Yasmin Ibison

Nothing like enjoying your slightly cheaper pint while imagining the toddler crying from hunger that paid for it.

"would otherwise receive immediate access to welfare and social housing" is BS.

Correct: "after 5 years working in a care home, would be eligible to apply for welfare and social housing on the same basis as the rest of us."

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Deliberately misleading/disingenous.

Help us map disciplines of civic renewal — roles & skills communities need to revitalise civic life Help us map the disciplines of civic renewal — the roles and skills communities need to revitalise civic life If helping us map public sector reform communities wasn’t enough… We’re starting …

NEW @kinship.works for @jrf-uk.bsky.social

Help us map the disciplines of civic renewal

- We know community-led approaches to reviving civic life (Big Local, etc) work

- But we lack understanding of disciplines/professional roles that enable it

What should we look at?

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⚖️ 'Persistent inequalities are not inevitable'

Senior Policy Adviser @yasminibison.bsky.social highlights the ethnic groups in the UK with an elevated risk of being in poverty, and structural factors behind why this is the case.

Community-led approaches will be vital to making a difference.

What do people in England think about their local area? In this short report I take a look at surveys we conducted with @yougov.co.uk in 2022, 2024 and 2025 to gain some insights...

Some key findings...

Visualising Extractive Capitalism From the formation of the plantation slave economy to the modern-day climate crisis, we map how empire and extractive capitalism shaped Barbados, Britain and the wider world.

Slavery & colonialism aren’t things that happened far away & long ago.

We continue to live with their consequences.

Our new project visualises extractive capitalism in the Caribbean.

🧵 This is how empire shapes Barbados, Britain & the world.

visualising-extractive-capitalism.common-wealth.org

Grim grim grim

New net migration figures at 930am.

Net migration fell half a million to 344,000 in 2024 from 848k in 2023

56% of people think it went up last year
17% think stayed the same
14% think it went down

2025 figure to be lower again
16% expect that
38% think it will be up
31% about the same

Every child, no matter their background, deserves to have a good start in life. Ethnic minority children were disproportionately impacted by the two child limit which widens ethnic disparities in child poverty rates.

Scrapping this cruel policy to lift 450000 children out of poverty is a huge win!

Asylum and returns policy statement This policy statement sets out significant reforms to the UK’s asylum and returns policy.

I'm reading through the white paper or whatever it is. RESTORING ORDER AND CONTROL: A statement on the government’s asylum and returns policy www.gov.uk/government/p...

DWP modelling show a fall of 400,000 over the current Parliament. This would be the biggest on record, exceeding falls of 300,000 under the first Government of Tony Blair and the Government of Harold Wilson and James Callaghan.

Chancellor said lifting 2-child limit means "Biggest reduction in child poverty over a Parliament since records began." Estimated 400k reduction would be, but modelling is always uncertain. What is certain is that removing the 2 Child Limit is pivotal to the fall.

Every child, no matter their background, deserves to have a good start in life. Ethnic minority children were disproportionately impacted by the two child limit which widens ethnic disparities in child poverty rates.

Scrapping this cruel policy to lift 450000 children out of poverty is a huge win!

🎉Child poverty is at a record high, so the decision to end the two child limit is crucial

Poverty holds children back, with consequences for all of us. Every child should have a good start in life

This measure alone lifts 450,000 out of poverty & lessens severity for many more

Scrapping the two-child limit in full is a monumental decision. Well done to all involved in the Child Poverty Strategy, and everyone who has made the case against the policy.

OBR says scrapping costs £3 billion in 2029-30 and will lift 450,000 out of poverty

'Economic insecurity is draining Labour’s support across the spectrum, to both left and right, and to ‘undecided’.'

Read the full report from @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social @profjanegreen.bsky.social on our website here:

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If Labour want a fairer society, they must argue for it Labour must make the political argument: taxes are the critical downpayment we all pay to live in a fairer society.  It now seems all but certain that direct taxes will rise in the forthcoming Budget...

