Across the UK, people are organising to hold Reform UK to account and push back against their hate. Get involved 👇 secure.hopenothate.org.uk/page/157246/...

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Are you the only person from a background like yours in your organisation? You might not be as alone as you think… www.linkedin.com/posts/duncan... #charities

If we want to solve the housing crisis without trashing nature, consider that our current housing stock would fit, twice over, in the space currently taken up by golf courses, which are a sustainability nightmare. #Lab25

“exploration of the gaps between the values & policy preferences of politicians & the public provides a clear & evidence-based framework for understanding the seismic political shifts we’ve been living through in recent years” (@jburnmurdoch.ft.com on Laurenz Guenther’s insights).

Want to push back against the increasingly emboldened racism in our streets, politics & media but don’t know how to do so effectively? To send a message to those who feel threatened that ‘you’re one of us, we’ve got your back’? @hopenothate.org.uk have your back: www.linkedin.com/posts/duncan...

How people at the sharp end of social & economic issues struggle to find jobs – or a hearing – in #charities dealing with those issues: Analysis & data just released.. lnkd.in/p/ekT7AJ67

“sections of the working class can be drawn to the far right not because they are hardcore racists but because most of the old political outlets for their discontent have eroded [&] inability of the left to speak to working-class grievances” (@kenanmalik.bsky.social)

“Staff from working class backgrounds continue to be underrepresented in the charity sector, & the real living wage helps to ensure no one has to turn down a job because they don’t have access to savings or financial help from family” #charities #dei

"companies with robust EDI strategies are 120% more likely to reach their financial goals.. When organisations fail to support neurodivergent staff, they... erode their own missions. Actions for neuroinclusion... boost performance & protect wellbeing for all". #Charities #DEI #Neuroinclusion

“Charity & think tank leaders have the power to advocate for a broad range of groups [but] Without action, the risk is that the voices of working-class people remain unrepresented in the rooms where their lives & futures are discussed” @carlcullinane.bsky.social / @suttontrust.bsky.social #charities

"There is a direct correlation... between hostility to immigration & a) levels of deprivation, & b) social capital... it’s not just about someone having a job. It’s about what type of job, what type of respect they get in their community” (@nicklowles.bsky.social via @zoesqwilliams.bsky.social)

'Overcoming objections to becoming a more demographically-representative & inclusive organisation: “We need to focus on our mission, not on this”'. www.linkedin.com/posts/duncan... #Charities #HR #DEI

"Creating sustainable social change: in today’s new world, what will it take from leaders across the private, public & civil society sectors?" With @mds49.bsky.social, @pollyneate.bsky.social, Aline Santos Farhat) London 01 Oct www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve... #charities

Why Americans flipped from opposing equal marriage to supporting it: Interesting stuff from @phb-123.bsky.social who points to a generational shift from ‘sexuality is a behaviour’ to ‘it is an identity’. (Left me wondering what caused that shift, tho) newbooksnetwork.com/peter-hart-b... #lgbtq

“I fear the impact of rolling back #EDI initiatives across some companies. In a battle for talent, can we afford to ignore those talented individuals who did not come through what might be considered traditional routes?” corporate-adviser.com/spp-urges-in... #DEI #SocialMobility

A majority - but only just a majority- of people in the UK still think our head of state should be a role restricted to nepo-babies. #RoyalFamily

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‘People from working class backgrounds no more likely to become doctors now than they were in the 1960s… children of doctors 100x more likely to become doctors themselves than children of people in “routine” working class roles’ www.personneltoday.com/hr/medical-p... #SocialMobility #DEI

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"numerous ‘national’ organisations have a staff team in which people from ‘the regions’ are badly underrepresented... misunderstanding the mood of the country, blindsided by things that are obvious to most people outside the capital" www.linkedin.com/posts/duncan... #Charities

Attention middle-class cafés: Please stop trying to justify the price you charge for a cuppa by using fancypants tea bags. The reason they’re not the bestselling brand isn’t just because they cost more. Yorkshire Tea is fine, ta. Who’s with me on this?

While progressives politely observe the Marquis of Queensberry Rules, the hard right bring a chainsaw. www.ft.com/content/2260...

“If you’re just being compassionate but you’re not calling out the systemic injustices, that stops being compassionate & could tip easily into complicitness” (Emma Revie, @trusselluk.bsky.social) Beware the allure of being a rescuer: an identity that requires others to be victims #Charities

For decades, UK governments have steadily reduced the % of taxes that come from wealth & increasing the % coming from work: incentivising speculation rather than productivity, & blocking social mobility. A rebalancing is overdue.

