Theo Sheridan-Watts
@theosheridanwatts.bsky.social
Work at faithinthenorth.org and Leeds School of Theology as well as some Charity Consultancy. Too much time thinking about politics and cricket and content will probably reflect a mix of those as well as faith/theology.
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Terrific piece by @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk, and exactly right, I think:
They are just like the Tories
Different policies, same sense of misjudgement
www.joxleywrites.jmoxley.co.uk
May 1, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Terrific piece by @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk, and exactly right, I think:
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Reminded this Easter of these words from our friend Tim Keller, even as he knew his own death was imminent.
April 19, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Reminded this Easter of these words from our friend Tim Keller, even as he knew his own death was imminent.
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Crrrrrrrrackers system
According to Times and ITV reporters the OBR has only scored proposed welfare cuts at a £3.4bn saving not £5bn. So the government is doing an additional £500m of new cuts.
March 25, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Crrrrrrrrackers system
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I'm in LabourList, writing about Project Chainsaw, Scottish DOGE, and Labour talking about making Britain great again, all of which does nothing but signal desperation and a clanging lack of ideological self confidence.
labourlist.org/2025/03/labo...
labourlist.org/2025/03/labo...
‘Labour should drop the chainsaw rhetoric and stop trying to impress journalists' - LabourList
Morgan Jones argues that Labour does not need to riff on Milei and Musk.
labourlist.org
March 19, 2025 at 10:54 AM
I'm in LabourList, writing about Project Chainsaw, Scottish DOGE, and Labour talking about making Britain great again, all of which does nothing but signal desperation and a clanging lack of ideological self confidence.
labourlist.org/2025/03/labo...
labourlist.org/2025/03/labo...
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NEW 🧵 Is human intelligence starting to decline?
Recent results from major international tests show that the average person’s capacity to process information, use reasoning and solve novel problems has been falling since around the mid 2010s
What should we make of this?
www.ft.com/content/a801...
Recent results from major international tests show that the average person’s capacity to process information, use reasoning and solve novel problems has been falling since around the mid 2010s
What should we make of this?
www.ft.com/content/a801...
March 14, 2025 at 1:18 PM
NEW 🧵 Is human intelligence starting to decline?
Recent results from major international tests show that the average person’s capacity to process information, use reasoning and solve novel problems has been falling since around the mid 2010s
What should we make of this?
www.ft.com/content/a801...
Recent results from major international tests show that the average person’s capacity to process information, use reasoning and solve novel problems has been falling since around the mid 2010s
What should we make of this?
www.ft.com/content/a801...
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Tonight York Minster I started a tour to teach The Lord’s Prayer across the North of England. Delighted to meet and speak with people about its ongoing relevance in today’s world, encouraging everyone to live by its powerful, transformative words.
March 7, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Tonight York Minster I started a tour to teach The Lord’s Prayer across the North of England. Delighted to meet and speak with people about its ongoing relevance in today’s world, encouraging everyone to live by its powerful, transformative words.
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We said the assisted dying bill would be a slippery slope - that it wouldn’t stay at 6mo to live, and a terminal illness.
Now members of the bill committee are putting forward an amendment to make it 12mo to live where there is a neurodegenerative condition
Now members of the bill committee are putting forward an amendment to make it 12mo to live where there is a neurodegenerative condition
February 6, 2025 at 8:57 AM
We said the assisted dying bill would be a slippery slope - that it wouldn’t stay at 6mo to live, and a terminal illness.
Now members of the bill committee are putting forward an amendment to make it 12mo to live where there is a neurodegenerative condition
Now members of the bill committee are putting forward an amendment to make it 12mo to live where there is a neurodegenerative condition
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Photo of the Day, if not the Year.
Solidarity and admiration.
📸This brilliant photo of Gisele Pelicot, leaving court for the final time yesterday, was taken by Arnold Jerocki for Getty Images.
Solidarity and admiration.
📸This brilliant photo of Gisele Pelicot, leaving court for the final time yesterday, was taken by Arnold Jerocki for Getty Images.
December 20, 2024 at 11:14 AM
Photo of the Day, if not the Year.
Solidarity and admiration.
📸This brilliant photo of Gisele Pelicot, leaving court for the final time yesterday, was taken by Arnold Jerocki for Getty Images.
Solidarity and admiration.
📸This brilliant photo of Gisele Pelicot, leaving court for the final time yesterday, was taken by Arnold Jerocki for Getty Images.
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Our benefits system is absolutely certainly one of the drivers of higher rates of long term inactivity - terrible decisions in the 2010s created a binary system that asks people to prove they are too ill to work
This is excellent from @jburnmurdoch.bsky.social. www.ft.com/content/1409... Inactivity due to long-term sickness is up, but that could be a more subjective trend than you might think. Health-related benefit take-up may be affecting long-term sickness numbers as well as the reverse.
December 6, 2024 at 12:40 PM
Our benefits system is absolutely certainly one of the drivers of higher rates of long term inactivity - terrible decisions in the 2010s created a binary system that asks people to prove they are too ill to work
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Chris Wormald - the balance sheet. In favour:
1. vastly experienced (much, much more than Case). Run two v big budget depts. also held senior role in what is now MHCLG; done time at the centre as head of EDS and heading Clegg office. former head of policy profession.
1. vastly experienced (much, much more than Case). Run two v big budget depts. also held senior role in what is now MHCLG; done time at the centre as head of EDS and heading Clegg office. former head of policy profession.
December 2, 2024 at 9:37 PM
Chris Wormald - the balance sheet. In favour:
1. vastly experienced (much, much more than Case). Run two v big budget depts. also held senior role in what is now MHCLG; done time at the centre as head of EDS and heading Clegg office. former head of policy profession.
1. vastly experienced (much, much more than Case). Run two v big budget depts. also held senior role in what is now MHCLG; done time at the centre as head of EDS and heading Clegg office. former head of policy profession.