Alison McGovern

Watching Louise Casey’s speech at @nuffieldtrust.org.uk Health Summit.

She traces the history of care from 1948, where Beveridge’s lack of focus on social care was in large part down to lower life expectancies & unpaid care.

That’s changed but she says ‘we haven’t looked it in the face’.

Clearly it would have been nice if Palace had beaten them today, but, you know, respect for this.

Daniel Sturridge on the telly 👏👏

Send support for schoolchildren in England to be given £4bn overhaul Bridget Phillipson says she has heeded calls to fund tailored provision and is also creating 60,000 places at special needs schools

Labour is rising to the generational challenge of properly supporting children with SEND.

We will set out our vision and ambition for a schools system where every child can achieve and thrive.
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That was a goal dammit. Ridiculous.

‘She did kill. There’s no grey area there’: Labour MP Naz Shah on the day she and her mother were arrested for murder The politician was 18 when she and her mum were hauled off to a police station for the killing of the man she’d considered an uncle. What happened next would shape her future. She talks Labour’s woes,...

What a life! Another brilliant interview by @shattenstone.bsky.social

Oh the curling has started!

Come on GB

James Milner, 40 years young, starts for Brighton at Brentford to make his record-breaking 654th Premier League appearance 👏

He's also the first man to play in 24 PL seasons, the competition's second-oldest scorer and its second-youngest scorer. Astonishing longevity 👑

Power, Peter Mandelson, and rage. In case there is any doubt, I wholeheartedly support the Prime Minister. We have done great things as a government. But there is more to…

Some thoughts on events in recent days:

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I’m putting tech firms on notice: deal with the appalling abuse of women online – or we will deal with you | Keir Starmer I see violence against women as a national emergency. The posting of non-consensual intimate images is part of that crisis, and it must stop, says UK prime minister Keir Starmer

I’m putting tech firms on notice: deal with the appalling abuse of women online – or we will deal with you | Keir Starmer

“Salah’s presence back in the team has made Liverpool better” 💪

Still composed, always candid, Gisèle Pelicot is the stro... The French heroine at the heart of a court case that shocked the world was as calm and impressive in her only UK television interview as she was on the stand

Gisèle Pelicot is the strongest woman I have ever met

“Strength is in my DNA”, she said, writes Victoria Derbyshire

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Olive Grove (Orange Sky) - 1889
https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/14597

There's no patriot like a Monaco-based patriot.

& me Tim. I'll never forget it x

In the worlds end pub

Wonderful

Going to @ucl.ac.uk changed my life & gave me the best friends a person could ask for.

It helped me think, write and argue. (Looking at you @jowolff.bsky.social @timcrane.bsky.social & others not on here)

Happy 200th UCL. Keep breaking the tradition.

Power, Peter Mandelson, and rage. In case there is any doubt, I wholeheartedly support the Prime Minister. We have done great things as a government. But there is more to…

Some thoughts on events in recent days:

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Get in LFCW! A win. An actual win!

This sounds like a quiet, technical update that will end up radically transforming communities.

Long time coming, this. A new Treasury Green Book with place-based analysis, taking account of the different economic history and potential across the UK. Very pleased Liverpool will help lead this new approach.

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Ellen Wilkinson, postwar education minister, died on this day 1947.

10 years of argument followed.

Today's debate on the two child limit shows that evidence matters. Thank you to everyone who made the argument, never gave up, kept listening to families and helped us move forward.

Our kids deserve this investment.

Keep going.

Ten years ago in Feb 2016 we debated in the Commons the bill that drove up child poverty.

The question: does money matters for children's life chances?

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This is a historic day for children and families across the UK as legislation to remove the two-child limit from our social security system starts to make its way through Parliament. The two-child limit was an awful experiment that hurt children. More than any other policy, the two-child limit is responsible for driving child poverty to its current record high. Poverty has a devastating impact on young lives. Children going without things they need to learn and grow, living in damp homes, struggling at school, facing isolation and stress. Today marks the moment when we start to turn things around for the next generation. We commend the government for making the choice to scrap the two-child limit and ask all MPs to stand with children and support this Bill. Every child deserves the best start in life, with a decent childhood that lays the foundations for a strong future. Ending the two-child limit sets our country on the right path to meet that ambition.

Today the Bill to end the two-child limit starts to make its way through Parliament.

The policy is responsible for driving child poverty to its current record high. Poverty has a devastating impact on young lives.

We’ve joined 65 other orgs in asking all MPs to support this Bill.

Cities Outlook 2026 Andy Carter, myself, Mayor Oliver Coppard and Stephen Bush

Was very pleased to speak about the @centreforcities.bsky.social 2026 Cities Outlook report....

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And that capital – just like the financial and human capital in our cities is what has driven this country forward in the past and will do again.