A sample chapter (chapter one) of Time, Welfare and Society is now available via www.elgaronline.com/monobook/boo...
Lee Gregory (he/him) 🏳️🌈
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Time, Welfare and Society is now published!! We talk a lot about money in welfare debates — but far less about time. Yet time is the resource people lose first: waiting, repeating, proving, recovering. This book asks: What if welfare began with time instead? www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/tim...
Time, Welfare and Society is almost here. We talk a lot about money in welfare debates — but far less about time. Yet time is the resource people lose first: waiting, repeating, proving, recovering. This book asks: What if welfare began with time instead? #TimeJustice #Welfare
New blog post for Transforming Society via @brisunipress.bsky.social Making the case for not cutting welfare to fund defence spending www.transformingsociety.co.uk/2026/07/01/d...
Defence vs welfare: Why this is a false choice in UK politics - Transforming Society
Lee Gregory suggest that the next Labour leader should reject the false choice between welfare and defence by arguing that reducing poverty is an essential investment in national security, economic st...
transformingsociety.co.uk
New paper just out in Journal of Poverty & Social Justice 🏳️🌈 Timely for #PrideMonth exploring the experiences of LGBTQ+ social security claimants in Scotland and key issues around inequality & social justice. Read here: bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...
bristoluniversitypressdigital.com
Labour lost almost four times as many voters to the Greens as they did to Reform UK in the local elections, according to new YouGov polling
Digging into how the UK’s political landscape has shifted — and what that means for the unfinished project of queer citizenship. #IDAHOBIT 🌈 The UK’s Fall from Grace and the Unfinished Business of Queer Citizenship sites.google.com/view/lee-gre...
Lee Gregory - The UK's Fall from Grace and the Unfinished Business of Queer Citizenship
The UK’s Fall from Grace and the Unfinished Business of Queer Citizenship.
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Stark from @jrf_uk: HH in lowest 1/3 of incomes in their 30s, between 1978-89 & 2018-19: - Homeownership rates fell from 52% to 28% - Proportion of social renters fell from 41% to 29% - Proportion of private renters increased from 7% to 43%. Housing driving hunger. www.jrf.org.uk/housing/unde...
Under pressure: The affordability challenges facing private renters
In the past 2 years, rents in the UK have risen by an average of nearly 8%. Here we look at different dimensions of rent-affordability pressure faced by tenants in the private rented sector.
jrf.org.uk
Trans people are being abused on social media simply for existing as their affirmed selves. This breaks down why it essential trans people have a voice. rejserin.medium.com/defending-tr...
Defending trans social media
A note on terminology. I used gender critical philosophical beliefs, gender critics, holders of gender critical beliefs when discussing…
rejserin.medium.com
The damage that austerity has done to people - and the strain it has shifted onto the NHS, social security system and councils - is probably the most under-discussed phenomenon of British politics ... because it disproportionately affects working class people. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
UK healthy life expectancy falls by two years in past decade
Poor housing, obesity and the effects of deprivation have been suggested as underlying cause.
bbc.co.uk
New book! Housing Inequality in the 21st Century is now published. The book explores how policy, markets and wider social change are reshaping housing inequality—and why this matters for wellbeing and justice. policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/housing-ineq... #Housing #Inequality #PublicPolicy
Housing Inequality in the 21st Century
Housing Inequality in the 21st Century - Social Policy and the Political Economy of Housing in the UK; This book exposes how deep-rooted political and economic forces continue to shape unequal housing...
policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk
Another paper showing that family poverty is more important than psychosocial adversities Parental socioeconomic resources and adverse childhood experiences as predictors of not in education, employment, or training: a Finnish register-based longitudinal study: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Parental socioeconomic resources and adverse childhood experiences as predictors of not in education, employment, or training: a Finnish register-based longitudinal study
Socioeconomic disadvantage in childhood is common among youth not in education, employment or training (NEETs). However, the evidence on other adverse childhood experiences as determinants of NEET ...
