How many lives would be saved if Africa had other regions’ child mortality rates? One of the starkest expressions of global inequality is a child’s chance of survival.

A jackdaw’s nest removed from our chimney by local sweep. We knew they’d built a home but not a block of flats.

Rachel Reeves’s 2025 Budget pairs fiscal repair with measures to counter child poverty and the cost-of-living crisis. In our latest blog post, James Smith of @resfoundation.bsky.social asks: was the Budget progressive overall? #LSEInequalitiesBlog

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Where did I put that book?

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www.bmj.com/content/391/... NHS and population health.

www.bmj.com/content/391/... Expert generalists - GPs.

Keep smiling all.

iai.tv/articles/hap... Happiness as an understandable form of resistance to contemporary horrors. Give it a go?

A nation that demonises people fleeing war and terror and constantly paints them as lesser humans is a nation without a heart. That’s the path we’re on and we must not blindly walk it.

BREAKING: Venezuela has condemned US President Trump’s social media post declaring the country’s airspace "closed in its entirety" saying it "denounces... the colonialist threat that seeks to affect the sovereignty of its airspace." 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/o9swd9

Rule of thumb. If someone says: "Look, that's just the way things are" Chances are they are benefitting from an injustice they don't want to talk about.

Ahead of the release of the UK's Child Poverty Strategy, @kittyjstewart.bsky.social, Ruth Patrick & @aaronreeves.bsky.social @lsesociology.bsky.social @lseinequalities.bsky.social consider whether boosting parental employment is part of the solution to #ChildPoverty @lsepoliticsblog.bsky.social

Orange sky, red berries.

We will know more about the future viability of Your Party when the inaugural conference is over and the (very considerable) dust begins to settle. Socialist, Reformist or damp squib?

I see the ghostwritten celebrity books are out again for Christmas.

How about Israeli influence?

Inquiry report shows ‘horrific’ Covid death toll among disabled people was not inevitable, say DPOs www.disabilitynewsservice.com/inquiry-repo...

Follow thread. Troubled times in UK universities.

A lesson from Nye Bevan on the roots of fascism. "Representative institutions cannot stand by helpless spectators of mass unemployment, preventable poverty, and economic anarchy without losing prestige, and eventually their own life.” www.bmj.com/content/391/... @bmj.com

💻 Laptops are great, but not during class. 💻 Laptops are the standard in classrooms. This needs to change. New meta-analysis of 24 experiments shows that handwriting will lead to higher grades for students. So this 2017 NYTimes op-ed by @dynarski.bsky.social is even truer today.

[Out] 'Inheritance, wealth transfers, and the case for a capital accessions tax'. New paper by Eric Fabri, Postdoctoral Researcher at SciencePo ULB (Centre de théorie politique), for the Journal of Public Policy. resolve.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Our head of department Mette Berg has contributed to a new @uclgrandchallenges.bsky.social podcast on asylum housing in the UK. Check it out below!

💡 New booklet! Helping reduce #stigma for people who receive #opioid substitution treatment, and empower them in their interactions with pharmacy staff 💬 Read the blog by @vic-carlisle.bsky.social about how they co-produced the booklet 👉 arc-w.nihr.ac.uk/how-we-co-pr... @capcbristol.bsky.social

The large drop in immigration seen in today's ONS data will likely have huge consequences for social care. The sector has been entirely reliant on care workers from overseas to meet growing demand. Read our statement from Researcher @cglobont.bsky.social 👇

A local coffee shop started closing during the daytime because they couldn't make money off the people who come with a laptop, order 1 coffee, and sit for 3 hours. I say this kind of activity is foundational for our civilisation and if the coffee shops can't afford it the govt should subsidise it.

So we are already back to the levels of migration of the early 2010s and declining faster... let's hope all those new restrictions, based on previous higher numbers, don't make Britain massively unattractive to those migrants the government DOES wish to attract.

The gov can’t fix juries, but it can fix judges.

Cheering the two child limit ending isn’t patting Starmer’s Labour on the back or ignoring his record. It’s acknowledging 8 years of hard campaigning and ridding the country of a cruel, toxic policy. Half a million children won’t be hungry anymore. Celebrate today. Tomorrow, pick the next fight.

For public responses to the budget @channel4news.bsky.social goes to Bath, not Middlesbrough. Hmm.

With Ray Fitzpatrick and Mary Boulton back in the day. Ray sadly no longer with us.

Best understood, Labour's attack on juries, as a further lurch towards authoritarianism. Who, now, will stand in the way of a State that wants to imprison its opponents?

Judge substituted at the last minute in legal appeal against proscribing Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation. Looks very much like a gov stitch-up, but we await further details.

Who needs juries when we can absolutely trust white, male, privately educated judges?

Inevitably, there are already arguments that the Chancellor should cut welfare spending instead of raising taxes tomorrow. But is welfare spending really 'out of control'? Here's the facts: www.resolutionfoundation.org/comment/is-w...

The further education sector is on the frontline of preparing learners for a rapidly shifting labour market. Our Director of Education shares his thoughts on what the findings from The Skills Imperative 2035 by @thenfer.bsky.social mean for FE, in @fenews.bsky.social Read here: ow.ly/ktPp50Xxrz4