Breaking the tax pledge is the right call...and politically sulphurous. Reeves must argue, far more forcefully, that taxes are *the* essential downpayment we all pay for a fairer society.

Patrick Diamond and I wrote for @renewaljournal.bsky.social. Key points in 🧵 👇

renewal.org.uk/blog/if-labo...

the neutral users saw twice as much right-wing content as left-wing content

This @skynewsrss.bsky.social analysis confirms that X's algorithm is blatantly boosting far-right content

If you are still posting or engaging there, you are volunteering your time and effort towards actively assisting a racist, white supremacist project

STOP ALREADY

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🚨New deprivation data reveals continual deep regional divides across many areas in England.

High levels of deprivation are concentrated in many ex-industrial northern and midlands towns and coastal areas, where manufacturing and tourism industries have been lost.

What is life really like in one of England's most deprived towns? Hastings in East Sussex is one of the most deprived local authorities in England, data shows.

Spoke to the BBC about the drivers of deprivation and the impact on families. There's a clear link between living in hardship & feeling socially/politically disconnected.

To make meaningful progress, communities must be involved in decisions affecting their lives.

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Several reasons why the most severe deprivation is sticky - most of todays most deprived places have not seen relative improvement for decades.

But few things have done more to make matters worse than completely obliterating council funding in the most deprived places, as we did in the 2010s

Deprivation isn’t only a rural or coastal issue. Some larger cities - Manchester, Birmingham & London - see high levels of deprivation too - driven by high housing costs and high levels of insecure work and low pay.

Wherever you live should not affect your chances in life -but this is not the case.

Weak labour markets and low wages drive high deprivation in these areas.

While housing costs tend to be lower, the quality of housing can be much poorer.

🏠For example, 1 in 4 (25%) homes in Blackpool and 1 in 5 (21%) homes in Hastings are of poor quality.

🚨New deprivation data reveals continual deep regional divides across many areas in England.

High levels of deprivation are concentrated in many ex-industrial northern and midlands towns and coastal areas, where manufacturing and tourism industries have been lost.

About a tenth of relationships in the UK are mixed race.

X seems full of people who think they are the only relationships in TV advertising. This suggests people filter out the ones featuring white families, and then trigger themselves into anger if a mixed race couple appear.

Tory deportation plan would upend Britain Proposing such a radical bill with little public support is a gift to Nigel Farage

Hadn’t, in truth, really absorbed the scale of what the Conservatives are proposing on ILR and immigration more broadly until this week’s Sunday Times interviews. Some thoughts on that in today’s note:

The colour of poverty: Black and brown children are at the sharp end of the crisis Policies to tackle child poverty that don’t acknowledge the impact of race are simply not going to cut it.

Spoke to @theleaduk.bsky.social about ethnicity & child poverty

24% of white children are in poverty - rates are much higher for Bangladeshi (67%) Pakistani (61%) & Black African (49%) children. Govt must consider how racism drives hardship for ethnic minority families
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The colour of poverty: Black and brown children are at the sharp end of the crisis Policies to tackle child poverty that don’t acknowledge the impact of race are simply not going to cut it.

Spoke to @theleaduk.bsky.social about ethnicity & child poverty

24% of white children are in poverty - rates are much higher for Bangladeshi (67%) Pakistani (61%) & Black African (49%) children. Govt must consider how racism drives hardship for ethnic minority families
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Our new film argues that community power is the antidote to division and democratic decline.

Give communities the power to fix broken Britain from the ground up.

🎥 Watch and share.

Read the story behind the film: www.right-here.org/community-po...

Film by @tuz0.bsky.social

‘Frightened to get out of their cars’: Britain’s toxic race debates threaten overseas care workers Staff are being advised to travel in mixed groups and carry panic alarms as incidents of intimidation spread

‘Frightened to get out of their cars’: Britain’s toxic race debates threaten overseas care workers

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