Dave Hawkey

And he’d do the Sil laugh for us on request!

Nabil Shaban obituary Actor and founder of Graeae, a theatre company and platform for disabled and neurodivergent performers

When I was a kid, Nabil used to tell me and my sibs the wildest sci fi stories that he improvised with us as main characters. Absolutely the best.

One of the coolest most inspiring people I’ve had the good fortune to meet. Rest in peace. www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/o...

After months of planning and plotting, safe to say our conference yesterday was a success. A big thank you to everyone present. Some highlights⤵️
@johnswinney.bsky.social
@anassarwar.bsky.social
@stephenboydippr.bsky.social
@davehawkey.bsky.social
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Better for everyone: a new vision for child maintenance - One Parent Families Scotland Ambitious proposals for systemic reform of the Child Maintenance Service to improve financial security for children in single parent families.

🚸Too many children are missing out on the child maintenance support they deserve.
It’s time for change!
We
@ipprscotland.bsky.social
alongside @opfs.org.uk
,
@fifegingerbread.bsky.social

are calling for a fairer, safer system.
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#TransformingChildMaintenance

Good discussion on tackling child poverty today on an SNP conf panel with @sa4dunfermline.bsky.social, Mary Glasgow and the parent from Changing Realities (sorry I misplaced your name!). Thanks @cpagscotland.bsky.social for organising and John Dickie for chairing.

📢 We are in Aberdeen this weekend at the SNP conference, hosting three fringe events. A conference pass is required to attend the events. Hope to see you there. Details below ⤵️

IPPR Scotland responds to the Scottish government’s new climate targets | IPPR IPPR Scotland welcomes the new climate targets agreed by the Scottish government today.  Dave Hawkey, Senior Research Fellow, IPPR Scotland said: “In the w

"The forthcoming climate plan must be built on sound financial and democratic pillars. That means a clear role for taxes, so we share transition costs fairly rather than leaving individuals to do it alone." - @davehawkey.bsky.social responds to today's climate targets www.ippr.org/media-office...

Mansions, income or inheritance? Reeves's options for a wealth tax Labour has a new fiscal blackhole and the clamour for the Chancellor to fill it by hitting Britain's most prosperous residents is growing

Equalising capital gains with income tax is fair, sensible, & could raise £14bn a year.

It was famously 'pro-growth' Tory chancellor Nigel Lawson who equalised CGT with IT in the first place - and our analysis shows millionaires wouldn’t flee.

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🎯The broad settlement for Scotland in today's Spending Review is welcome but not enough to meet its fiscal challenges.

👀All eyes should now be on the upcoming industrial strategy.

@stephenboydippr.bsky.social reacts ⤵️

Full statement on our website: www.ippr.org/media-office...

The Climate Change Plan, due later this year, will be a litmus test as to whether the parties are willing to step up to solving these defining issues of our generation.

What’s the programme to upgrade the heating of our homes so we stay warm as the gas grid is shut down? What does our food system look like as we give over more of our land to trees and less to sheep and cows? How will we make sure net zero narrows inequalities and doesn’t drive us further apart?

We need concrete plans for how we are going to get to net zero safely and fairly: climate missions that set clear objectives and coordinate delivery.

Political leaders in Scotland must be bold on climate and tax | IPPR In every Scottish constituency (and all but two constituencies in England and Wales), more voters think government policy on net zero should be going fur

Voters have seen this failure and want more ambitious action. www.ippr.org/articles/pol...

The parliament’s recognition of a climate emergency in 2019 was not matched by a step change in policy. Instead, timid piecemeal initiatives crowded out more ambitious ideas.

Scottish Greenhouse Gas Statistics 2023 An Official Statistics Publication for Scotland.

Today’s emission figures are disappointing but hardly surprising. Stalled progress on climate is rooted in inadequate political leadership. www.gov.scot/news/scottis...

🌡️Stalled progress on reducing greenhouse gas emissions raises urgent questions about how Scotland meets its targets for net zero.

