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It took eight years of determined fighting by her mum but today a coroner rules that benefit cuts error led to Jodey Whiting’s death bit.ly/3HB6x2t she was deemed fit to work by @DWPgovuk having missed an assessment because she was in hospital with pneumonia.

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Jodey Whiting - a 42 year old disabled mum - died in 2017, leaving a note saying she had no money for food. Now, a new inquest has ruled Jodey killed herself after her benefits were “mistakenly stopped by the DWP.” Thoughts to Jodey’s mum who fought for justice. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

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It isn't possible to design a school system where everyone leaves with the skills needed for the workplace because they're all going to do different jobs. Workplace training needs to be done by employers.

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“Repeal the use of ‘parental alienation’ in Family Courts as well as stop using unregulated experts.” -UNSRVAWG, Reem Alsalem The advanced report of the UNSRVAWG country visit to the UK and Northern Ireland is out. I am very happy to have contributed to this.

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Superb article here on devolution in the UK Supreme Court, calling for an interpretive approach which recognises the accommodation of national pluralism as devolution’s central purpose: academic.oup.com/ojls/advance...

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📢 Interested in the working lives of judges & the difficulties with the court reform programme in England, including access to justice issues for litigants in person? Come along to our free public talk by Prof Penny Darbyshire on 4 June @UlsterUni at 4:30pm: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/judges-lit...

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The majority of parents in poverty who remain out-of-work face significant barriers to work. This includes having a child under 5, having a disabled adult or child in the family or having three or more children.

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We live in a world with newspapers struggling for a variety of reasons - so here’s a 300 year old story of survival. Just forgive the fact that after the storming of the Bastille in 1789, the paper suggested there wasn’t much news from Paris:

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Without ambitious policy change, child poverty is projected to increase dramatically over the next decade. In fact, should the Government continue with existing policy, our projections suggest child poverty will hit 33 per cent in 2029-30, a level not seen since 1998-99.

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shoutout to one of my criminal law students for attempting to use the "defence of inanity" which I think should definitely be a general defence.

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Recent blog post… blog.apaonline.org/2024/05/16/u...

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Today is National Biscuit Day, and it’s about time that I populated this account with biscuit (cookie) sets from the past few years. Here are some of my favourites. 🧵 First up, a set inspired by the delicious designs of William Morris and John Henry Dearle.

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Seeing as Emil Bove personally fired me from DOJ in retaliation for prosecuting January 6 rioters, I don’t think he should be confirmed to a lifetime seat as a federal judge. But that’s just me.

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Great summary of the case for Total Place. As the article says, there's a wide coaltion of organisations who support this. This was @instituteforgovernment.org.uk's contribution from earlier this month: www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/publication/...

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Some process pics for my @nytimes.com for kids cover: 1. Sketchbook doodles 2. Various rough ideas 3. Pencil drawing 4. Ink drawing

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Call out for writers with lived experience of homelessness or poverty to submit monologues for a new anthology to highlight the complexity of the experiences of homelessness and poverty – struggles, resilience, hope, humour. Please share :) mtos.cardboardcitizens.org.uk/anthology/

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Now is the time to make child poverty strategy as ambitious as possible. All children should have a chance at childhood, and the opportunity to build the future they want. Send a message to the Chancellor today demanding investment in young people: everychild.childrenssociety.postbug.app

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"If you ask workers right now 'what is the most important thing when you look fora job?'... they talk about flexibility, work life balance as the very top items" @heejungchung.bsky.social spoke to @roysocmed.bsky.social last week about the challenges and opportunities of the changing workplace

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Labour government policies have led to losses of more than £1bn from the HE sector since it came to power in July, new analysis suggests. It comes as @politicshome.bsky.social understands there is concern in the sector over the direction of HE reforms www.politicshome.com/news/article...

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I need to keep reminding myself….

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On benefit cuts, Keir Starmer is “attempting to defend the indefensible”, writes @ruthpatrick0.bsky.social www.prospectmagazine...

