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Resolution Foundation @resfoundation.bsky.social · 4h

None of the proposed two-child limit options are as efficient in lifting children out of poverty as fully scrapping the policy.

Fully abolishing the two-child limit should be the starting point of any successful Child Poverty Strategy.

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Table 1 shows the cost per child lifted out of poverty for fully scrapping the two-child limit
and each of the floated options. The only option that has a similar cost-effectiveness to full
abolition is exempting families who are in work, at £7,540 per child lifted out of poverty,
(compared to £7,480 for full abolition). The lower cost-effectiveness of the other options
should be considered alongside the issues outlined above that each option would introduce.

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Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 6h

Inter-cohort comparisons used for a highly policy relevant question.
Chronic health conditions and health-related economic inactivity in midlife: Evidence from the 1958 and 1970 British birth cohorts www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Chronic health conditions and health-related economic inactivity in midlife: Evidence from the 1958 and 1970 British birth cohorts

Background Health-related economic inactivity is a growing concern in the United Kingdom but little is known about how the relationship between health and work participation has changed across cohorts...

www.medrxiv.org

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Resolution Foundation @resfoundation.bsky.social · 7h

Our Chief Executive @ruthcurtice.bsky.social spoke to the Treasury Select Committee today about the role a wealth tax could play in addressing our key fiscal challenges as a country ⤵️

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Declassified UK @declassifieduk.org · 10h

The Starmer project has relied from the beginning on back room maneuvering, smears, stitch ups, and ruthless exploitation of the party’s disciplinary procedures.

The result is a soulless, empty husk of a political project, writes Richard Sanders👇
www.declassifieduk.org/how-keir-sta...

How Keir Starmer conned the British electorate

Book review: ‘The Fraud’ offers the most damning portrayal yet of the Starmer project.

www.declassifieduk.org

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Graham Scambler @grahamscambler.bsky.social · 11h

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Right to protest is under sustained attack in the west, report finds

Counter-terror laws being ‘weaponised’ against pro-Palestine groups in UK, US, France and Germany, says FIDH

www.theguardian.com

Graham Scambler @grahamscambler.bsky.social · 11h

Anyone else having difficulty accessing BlueSky?

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www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Tommy Robinson says Elon Musk is paying his legal costs as trial begins

Far-right activist is accused of refusing to comply with counter-terrorism police request at Channel tunnel

www.theguardian.com

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Graham Scambler @grahamscambler.bsky.social · 1d

Best wishes.

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 1d

"one fairly recent IHME paper generated 12 times more citation points than all of the papers ever published in Demography journal in it’s 6+ decades since 1964."

Ilya Kashnitsky @ikashnitsky.phd · 1d

I wrapped up my scattered comments on IHME into a blog post

🔗 ikashnitsky.phd/2025/ihme-bibl

tl;dr: avoid getting unwarranted co-authorship recognition and do apply some sort of contribution-weighted thinking when evaluating someone's publication record based on bare numbers

Beyond Fraud: How IHME Distorts Academic Metrics

Dr. Ilya Kashnitsky is a demographer @ Statistics Denmark.

ikashnitsky.phd

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International Journal of Population Data Science (IJPDS) @ijpds.bsky.social · 1d

The government has our data—but what data do they have and what do they use it for?

Data dictionaries explain what data the government has about its citizens. Find out how they “hold promise as agents of transparency and ethical data use.”

ijpds.org/news/13-10-2...

@pennsp2.bsky.social

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Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 1d

Nice article. But what it leaves out is the pervasiveness of gopherism --- willingness to do,s#/t work for the powerful -- as a path to job security.

Patrick Dunleavy @patrickdunleavy.bsky.social · 1d

Academic careers have become a professional sport blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

Academic careers have become a professional sport - Impact of Social Sciences

Academia like professional sports is increasingly a system defined by competition, precarity and quantification does this lead to a loss of meaning?

blogs.lse.ac.uk

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A new leftist alternative? We live in hope! www.yourparty.uk @yourpartyuk.bsky.social · 1d

#LabourTogether exposed - very little to do with #Labour, much to do with #capital & thus #neoliberalism. Now clearly in full control of both the #government & #LabourParty. This article, for me, provides a compelling case for members #TradeUnions #MPs #PLP etc to sign up to #YourParty.

The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 1d

The 1st installment of the Canary's exclusive serialisation of Paul Holden's book The Fraud looks at the rise of Labour Together, & we reveal that what the group publicly said about its creation wasn't strictly true.

You can read our serialisation every day at 9am.
www.thecanary.co/the-fraud/20...

The Fraud serialisation, part one: the rise of Labour Together

The first installment of the Canary's exclusive serialisation of Paul Holden's book The Fraud looks at the rise of Labour Together

www.thecanary.co

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Graham Scambler @grahamscambler.bsky.social · 1d

Because it’s my opinion. That’s what ‘imo’ means. It’s an opinion shared by many women.

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Graham Scambler @grahamscambler.bsky.social · 1d

It’s not compulsory.

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Graham Scambler @grahamscambler.bsky.social · 2d

I can’t understand why Strictly invited a drag queen who is then addressed as ‘she’. Imagine a contestant blacking up and being described as black. It’s insulting to women imo.

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George Davey Smith @mendelrandom.bsky.social · Sep 12

"Triangulation: moving from correlations to causation", Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine Distinguished Lecture 2025, Thursday, October 16th, 5pm, in person or online
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/school-of-...

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 2d

This Is Fascism

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Graham Scambler @grahamscambler.bsky.social · 2d

Autumn.

Graham Scambler @grahamscambler.bsky.social · 2d

An interesting if disconcerting hypothesis!

Eric Gordy @ericgordy.bsky.social · 2d

Olga Tokarczuk

"With age, many men come down with testosterone autism, the symptoms of which are a gradual decline in social intelligence and capacity for interpersonal communication, as well as a reduced ability to formulate thoughts. The person beset by this ailment becomes taciturn and appears to be lost in contemplation. He develops an interest in various tools and machinery, and he's drawn to the Second World War and the biographies of famous people, mainly politicians and villains."

Graham Scambler @grahamscambler.bsky.social · 2d

Literature will continue to be available at Oxbridge of course, to educate our elites.

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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 2d

Making a mockery of the law: judicial treatment of non-volent direct action
Judicial refusal to allow people to say why they are protesting is both illegal and immoral

westenglandbylines.co.uk/politics/hum...

Making a mockery of the law: judicial treatment of non-volent direct action

Judicial refusal to allow people to say why they are protesting is both illegal and immoral

westenglandbylines.co.uk

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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 3d

"The colonized is indebted to the colonizer for being colonized."

David Graeber speaks about the brutality of Debt in history.

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Patrick Dunleavy @patrickdunleavy.bsky.social · 3d

Many thanks from all our authors to the 12,000 readers who have downloaded our book “Australia’s Evolving Democracy” or any chapter this year so far. We are hugely grateful! It’s open access, always. press.lse.ac.uk/books/e/10.3...

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 3d

Limited liability is one of our weird silences. It's a massive free gift society makes to plutocrats, seldom remarked upon, let alone contested.
Shareholders should have to buy limited liability, like any other insurance. The insurers would then be liable. 🧵
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

Will UK taxpayers get their £122m back from PPE Medpro?

The high court told the company linked to Michelle Mone to pay up over the supply of defective gowns, but there appears no clear route to reclaim the funds

www.theguardian.com

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