pm. Workers and unions, facing job losses, are sceptical of promises which depend on billions of pounds in private investment.