In another brilliant sketch @willdunn.bsky.social nails the weird folk-public-school vernacular of Reform and the Reform-curious:

New Index of Multiple Deprivation out today. Jaywick still stubbornly at the bottom, followed by lots of Blackpool neighbourhoods still.

The rise of the proportion of children in income-deprived households from 2019 to 2025 is wild:

Warm, entertaining, revealing profile of Andy Burnham - a good boy and one of the lads - by @tommctague.bsky.social:

www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...

Shocking detail in this great report by Faye Curran on pregnancy, birth, and raising babies in English prisons:

www.newstatesman.com/politics/hea...

Disturbing dispatch from yesterday's rally by @georgemonaghan.bsky.social:

www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...