🚨NEW PAPER🚨 We all know the 2022 energy price shock fueled the cost of living crisis. It also caused a profit bonanza for the very rich. We show the US reaped the largest profits ($377bn) of any country. 50% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

@martamiori.bsky.social and I have been writing, since 2024, about why Labour's 'Reform' challenge and emphasis was based on a misunderstanding of Labour's vote. Here for anyone interested: politicscentre.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

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This is *super* fun. I tapped out at the end of 1200, despite my very trad English degree (complete with Middle English and Anglo- Saxon). Have a go!

Yeah, hi, I’m a person with “mobility challenges” (excuse me while I hurl). What we want, by and large, are not expensive, heavy devices that will “help us walk again”, but ramps. I know, it’s not sexy, as technology invented before Christ, but it is overlooked in favor of…this. Repeatedly.

The endless column inches, YouTube videos, podcasts and more given over to the largely non-existent rightwards shift of young men is exhausting. A small fraction are getting radicalised by the online right. But most young men vote left and liberal! Even more so than millennials did at their age!

CW suicide @goodlawproject.bsky.social sharing data from FOIs on trans children and young people in the National Child Mortality Database. It shouldn't take FOI campaigns to highlight this - extremely distressing- data. It should always have been public, and *taken into account* by policymakers 1/2

Want to support independent LGBTQ+ media? Donate to the brilliant @wearequeeraf.com today! 👇👇

BIG part of the picture is the huge resistance in many schools to actually teaching in a way that works for autistic students www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Coates is always worth reading. apple.news/AEP72W5oLQW6...

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The New World asked me to speak to some British trans women about what life has been like for them over the past few years - here's what they had to say, in their own words: www.thenewworld.co.uk/marie-le-con...

always a lot of panic about right wing young men, the second most progressive demographic in britain

It is simply a lie to claim that the Conservative government (or any other UK government in recent history) oversaw 'an open borders experiment". No excuse for the PM or Reed repeating this lie or for media not describing it as such.

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I hate how these articles get framed. People go to A& E b/c they cant get a GP appointment. I was *sent* twice by 111 because my GP wouldn't see me for months. Im probably recorded in these figures. Cough and breathlessness. It was cancer (and they missed it) www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Why is Wes Streeting picking over the number of autism and ADHD diagnoses when he should be focusing on why our systems of work, education and care are still so closed off to the people who get them? Well said ⁦‪@johnharris‬⁩1969.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

falkner argues the bathroom ban will be self-enforcing just like *checks notes* . . . traffic laws

As with government "reviews' into migrants rights, disability support, trans and non-binary individuals etc there is usually a preferred outcome which the government wants to achieve. That is helped by media outlets pushing somewhat misleading reports supporting the preferred outcome. 1/

NEW: Labour inherited public services in crisis. Performance had fallen, investment had been cut + spending plans were undeliverable. It's made some progress, providing stability and positive long-term plans. But it has been undermined by poor prep in opposition and lack of co-ordination in govt 🧵

Given it’s taking 7, 8 up to 23 years to make some determinations this actually had me laughing out loud in the absolute certainty this this is undeliverable on every level. It’s a broken policy on inception. The bureaucracy alone is unworkable.

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To explain briefly: at the moment people successful in their asylum claims get permission to stay in the UK for 5 years, then have to apply for permanent residency. At that point a review of their status is done, but it’s rare not to succeed at that point unless they‘ve committed an offence 1/

This is as bad as anything proposed by Reform. Leaving refugees in permanent limbo and unable to build a new life in the UK would be a complete abdication of our humanitarian responsibilities www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

“The elites are ecstatic about imagining a vast, uneducated, and unproductive population forced to pay companies like OpenAI to access the written word and to approximate thought.” Must read piece by Noah McCormack with too many quotaboe lines to select one! thebaffler.com/salvos/we-us...

I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!