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Melville

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This is on to something where it talks about people opposing removing the two child limit in “superficial polls” As @luketryl.bsky.social sets out here- there’s a difference between 3 second, 30 second & 3 minute reactions, and narratives really matter. bsky.app/profile/luke...

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Last few days to apply to this funded PhD studentship www.strath.ac.uk/studywithus/... focusing on health equity, which is part of @equalise.bsky.social & @centrehealthpolicy.bsky.social Closing date = Fri 30th May. Please get in touch if you're interested and have questions.

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NBC News confirms: The Trump admin aims to cut all remaining ties with Harvard and the White House intends to ask all federal agencies to seek ways to end its contracts with the school today. @msnbc.com

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#TakingThePIP

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Arrest, injuries and all the new details we know about Liverpool parade crash www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpo...

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How should legal education respond to AI? Together with 11 UCL Laws colleagues, this paper is our vision for the sector. It's rooted in academic integrity, fundamental competences, and concerns around impacts on learning to learn and intellectual risk taking. (🧵) discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10...

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Tomorrow (Wed. 5/28)! You can still register here to attend this great webinar (or to get the recording emailed to you after). www.irp.wisc.edu/resource/wor...

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🎉 Our UK Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ESCR) Network is growing every day! 🪶 If you are an organisation or individual committed to social justice, equality and human rights, then sign up here: justfair.org.uk/campaigns-2/...

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The High Income Child Benefit Charge https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-8631/

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Other work by the Ladybird artists. County Wicklow, Ireland Railway poster. Artist: Ronald Lampitt

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Bar Standards Board scraps controversial proposed duty on barristers to “act in a way that advances equality, diversity and inclusion”. Background and link to today's announcement: rozenberg.substack.com/p/regulator-...

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NEW Explaining a 31-month sentence for a tweet How a mixture of court process, law and sentencing policy led to the lengthy imprisonment of Lucy Connolly By me Substack: emptycity.substack.com/p/explaining... Personal blog: davidallengreen.com/2025/05/expl...

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Funny, every writer in the UK knows how it'd work. You'd ask @alcs.co.uk to organise it. Seeing as how it's EXACTLY WHAT THEY ALREADY DO.

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Lessons from the last Conservative government: Ministers who stay put get things done www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/comment/less...

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Valuable @courtwatchldn.bsky.social reporting highlighting that delays to trials mean people are being tried as adults, despite having been children when they committed the crime.

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feels ironic that all the focus is on "social media is destroying literacy and civic engagement" when we seem to be doing a great job at that in our institutions as well

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Speaking at our event last week, ‪ @JWatsonONeill from ‪@sensecharity spoke about the need for welfare reforms to protect disabled people who will never be able to work ⤵️

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My column today's FT: on some of the reasons why the two-child benefit cap is bad and should go:

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Police told to seize phones of women who miscarry a baby bit.ly/431vSv0 surely it is time for this misogynistic Victorian law to be scrapped. Their bodies, their choice.

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Good take down from @profserious.bsky.social of the fashionable idea that we should replace university research with institutes. We need different models for different disciplines, and the pipeline of talent needs universities open.substack.com/pub/profseri...

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'UK universities are an incredibly cheap place to fund research. The exact cost recovery varies but overall universities only secure about 60% of the cost of research (excluding unfunded scholarship) from grants. The shortfall is paid by fees from teaching international students' 1/2

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Interesting research. If there's one thing that GLPs should have taught it, it's that hormones are incredibly powerful in ways that it's hard for us (the occupiers of individual bodies with only one experience of them) to appreciate. www.newstatesman.com/politics/hea...

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Worth noting that literally every other leader is preferred to Nigel Farage as PM. This could become quite important if/when a general election approaches with polling suggesting Farage has a real shot at being PM

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The second Dreamer, 2017 by Kenyan-born artist Wangechi Mutu #womensart

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