Summing up the UK govt's budget: Inequalities, profiteering, regressive taxation and neutering of public investment do not provide firm foundations for the economy. We need a Budget for the masses, not just for the super-rich, bond markets and corporations.. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JULf...

So tell me again how Nigel Farage, who just took the largest ever political donation, from a Tory mega-donor, and another donation from the Viscountess wife of the non-dom owner of the Daily Mail, is planning to "take on the establishment"

Is runaway welfare spending to blame for the Chancellor's fiscal challenges? Hear why any claims that the Chancellor could avoid raising in the Budget could by cutting welfare should be scrutinised⤵️

No way?!?! Well, I would have never guessed looking at the state of politics, the media, rivers, healthcare, education, poverty, climate etc www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

This 74-year-old man possesses more courage, integrity, humanity, and patriotism than anyone who supports Trump. 2 pro-MAGA showed up to the Broadview ICE detention facility A 74 year old Chicago resident named John Platt who has been protesting here for the past 2 months was not having it.

@norfolkfran.bsky.social @hecticteacher.bsky.social @thesociologyguy.bsky.social @browneken.bsky.social Revised longish essay on Labelling theory and education earlhamsociologypages.uk/Labelling-Th...

Trump’s influence looms large at the Cop30 climate talks in Brazil.

Trump's White House & fawning hacks here don't really care about the 0.001% that the BBC gets wrong. They care about all the stuff it gets right.

"There is simply no sign of a fiscal catastrophe from the 'Boriswave'. Recent migrants are very likely to be employed, paying tax and seem to be contributing to British society..it will help, rather than hurt, Britain’s fiscal position." Analysis by @lgilbert.co ukandeu.ac.uk/lower-migrat...

@norfolkfran.bsky.social @hecticteacher.bsky.social @browneken.bsky.social @thesociologyguy.bsky.social Very detailed information on gender and A Level Sciences [esp. Physics] choice ffteducationdatalab.org.uk/2025/10/has-...

"The overwhelming majority of asylum seekers want to share in our standards and escape from persecution or civil war. To describe them as thieves or rapists is not just dishonest but encourages the worst sort of prejudice in our communities," writes Michael Heseltine. https://bit.ly/4mUIeM

@norfolkfran.bsky.social @hecticteacher.bsky.social @thesociologyguy.bsky.social @browneken.bsky.social Some updated teaching notes on Conservative Education Policies 2015-2024 earlhamsociologypages.uk/education-po...

My analysis here not only explains why the CPS numbers are wrong - but estimates that if they'd got their own arithmetic right, they would have concluded that migrants are a large long-term fiscal *benefit*. (3/3) docs.google.com/document/d/e...

I'll have more to say on Reform's proposals to scrap ILR at some point but for now I'll just note this - anyone telling you this is a popular idea doesn't know the polling. Overwhelming majority of public back giving people who work and pay taxes most or all rights after 5 years or less

Donald Trump and the Deep State spartacus-educational.com/spartacus-bl... @edpodesta.bsky.social @apf102.bsky.social @gemmamh.bsky.social‬ @terryhaydn.bsky.social @arthurjchapman.bsky.social @counsellc.bsky.social @renskejanssen.bsky.social @kennyfrederick.bsky.social @gavinholden.bsky.social

Can Keir survive? Inside the plot to bring down the prime minister

Via the following link you will find further links to mass media coverage of the resignation of Angela Rayner and the subsequent Cabinet reshuffle. There are also links to information on most of the Cabinet resignations of the past 5-10 years. earlhamsociologypages.uk/imrandccr/

NEW POST: An early look at pupils who did not achieve the basics last year Based on data from 1,500 secondary schools, we take an early look at the pupils who did not achieve a standard pass in English and maths GCSE. vist.ly/45fpc

1/ In my Gove thread I showed how reform managed inequality rather than solved it. Here’s why “social mobility” itself is the bigger fiction. Another thread.