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MPs are rightly concerned about the economic impact of the EHRC's Code of Practice. Businesses up and down the country have made clear that it's unworkable. It's time for the Minister to send it back 🚮 www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

The Westminster chatterati’s perception of Birmingham is so utterly deranged by this point I’m actually sitting here laughing The way people are talking about it you’d think it was some dystopia from the Hunger Games or something Go outside, touch grass, come to Birmingham - you’ll be fine 😂

For generations people have come here and made *massive contributions to our shared life, some speaking English fluently, some with only a few phrases. I hate that our politics is this debased. www.gov.uk/government/n...

Read my two letters to the #UK: 1. Protests: I call for a review of the legal framework and the reconsideration of provisions in the Crime & Policing Bill that could restrict freedom of assembly. 2. Trans people: I warn against exclusion&zero-sum approaches 👇#HumanRights www.coe.int/en/web/commi...

Analysis in @thetimes.com by @leaskyd.bsky.social & Anna Dowell of the sharp decline in British identity uncovered by the Scottish Social Attitudes survey. With comment from Sir John Curtice on the polarising of Scottish politics and from myself on the decoupling of Scottish and British identities:

Which party underperformed the most in the 2025 local elections? Arguably Reform UK. A 🧵 on what the locals tell us about a key and neglected dimension in analysis of the current political situation.

"Black people are tired. Not metaphorically tired—actually tired. The kind of tired that turns every group chat into a mix of gallows humor and emotional triage." I write about white ignorance and how exhausting it is to hear white ppl insist "this isn't who we are, when it's ALWAYS who we've been.

Must watch for anyone who cares to know about the state of trans+ healthcare in the UK👇

So touched to be nominated for a Trans in the City allyship award. Allyship and solidarity has never been more needed. If you'd like to stand up for the trans community in the UK, go to @transsolidarity.bsky.social 🫶

Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet. After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵

Support for staying in the ECHR has been rising (probably a Farage effect of solidifying the majority who oppose him, maybe Trump osmosis effect). Media and political opinion on the right believes there is a strong public desire to quit. Badenoch has now committed the Conservatives to quitting.

Must read on rising tide of racism in schools. Both of my children are Black and have experienced racism of a type I saw all around me as a child in the 1980s. Schools/teachers are not keeping up.

The idea that "the median voter will feel attacked" by challenging Reform over racism is certainly not shown by the data in this piece. It shows they may be indifferent. (It may mean a different important swing voter, who isn't the median voter)

Lucy Powell has warned that Labour should not wave through a devastating trans bathroom ban 👇 Ripping up trans rights would be a disaster for Labour, for business, for women, and for the wider LGBT+ community. It's wrong. Labour needs to stop aping Trump and Farage, and protect our human rights.

We are at Labour conference, telling members about the impact of the proposed bathroom ban. It would devastate trans people’s lives, create unworkable business challenges, and alienate voters. This would be Labour’s legacy on LGBT+ rights for a generation. But it’s not too late for them to stop it.

Can't stop thinking about Starmer's pivot from calling Reform's ILR policy 'immoral' and 'racist' to describing Reform supporters as not racist, but rather 'frustrated'. Surely at least some people are attracted to 'immoral' and 'racist' policies because they *like* them? 🧵 tinyurl.com/57cb27cv

Here’s a free version. It’s well worth reading. Klein has an outsized opinion of himself if he thinks that he needed to write nonsense whitewashing Kirk’s legacy in order to sit in grief with people who mourned his loss. It’s absurd. Coates makes Klein look feckless and uninformed.

Nathan Gill, Reform's leader in Wales at the last Welsh parliament election, has pled guilty to 8 bribery charges, taking Russian cash while he was one of Nigel Farage’s MEPs to speak in favour of Putin's Russia in that parliament www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

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I've been sitting with this piece of @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social for two days, reading it, re-reading it. You should too. #EzraKlein is the avatar of a new kind of liberal indulgence for the worst of the far-right, embracing bad-faith as a practice. www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

Excellent piece by @notrightruth.bsky.social about trans community as the antidote to trans despair. ruthpearce.net/2025/09/25/r...

"Britcard"