Jennifer Churchill
@redjen.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Economics UWE Bristol; macro, finance (especially pensions) and also philosophy. Previously dabbled in politics, policy, public affairs
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The improvement in the employment rate of non-EU migrants to the UK over the past 15 years is remarkable, especially since the pandemic.
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November 11, 2025 at 8:09 AM
The improvement in the employment rate of non-EU migrants to the UK over the past 15 years is remarkable, especially since the pandemic.
www.ons.gov.uk/employmentan...
www.ons.gov.uk/employmentan...
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‘They give the impression that the BBC has caved in to a concerted campaign of pressure from rightwing media and political forces on both sides of the Atlantic.’ You could cut out the first five words of that
FT Editorial on the BBC - The broadcaster has made errors, but its board has failed to defend it www.ft.com/content/406e...
November 11, 2025 at 9:03 AM
‘They give the impression that the BBC has caved in to a concerted campaign of pressure from rightwing media and political forces on both sides of the Atlantic.’ You could cut out the first five words of that
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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...
Patrick Diamond and I wrote for @renewaljournal.bsky.social. Key points in 🧵 👇
renewal.org.uk/blog/if-labo...
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...
renewal.org.uk
November 10, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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...
Patrick Diamond and I wrote for @renewaljournal.bsky.social. Key points in 🧵 👇
renewal.org.uk/blog/if-labo...
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NEW: Tim Davie resignation email to staff.
“You will ask why now? why this moment?”
“You will ask why now? why this moment?”
November 9, 2025 at 6:30 PM
NEW: Tim Davie resignation email to staff.
“You will ask why now? why this moment?”
“You will ask why now? why this moment?”
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March 2024: We launch a complaint against the IEA
12 days later: Charity Commission dismisses our complaint
May 2024: We complain about that decision
1 year later: The regulator opens an investigation into the IEA
This week: The Charity Commission says the IEA must change
https://goodlaw.social/8vmm
12 days later: Charity Commission dismisses our complaint
May 2024: We complain about that decision
1 year later: The regulator opens an investigation into the IEA
This week: The Charity Commission says the IEA must change
https://goodlaw.social/8vmm
Charity Commission: IEA must change to address political bias | Good Law Project
After a formal complaint from Good Law Project, the charities regulator has told a radical rightwing think-tank to act on transparency and balance.
goodlaw.social
November 8, 2025 at 7:02 PM
March 2024: We launch a complaint against the IEA
12 days later: Charity Commission dismisses our complaint
May 2024: We complain about that decision
1 year later: The regulator opens an investigation into the IEA
This week: The Charity Commission says the IEA must change
https://goodlaw.social/8vmm
12 days later: Charity Commission dismisses our complaint
May 2024: We complain about that decision
1 year later: The regulator opens an investigation into the IEA
This week: The Charity Commission says the IEA must change
https://goodlaw.social/8vmm
These discussions, imho, should be brought together with discussions to reduce normal working hours. I don’t want five years of guaranteed pension payment. I want lifelong work/life balance. Bring “retirement” forward and enjoy it your whole life
Today @stevewebb1.bsky.social and I released a report setting out our views on where State Pension Age (SPA) needs to go. We submitted to this to the Government SPA review last month.
We recommend sharp increases to SPA, but with a guaranteed payout of 5 years. 🧵
www.lcp.com/en/insights/...
We recommend sharp increases to SPA, but with a guaranteed payout of 5 years. 🧵
www.lcp.com/en/insights/...
Where next for State Pension Age?
Experts at LCP have proposed major changes to the UK's State Pension system, designed to make it more sustainable while ensuring it remains fair for those with lower life expectancy.
www.lcp.com
November 8, 2025 at 10:03 AM
These discussions, imho, should be brought together with discussions to reduce normal working hours. I don’t want five years of guaranteed pension payment. I want lifelong work/life balance. Bring “retirement” forward and enjoy it your whole life
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With the rather awkward caveat that you'd only get the money when you're dead?
November 8, 2025 at 9:50 AM
With the rather awkward caveat that you'd only get the money when you're dead?
