What you’re witnessing is a populist assault on the BBC.

This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting.

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“Anyone who thinks this is about a 12-second clip on a Panorama more than a year ago that not a single viewer complained about is not reading the proper story,” said one. “What’s going on here is much more about macro politics.”
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Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design.

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Spoke to the BBC about the drivers of deprivation and the impact on families. There's a clear link between living in hardship & feeling socially/politically disconnected.

To make meaningful progress, communities must be involved in decisions affecting their lives.

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Pressure is building on the gov to take action on child poverty, esp given FT reports that the 2 child limit won't be scrapped in the budget. Investment in social security & binding targets are 100% necessary if the gov is going to have the legacy it wants on child poverty.
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Asylum seekers, housed in hotels in Manchester, are reaching out in their own words to address the concerns of the local community.

Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.

Permanent settlement in the UK helps people put down roots in communities and fulfil their potential. But Reform don’t want that.

Instead, they want to crash the already-struggling economy and tear people’s lives apart by making them "foreigners" forever.

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Our new report on the Household Support Fund, part of the @safety-nets.bsky.social‬ project, is out today. It draws on analysis of HSF admin data and interviews with LAs and @changingrealities.bsky.social‬ participants to identify how the HSF can be improved in a long-term settlement /Thread

Living Assessments was one of the first projects I worked on at NCB and I’ve always been in awe of the academic’s ability to make complex research accessible and their commitment to meaningful engage experts by experience right from the start. Really excited to celebrate the project today 🌟

A podcast that exposes the true horror of housing in the UK that everyone should listen to.

Working with colleagues at the End Child Poverty Coalition, we have developed eight tests to judge the gov's child poverty strategy that will set us down a pathway towards eradication. All the steps are there, we just need the bold action to make it a reality. @ncb.org.uk

More unacceptable news… 1 in 3 children now facing destitution in the UK. The picture can’t get any clearer, the gov’s child poverty strategy must set an ambitious pathway to eradication.
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Maybe Threads is like the non-meteor earth conditions which weakened the dinosaurs so that they would be made extinct by the meteor. Although it's not working as a Twitter replacement. It's cyphoning off enough eyeballs and life and revenue that a BlueSky shock could sink it, or sink it faster.

NEW: "Moving Off X: An Open Letter from UK Journalists"

UK political journalists: "Twitter was, for a long time, the place to be for UK politics. We believe that time is now over...

"We have taken the decision to move over to other platforms, in particular Bluesky" docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Threads or bsky?

Twitter is dead. Long live BlueSky.

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