Emily Ashmore

The divergence in child versus pensioner income trends over both halves of the 2020s is also not new. In 2002-03 pensioners and children had very similar typical equivalised household incomes, but between then and 2023-24 the median pensioner income grew by 32 per cent and the child figure by 7 per cent (with the typical working-age income growing by 8 per cent). In cash terms, the equivalised household income gap between pensioners and children has grown from roughly zero in the early 2000s to over £5,000 by 2023-24 and potentially over £7,000 by 2029-30. As we explore below, this is also reflected in poverty figures.

The typical pensioner and typical child’s household income were once very similar, but have diverged.

In cash terms, the equivalised household income gap between pensioners and children has grown from roughly zero in the early 2000s to over £5,000 by 2023-24 and potentially over £7,000 by 2029-30.

NEW: The government has delayed the implementation of the welfare reforms.

They were due to come into effect in November 2026. They will now come into effect after the conclusion of a review by Stephen Timms.

The contentious four-point rule has reportedly been entirely removed from tonight’s bill.

💊The NHS is battling "medieval" levels of untreated illness in some of Britain's poorest communities – at a cost to the health service of about £50bn a year, or the same as the defence budget.

My big read from Barrow, Blackpool, Burnley and Blackburn:

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

If someone loses higher rate care PIP their family carer loses Carer’s allowance. The Carer will be required to work 30hours a week. The person they care for will require paid for carers, this will cost the state more than the PIP and CA. Make it make sense.

(for those asking what's going on on Twitter btw, basically if you remember Alexis & Krystle off of Dynasty fighting in the lilypond, it's that but one of them is leader of the free world)

Chart showing projections for child poverty until 2035 where this is projected to reach 36%.

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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The UK's record on child poverty is pretty terrible.

Based on before-housing-cost thresholds, only Greece had worse rates among European countries in 2018, explains @Alex__Clegg

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They look nice in frames…

They look nice in mocked up living rooms…

Builders just found some tubes with a bunch of A2 Beatles prints in them. As I didn’t know I had them, haven’t got space to store them and - frankly - need the money, I’m selling them for HALF PRICE! If you’re interested in a signed rooftop or living room print pls message me here. First come etc!

I long for a Claire McCardell pattern book

I wasn’t aware of that famous Nye Bevan quote ‘Ending child poverty won’t get me votes so fuck ‘em’

In my postnatal haze I adopted the work week of Persephone’s ‘How to Keep Your Home Without Help’ and quickly slid into PND. And that was without the coke boiler to riddle. Impossible is right.

There’s no excuse for chopping down a thing of beauty. And I don’t just mean the Sycamore Gap tree Talking therapies save lives, keep people out of hospital, help them back into work. So why is NHS England cutting them in its ‘financial reset’?

Short sighted foolish stepping away from much needed therapeutic engagement www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Here is the @thekingsfund.bsky.social analysis of UK healthcare spending compared to other countries

If you spend less than peer nations, you will have poorer health outcomes, fewer doctors, fewer scanners, fewer hospital beds etc

I’ve just started I have high hopes. James was also a small bright spot for me in a run of meh!

Ooh and Glyph by Ali Smith

James by Percival Everett - astounding

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Thank you Jill for the music. ‘Like a young Marlon Brando, not old fat Marlon Brando from Apocalypse Now’
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Indonesian student detained by Ice after US secretly revokes his visa Aditya Wahyu Harsono, father of infant with special needs, surprised at work despite valid visa through June 2026

Aditya Wahyu Harsono an Indonesian student, husband and father has just been detained by ICE after his visa was cancelled without informing him. A short thread about deportations…🧵

I urge anyone who is eligible to sign this

Graphic showing Jo and Chris, a couple. Neither are in work Jo cares for Chris who is living with a disability They claim UC after April 2016 and receive the LCWRA and carer elements, and Chris receives PIP They could lose £10,300.

How could changes to benefits affect households?

Vital context for yesterday’s Spring Statement ⬇️

4.7 million disabled families already facing hunger, 1.6 million children.

The is the group the Chancellor chose to slash incomes by £6.4 billion.

This is the group bearing all the pain of national &international challenges.

UK GP practices, who's interested in helping us pilot some training materials for improving patient safety in remote encounters (e.g. patients phoning in or sending e-requests and getting allocated to particular options such as GP callback, in-person appt etc)? Can offer free training to first five!

I’ve just emailed the Green Party and offered to campaign for their candidate for an upcoming local election. (Most likely to beat Labour.) I’ll do the same for every local and national election from here on out. 31 years I’ve voted Labour - bastards.

🚨 The rumoured cuts to disability and long-term sickness benefits are unprecedented.

If the total £6 billion cuts go ahead it would be the *biggest* cut to disability benefits since at least 2010 when the OBR was created. 🧵 [1/5]

I told mine I’d never vote Labour again and would proactively campaign against him at the next General Election if it goes through.