@upreach.bsky.social , who exist to address the issue that “a student from disadvantaged background who gains a 1st-class degree from a top university is less likely to secure an elite job than a more privileged student with a 2.2” are hiring! (BTW, it’s up-reach, not u-preach, no vicaring required)

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“NGO world is still filled with children of ambassadors, CEOs & government officials designing programmes for people living in poverty” Jennifer Grant on #Charities that prioritise middle-class comfort over effectiveness (with ideas from me on addressing it 👇) www.linkedin.com/posts/duncan...

“‘Radical’ property tax would result in more funding for public services being contributed by people most able to afford it”. “Warn”?! www.ft.com/content/d050...

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The proportion of taxes coming from wealth has declined over the last 4 decades. Taxes on work have taken up the burden. This has helped the already-wealthy get wealthier & suppressed opportunities for #SocialMobility for the rest of us. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/08...

Local transport improvements (e.g. more frequent buses) favoured by low-middle income households. Airport expansion advocates are overwhelmingly confined to the economic elites

“who are we to define what success should look like for someone else? […] Let’s put co-development at the heart of everything we do” #WideningParticipation #HigherEd #DEI #HR

In all 7 areas: (“overall sense of belonging…, peer relationships, experiences in teaching & learning, college events & activities… staff relationships…. clubs & societies, & financial”) students from ‘lower’ socioeconomic backgrounds faced the strongest barriers to belonging.

'All students (& staff) are under pressure to “cope”… as though everyone is starting from the same place, with the same resources... What is often interpreted as #resilience is, in many cases, a form of masking, Over time, this leads to chronic stress, anxiety & burnout".

"Why is #DEI now under attack? Perhaps because in both [the UK & US], there is a sizeable community who regularly face exclusion & barriers... who have felt systematically left out of these initiatives – those from working class backgrounds" [@beckymontacute.bsky.social]

“Most of those in the political world… unlike voters, are not at the sharp end” (@stephenkb.bsky.social) 💯 Those who make - or seek to influence - policy typically haven’t experienced (or have forgotten) how the sharp end feels, & are blindsided by things that are obvious to the average person.

Reminder that today is BTech results day & T-level results day. Not everyone does A-Levels.

SMF analysis of Level 3 #ResultsDay2025 Regional divides widen and gaps between students from the most & least deprived areas persist, amidst record results. 👇Education experts @danihpayne.bsky.social and @beckymontacute.bsky.social breakdown the data www.smf.co.uk/commentary_p...

New inheritance tax rules for landowners "largely protects family farms whilst limiting claims by the wealthiest (@centaxuk.bsky.social) [& tax regime still weighs more heavily on those whose income comes from work rather than wealth, supressing #SocialMobility] centax.org.uk/news-release... #IHT

"offering students a loan that only covers half their basic living costs, & then asking them to work a minimum 20hrs a week during term-time isn’t “opportunity”, it’s a scam...that allows lots of people to pat themselves on the participation back while plunging unsuspecting students into poverty".

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Why participants in ‘working-class only’ apprenticeship schemes - like the Civil Service has just introduced - will perform BETTER than their peers: www.linkedin.com/posts/duncan... #HR #DEI

I'll leave the precise definition of fascism to political scientists, but if it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck & steps like a goose... #Trump

'the way society tries to “normalise” anyone who doesn’t conform... "who really *does* fit within this regime, & at what cost?... What can we do with all the energy that you use to make things fit within a regime that is artificial — fully constructed”'? www.ft.com/content/6ede... #DEI

How “parental choice” rules in school admissions deny kids the sort of education that expands the choices available to them: www.linkedin.com/posts/curtis... (@oswald808.bsky.social) See also @tommadders.bsky.social on fighting to get what others take for granted: www.linkedin.com/posts/tommad...

#DEI practitioners “paired academic with moral arguments to… preach straight to the choir [&] paid little heed to fence-sitters... if they didn't get with the times, they'd be irrelevant… The extremist right explicitly courted these fence-sitters” (Lily Zheng) www.linkedin.com/posts/lilyzh... 1/2

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"Should your organisation, like the civil service, offer internships restricted to ‘lower’ socioeconomic backgrounds?" www.linkedin.com/posts/duncan... #Charities #HR #DEI

I just got an Email from the NHS Blood & Transplant service… cc @antonytiernan.bsky.social