tandfonline.com
Child poverty isn't just bad, it results in an enduring earnings gap. This gap between graduates who grew up in poverty and those who didn't persists even for people who go to the same university, get the same degree and work for the same firm ⤵️ buff.ly/5VfX2Fi
Translation: "I started something I can't finish and broke something I can't fix so I'm going to walk away and pretend it's your fault"
What will it take to build a future where no one needs a food bank? Our Social Change Advisor, @heather-buckingham.bsky.social asks this in her new book, A Taste for Change. Available for pre-order now. From 17-20 Feb, Waterstones are offering 25% off with the code FEB26: https://bit.ly/4kKgc6r
A Taste for Change by Heather Buckingham | Waterstones
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Suella Braverman says Reform would scrap the Equality Act 2010. Law prevents discrimination on the basis of age, disability, gender, marital status, race, religion and sexual orientation. Reform taking us back to Victorian era, removing hope. Our predecessors fought hard for social rights.
Reform accused of ‘pitching for votes of misogynists and homophobes’
Charities have warned that scrapping the Equality Act would be a ‘significant step backwards’ for discrimination protections in Britain
independent.co.uk
April 2026 will mark a true milestone for the UK benefits system: the end of the thirteen-year rollout of Universal Credit that has brought together all means-tested working-age benefits. But there are still further improvements to be made ⤵️ buff.ly/TjrE4OW
Do homophobia and sexual prejudice still exist in tolerant societies? In POQ, Ortega & Bosco's new study reveals how non-traditional relationships continue to be stigmatised in parenting contexts, even in seemingly liberal societies. Read now: doi.org/10.1093/poq/...
UK Universities cut 13,300 jobs, paid £300m+ in redundancy. Economic contribution of the HE sector, £265bn. Systematically destroyed by govts - foreign students not welcome, cut real-term grants, fees, students burdened with debts, low staff pay/morale. Govt want skilled labour. archive.ph/favYt
Pay-off spend up by two-thirds as universities shed 13,000 jobs
Analysis of UK sector accounts shows number of job losses well above predictions, with experts warning cuts are not over yet
timeshighereducation.com
"Congratulations, we are cutting migration. But we have persistently high NHS waiting lists, a shortage of social care, collapsing universities, missed housebuilding targets, lower economic growth and higher taxes." My new column for @theipaper.com inews.co.uk/opinion/fall...
Falling migration could be about to drive your taxes up
Our reliance on migration for economic stability and adequate care for our ageing population is obvious and undeniable
inews.co.uk
Trump orders special forces commanders to draw up a plan to invade Greenland. This would deflect attention from the economic crisis and killing of citizens at home. Europe won't resist. What next? New age of imperial emperors will create insecurity. Europe must make new alliances.
Trump 'orders US army chiefs to draw up plan to invade Greenland'
Donald Trump has ordered his special forces commanders to draw up a plan for the invasion of Greenland - but is being resisted by senior military figures, The Mail on Sunday has learned.
dailymail.co.uk
Christmas presents once again contribute to the ongoing success of parkrun. Only 15 runs this year and I think about 69 volunteer stints (5k and juniors).
Poorest Britons lose right to financial privacy. The Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Act 2025 empowers the state to 24/7 snoop on the bank accounts of recipients of universal credit; employment and support allowance; state pension credit. No court order needed. No right of appeal.
In our first paper on instrumental inclusion we showed that people update their views on LGBTQ+ rights in response to out-group threat. Here we extend the theory to test diverse cases of selective inclusion doi.org/10.1017/psrm...
Selectively (il)liberal: theory and evidence on nativist disidentification | Political Science Research and Methods | Cambridge Core
Selectively (il)liberal: theory and evidence on nativist disidentification
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Alberto López Ortega@bertous.bsky.social · 8mo agoNew publication with @turnbulldugarte.com in @psrm.bsky.social! 🧵 We study whether citizens’ liberal values are selective: do people support policies based on who promotes them? Short answer: Yes, and it's driven by ethnic out-group disidentification. (1/11) 👇 doi.org/10.1017/psrm...
NEW report from @nehaldavison.bsky.social and I. Why have successive governments failed to tackle persistent inequalities in early years outcomes? We set out 5 systemic policy making failures that lead to some children being 'left behind'. 🧵⬇️ www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/publication/...
Policy making blind spots | Institute for Government
The systemic policy-making failures that have contributed to a sharp ‘cliff-edge’ in attainment levels.
instituteforgovernment.org.uk