gadwall.bsky.social

gadwall.bsky.social

@gadwall.bsky.social

Walks, Cycles. Enthusiast for Geology. Perpetually learning modern Greek.

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Jonathan Portes
@jdportes.bsky.social

"The Home Office has identified a new problem with migrant care workers. The people presented as a burden on Britain because they earn too little have become so indispensable that they must be prevented from finding a better or higher-paid job." ukandeu.ac.uk/unaffordable...

ukandeu.ac.ukUnaffordable? No, indispensable. The government tries to move the goalposts for care workers - UK in a changing EuropeJonathan Portes argues that the government has flipped from treating migrant care workers as a problem to presenting them as a necessity,...

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Robert Saunders
@robertsaunders.bsky.social

"Christian nationalism" in the UK is essentially a post-religious identity. Unlike the evangelical right in the US, it has no theological content, does not require belief in God & demands no moral or religious commitment. It reduces Christianity to a cultural "heritage" to be "defended" from Islam

Tim Bale@timbale.bsky.social

As my dad used to say, "Surprise, surprise!"

theguardian.comChristian nationalism in Britain driven by people who seldom go to church, says reportResearch challenges the notion that the growing visibility of crosses and other symbols reflects a revival of Christianity
gadwall.bsky.social
@gadwall.bsky.social

A calm and devastating critique

Alasdair Munro@apsmunro.bsky.social

My piece on the new White House Executive Order on childhood vaccines The document is based on an inappropriate premise, flies in the face of existing science, and would achieve the opposite of its own stated aims It is a catastrophic failure at vaccine policy

alasdairmunro.substack.comExecutive Vaccine Order: Home run or Own goal?Is the White House statement a welcome shake up or unnecessary blunder?

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Tim Bale
@timbale.bsky.social

Worth a read. "Reform’s success should be read as a signal, not a sentence. It tells us that growth concentrated in London, credentials-dependent, invisible to millions of working people, is not working. People have now found a vehicle for saying so at scale and they should be heard."

blogs.lse.ac.ukReform’s rise is a productivity warning, not a culture war victory | LSE British PoliticsReform’s wins at the local elections have attributed to identity and culture wars. But Grace Lordan argues that it’s economics that explains the results.

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