🎯Action is needed now, and the upcoming Climate Change Plan will be the litmus test for meeting the moment.

🗳️Voters in Hamilton have shown they want to a fairer, greener future, but can Scottish politicians afford to be complacent? Certainly not.

✅2026 cannot be a contest mired in negativity but a battle for the high ground.

@stephenboydippr.bsky.social

The number of people putting immigration as one of their top three concerns has increased, but it sits in the middle of the pack with many others and represents a minority (16%) of people. Half of people taking the survey are worried about health and the NHS.

Even "immigration ranked as *a* top concern" would have been over egging it a bit. Health/NHS and cost of living far and away more significant

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This is a wildly misleading headline on @hannahmargbrown.bsky.social story today

"Immigration ranked as top concern for Scots, new report reveals"

www.heraldscotland.com/news/2519162...

⚠️The CCC published expert advice on how the Scottish government can tackle the climate crisis.

📺 @davehawkey.bsky.social spoke to @laurapiper.bsky.social of STV to elucidate further: "What we need now is a policy package that can step up to deliver [the simple things recommended by the CCC]."

⚠️It is time to focus on adopting “climate missions”: coherent plans to coordinate change that everyone eventually will be a part of.

We respond to the Climate Change Committee's advice published today⤵️

@davehawkey.bsky.social

Tony Blair’s ideas for net zero are expensive and unpopular The former PM’s clumsy climate intervention exposes the new political contest over the environment

Thanks @prospectmagazine.co.uk @aloner.bsky.social who let me write about Tony Blair's recent tribute act to the TB-GBs of New Labour, with some more serious consideration of where his NZ antipathy comes and the new politics if climate

mini 🧵

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🚗 | NEW REPORT: Around 25,000 car manufacturing jobs in the UK are at risk if Trump announces new tariffs today. But as one door closes another one opens. There is huge untapped potential in building & selling green planes, trains and automobiles.

Read here: www.ippr.org/articles/pla...

Poll: Scots do not trust either SNP or Labour to fix soaring energy bills Bills will rise on April 1 - and new polling has revealed Scots do not trust either the SNP or Scottish Labour to stop the trend

"The political debate is lopsided, focusing on electricity while ignoring our dependence on gas for heating. This is an amazing omission given gas makes up half of a typical Scottish energy bill." @davehawkey.bsky.social tells @alexofbrown.bsky.social @scotsman.com
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Scotland misses interim child poverty targets Child poverty figures are down, but they fall short of the Scottish government's interim target.

No child deserves to live in poverty, yet today's figures highlight the work still to be done to eradicate child poverty.

Tweaking the system isn’t enough - ending child poverty requires a clearer debate about our shared prosperity and how costs are distributed.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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🚨 New child poverty figures out today paint a stark picture - 22% of children in Scotland are trapped in poverty

➡️ While lower than the UK’s 31% rate, this still falls short of the 18% interim target. Urgent action is needed

Our response ⤵️

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IPPR Scotland responds to UK government’s spring statement | IPPR Stephen Boyd, director of IPPR Scotland, said:“The Chancellor is correct in saying that the world has changed. Fiscal challenges are only likely to intensi

IPPR Scotland response:

The government should think very carefully about how these costs are shared across society. Benefits and services can’t always be expected to take the strain. It is only fair and reasonable for taxation to play a much more prominent role.

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Child poverty isn’t inevitable. We can turn the tide and give every child in Scotland the chance to thrive 👩‍👦

Social security is key. When wages work together with strong social security, the impact is powerful. Senior Research Fellow @davehawkey.bsky.social explains 👇

Achieving the 2030 child poverty target: The distance left to travel | IPPR While 2023 will be the first year we see the full impact of the 'game changing' Scottish Child Payment, there is widespread pessimism that the target will

Today @ipprscotland.bsky.social publishes new analysis showing that by 2030 child poverty in Scotland will be:

- well below the rest of the UK due to devolved policies
- more than twice as high as the Scottish Government's current target

@davehawkey.bsky.social

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