Emma Westcott
@ecwestcott.bsky.social
Executive Director, Strategy and Insight at the Nursing and Midwifery Council.
Social policy, politics, art, books, pottery, feminism, social justice, a cat or two. Own views.
Social policy, politics, art, books, pottery, feminism, social justice, a cat or two. Own views.
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The public think people arriving by small boats make up not only the largest share of asylum seekers, but the largest share of *all* immigrants. In fact, it's just 4% of the total number, write @bobbyduffy.bsky.social & @elielcohen.bsky.social
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November 16, 2025 at 5:06 PM
The public think people arriving by small boats make up not only the largest share of asylum seekers, but the largest share of *all* immigrants. In fact, it's just 4% of the total number, write @bobbyduffy.bsky.social & @elielcohen.bsky.social
➡️ blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsand...
➡️ blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsand...
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What will happen to children of asylum seekers born here ? Will they be forcibly removed to a country they don’t know now deemed to be safe ? What will happen to older children who came with parents and doing well in education ? Will refugee parents be removed from British partners and children?
November 15, 2025 at 8:40 PM
What will happen to children of asylum seekers born here ? Will they be forcibly removed to a country they don’t know now deemed to be safe ? What will happen to older children who came with parents and doing well in education ? Will refugee parents be removed from British partners and children?
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Newly added to the word pile. Remembering the unjustly forgotten folk-soul succour of Jimmie & Vella.
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Lieutenant Uhura helped discover them. James Baldwin championed them. Bobby Womack produced them. They shared a manager with Jimi Hendrix. So why didn't it happen for Jimmie & Vella? | Pete Paphides
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November 15, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Newly added to the word pile. Remembering the unjustly forgotten folk-soul succour of Jimmie & Vella.
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Thought this when my son was looking for work. He’d submit loads of tech-enabled applications, employers would use crude AI sift tools to get through far to make applications, no-one is well-served
It's a useful reminder that sometimes tech can make a task more efficient for one side (applying for jobs), and more efficient for the other side (writing job adverts), and yet make the system as a whole completely inefficient.
November 15, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Thought this when my son was looking for work. He’d submit loads of tech-enabled applications, employers would use crude AI sift tools to get through far to make applications, no-one is well-served
Lord, grant me the self-belief of Amol Rajan subjecting interviewee Juliet Stevenson to his off by heart Lear speech
November 12, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Lord, grant me the self-belief of Amol Rajan subjecting interviewee Juliet Stevenson to his off by heart Lear speech
Monday, inexorably
November 10, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Monday, inexorably
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Anyway, we need some joy, so here's the Egyptian foreign minister being given a Lego Pyramid by the Danish foreign minister.
November 3, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Anyway, we need some joy, so here's the Egyptian foreign minister being given a Lego Pyramid by the Danish foreign minister.
Some readers, all by Felice Casorati
November 2, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Some readers, all by Felice Casorati
Justin Webb has a tendency towards the glib. Said on Today that the difference between 3 science GCSE option and the 2 is that three sciences is ‘basically the academic route’. My daughter took two and is thriving in her arts and social sci A levels. She also did a language unlike many peers 1/
November 1, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Justin Webb has a tendency towards the glib. Said on Today that the difference between 3 science GCSE option and the 2 is that three sciences is ‘basically the academic route’. My daughter took two and is thriving in her arts and social sci A levels. She also did a language unlike many peers 1/
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Almost 100% of children in 73 neighbourhoods in England are living in income-deprived families.
Govts push real wage/benefit cuts, two-child benefit cap; oppose universal basic income; don't curb profiteering.
No govt targets to cut poverty.
1% has more wealth than 70% of the population combined.
Govts push real wage/benefit cuts, two-child benefit cap; oppose universal basic income; don't curb profiteering.
No govt targets to cut poverty.
1% has more wealth than 70% of the population combined.
Almost all children in 73 areas of England live in low-income households
New official measures show levelling up attempts have failed to shift high levels of deprivation
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October 31, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Almost 100% of children in 73 neighbourhoods in England are living in income-deprived families.
Govts push real wage/benefit cuts, two-child benefit cap; oppose universal basic income; don't curb profiteering.
No govt targets to cut poverty.
1% has more wealth than 70% of the population combined.
Govts push real wage/benefit cuts, two-child benefit cap; oppose universal basic income; don't curb profiteering.
No govt targets to cut poverty.
1% has more wealth than 70% of the population combined.