Never mind the flag bans, where are the policies? Assessing 100 days of Reform-led councils

UK govt handed £895bn of QE to banks. It bought bonds/gilts, now selling them at a loss. It also pays interest on banks' central reserves. Costs the public purse £22bn a year and is avoidable. Profits at big four banks doubled since the pandemic. Windfall tax could raise £8bn. Tax the banks.

61% of local govt money is spent on social care. Social care privatized since the 1980s, mainly controlled by corporations and private equity, profit margins of up to 40%, leaves little for other services. Poorest areas hardest hit. Fund it from general taxation. www.local.gov.uk/about/campai...

This is just getting ridiculous. Nothing that has happened (or is reported below the headline to have happened) this weekend remotely justifies talk of an explosion or mass protests. The media are confecting a crisis, and, in some sections of it, hoping to provoke one. 1/3

alright what's the dumbest thing we can get 500 people to go outside and protest about in the next few weeks, think there's a point we have to make here I'm thinking "bring forward the full release of Hades 2" but I'm open to ideas

Social mobility in Britain is low 👎 The majority of the public feel that this country is unfair and unequal. And our research shows that chances of success are heavily shaped by socio-economic background. But lots can be done to change this ⬇️

"Turning the issue of “broken Britain” into one of immigration deflects from the real problems facing the working class and the poor, obscures the real causes, and lets off the hook those who are responsible for breaking Britain." @kenanmalik.bsky.social observer.co.uk/news/opinion...

Calls for a "huge nationwide wave" of protests in last 48 hours saw about 300 people attend one locally-organised protest in Nuneaton (serious charges in local case) + 19 protests range from 6 peoole (Wolverhampton) with about four more reaching 100-200 people (Altrincham,Canary Wharf) Total < 2000

I’d love to see @rosatkins.bsky.social explore this topic for BBC viewers/listeners/readers.

“While they are united in emotion, potential Reform UK voters are fractured both in terms of their demographics and on the key issues that impact their families and the country.” Important study and findings by @bestforbritain.org 👇 www.bestforbritain.org/decoding-pop...

WILL THE DAM BURST? Graham Scambler Free at: www.grahamscambler.com/wp-content/u...

It’s more than two months now since the government was defeated in the Court of Appeal in its attempt to curb our right to protest. It should now be reviewing all arrests made under these unlawful powers @libertyhq.bsky.social youtu.be/vbQxagbctoc?...

I have tried here to make more widely accessible my recent theoretical writings on the state of British society in the 21st century. www.grahamscambler.com/wp-content/u...

@norfolkfran.bsky.social @hecticteacher.bsky.social @thesociologyguy.bsky.social @browneken.bsky.social Latest [July 31st 2025] edition of these data explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statist...

Perceptions of social impacts of immigration: 2022 & 2012 compared - Attitudes warmed: NHS flipped to positive: (partly pandemic effect of salience of workforce > patient pressure). - Housing is a genuine pressure. - Crime more a public perception, which politics/media investing in stoking

The State of Us: the Belong + British Future state of the nation report on cohesion and community www.britishfuture.org/state-of-us-...

@norfolkfran.bsky.social @hecticteacher.bsky.social @thesociologyguy.bsky.social @browneken.bsky.social Quite a lot of useful information and links in this item on boys and education researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CD...

Fourcast podcast in full bsky.app/profile/sund...

Free speech update. Local schoolchildren made a banner saying "Epping welcomes all except racists". The Homeland Party [their Norfolk organiser] says his members have taken and burnt it, sharing the image of burning the anti-racist message on social media, to emphasise their commitment to racism.

Skegness, one of your absolute finest people right here. Buy her a drink whenever you see her.

The richest 1% emit 100x the greenhouse gas emissions of those in the world’s bottom 50%, notes @profkepickett.bsky.social. “Inequalities of income, wealth and political power sit at the heart of the environmental crisis” @equalitytrust.bsky.social #LSEInequalitiesBlog 🔗

There are highly polarised views of people crossing the Channel to claim asylum. A fifth of people are very sympathetic to those doing so, but a fifth of people have no sympathy at all for them. Half the public are in between, so that there is a split overall.