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Good piece as always by @katie0martin.ft.com on.ft.com/43NcG3R
As a historian, I differ in emphasis from this bit. We have of course used the "nuclear option" many times in the past (and the world didn't fall in). In the right political and geopolitical conditions, we may do so again.
As a historian, I differ in emphasis from this bit. We have of course used the "nuclear option" many times in the past (and the world didn't fall in). In the right political and geopolitical conditions, we may do so again.
November 5, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Good piece as always by @katie0martin.ft.com on.ft.com/43NcG3R
As a historian, I differ in emphasis from this bit. We have of course used the "nuclear option" many times in the past (and the world didn't fall in). In the right political and geopolitical conditions, we may do so again.
As a historian, I differ in emphasis from this bit. We have of course used the "nuclear option" many times in the past (and the world didn't fall in). In the right political and geopolitical conditions, we may do so again.
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From 'Politics and the English Language' by George Orwell
November 5, 2025 at 8:56 AM
From 'Politics and the English Language' by George Orwell
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How big are these coach and horses that they can be seen from space?
November 5, 2025 at 8:32 AM
How big are these coach and horses that they can be seen from space?
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Everyone is hope scrolling now
November 5, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Everyone is hope scrolling now
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Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."
November 5, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."
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Late period Osborne: interest rates at zero and 50-80bn of headroom: and his priority was “don’t invest”.
November 4, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Late period Osborne: interest rates at zero and 50-80bn of headroom: and his priority was “don’t invest”.
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Some say the solution to the UK’s productivity slump is to expand the sectors that pay the highest salaries. Next time you hear that ask the person how many quant hedge fund computer scientists earning £250k-£800k they think the economy needs to become more productive.
London becomes ‘quant’ powerhouse as traders rake in revenues
A pipeline of skilled graduates is helping the UK build out its expertise in algorithmic trading
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November 2, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Some say the solution to the UK’s productivity slump is to expand the sectors that pay the highest salaries. Next time you hear that ask the person how many quant hedge fund computer scientists earning £250k-£800k they think the economy needs to become more productive.
Where gov thinking is at on multi-employer CDC assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/68f891...
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk
October 29, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Where gov thinking is at on multi-employer CDC assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/68f891...
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5 reasons for opening this blog, CDC,CDC,CDC,CDC,video!
This is the Video of one of Pension PlayPen's best ever coffee mornings. Just check out the faces on this screenshot and you'll get some feeling for what happened over 61 glorious minutes of excitement about CDC. Here are five good reasons…
This is the Video of one of Pension PlayPen's best ever coffee mornings. Just check out the faces on this screenshot and you'll get some feeling for what happened over 61 glorious minutes of excitement about CDC. Here are five good reasons…
5 reasons for opening this blog, CDC,CDC,CDC,CDC,video!
This is the Video of one of Pension PlayPen's best ever coffee mornings. Just check out the faces on this screenshot and you'll get some feeling for what happened over 61 glorious minutes of excitement about CDC. Here are five good reasons why I watched myself and 40 other people getting into CDC They include great people talking - me, Chris Bunford, Adrian Boulding, Julian Barker and many more!
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October 29, 2025 at 7:37 AM
5 reasons for opening this blog, CDC,CDC,CDC,CDC,video!
This is the Video of one of Pension PlayPen's best ever coffee mornings. Just check out the faces on this screenshot and you'll get some feeling for what happened over 61 glorious minutes of excitement about CDC. Here are five good reasons…
This is the Video of one of Pension PlayPen's best ever coffee mornings. Just check out the faces on this screenshot and you'll get some feeling for what happened over 61 glorious minutes of excitement about CDC. Here are five good reasons…
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For women, #HardWorkPaysNothing
Women do most of the world’s care work - yet it remains undervalued, unpaid, or underpaid.
This #CareDay, we call on governments to make care a public good & invest in universal, funded care systems.
Let's #UniteForFairChange
Women do most of the world’s care work - yet it remains undervalued, unpaid, or underpaid.
This #CareDay, we call on governments to make care a public good & invest in universal, funded care systems.
Let's #UniteForFairChange
October 28, 2025 at 9:00 PM
For women, #HardWorkPaysNothing
Women do most of the world’s care work - yet it remains undervalued, unpaid, or underpaid.
This #CareDay, we call on governments to make care a public good & invest in universal, funded care systems.
Let's #UniteForFairChange
Women do most of the world’s care work - yet it remains undervalued, unpaid, or underpaid.
This #CareDay, we call on governments to make care a public good & invest in universal, funded care systems.
Let's #UniteForFairChange
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BREAKING: A person in the richest 0.1% produces more carbon pollution in a day than someone in the bottom 50% produces all year.
Same pollution. Different worlds. But only one pays the price.
👉Read Oxfam's new #ClimatePlunder report to learn more. oxf.am/climateplund...
#MakeRichPo#MakeRichPollutersPay
Same pollution. Different worlds. But only one pays the price.
👉Read Oxfam's new #ClimatePlunder report to learn more. oxf.am/climateplund...
#MakeRichPo#MakeRichPollutersPay
October 29, 2025 at 6:00 AM
BREAKING: A person in the richest 0.1% produces more carbon pollution in a day than someone in the bottom 50% produces all year.
Same pollution. Different worlds. But only one pays the price.
👉Read Oxfam's new #ClimatePlunder report to learn more. oxf.am/climateplund...
#MakeRichPo#MakeRichPollutersPay
Same pollution. Different worlds. But only one pays the price.
👉Read Oxfam's new #ClimatePlunder report to learn more. oxf.am/climateplund...
#MakeRichPo#MakeRichPollutersPay
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October 28, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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A strategy based on 'well, what if everything political science tells us, everything economics tells us and everything history tells us is wrong?' is ending in a predictable fashion.
It's increasingly obvious that Labour's strategy - call it Starmerism, Blue Labour, whatever - has got it badly wrong. It has alienated the party's core vote while failing to win over those leaning to Reform. There was no shortage of people warning them they were getting it wrong either.
Three years ago, Labour was polling in the 50s.
October 28, 2025 at 12:07 PM
A strategy based on 'well, what if everything political science tells us, everything economics tells us and everything history tells us is wrong?' is ending in a predictable fashion.
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Call for papers: Ian Hacking and the Philosophy of Psychiatry. Deadline: 1st February 2026. Guest editors: Şerife Tekin and Jonathan Y. Tsou. Submit your work! think.taylorandfranc... #philsky #philpsy #philsci
Ian Hacking and the Philosophy of Psychiatry
Submit work that examines how Hacking’s historical and pragmatic approach to philosophy has reshaped inquiries into psychiatry.
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October 24, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Call for papers: Ian Hacking and the Philosophy of Psychiatry. Deadline: 1st February 2026. Guest editors: Şerife Tekin and Jonathan Y. Tsou. Submit your work! think.taylorandfranc... #philsky #philpsy #philsci
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The most immediate requirement is to reply to certain questions arising from the consultation. I suspect that only minor changes will be made as the roadmap is "aspirant"!
CDC’s got a hard centre. Tough talking from DWP (4 TPR)
This blog bites inside the sweet messages of a 60% better pension for members to find what the DWP (and its regulator) have in mind beyond what was laid in 2022, is being laid now but what will nee…
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October 24, 2025 at 6:44 AM
The most immediate requirement is to reply to certain questions arising from the consultation. I suspect that only minor changes will be made as the roadmap is "aspirant"!
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'The emperor of European research funding is no miser, even when it comes to the social sciences. He is naked, nevertheless.' 1/2
Horizon Europe’s collaborative projects ask for the impossible
Social sciences funding would be best spent on narrower calls. But would it dry up if we stopped pretending we can save the world, asks Andreas Schedler
www.timeshighereducation.com
October 24, 2025 at 6:50 AM
'The emperor of European research funding is no miser, even when it comes to the social sciences. He is naked, nevertheless.' 1/2
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“Farage nowhere to be seen as Reform loses” 😊
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Caerphilly by-election: Just like that! In Tommy Cooper's birthplace, Farage nowhere to be seen as Reform loses
The joke among Plaid supporters at the count was that long before the declaration Mr Farage was halfway down the M4 on his way back to London, Jon Craig writes.
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October 24, 2025 at 6:38 AM
“Farage nowhere to be seen as Reform loses” 😊
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October 24, 2025 at 6:32 AM