Hannah Rich
@hannahmerich.bsky.social
Director of Christians on the Left, senior researcher at Theos Think Tank. Always mixing religion and politics for a living. Fan of good stories, football, big earrings and oatcakes.
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I've written some pretty heavy policy stuff recently, so it was a real treat to get to indulge in this @theosthinktank.bsky.social piece about female mystics, complicated women and the beauty of Rosalía's new album 'Lux'.
Spirituality and song: What Rosalía’s ‘Lux’ says about sainthood
Hannah Rich unpacks the religious imagery and themes in ‘Lux’ – the new album by Rosalía. 25/11/2025
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November 27, 2025 at 10:06 AM
I've written some pretty heavy policy stuff recently, so it was a real treat to get to indulge in this @theosthinktank.bsky.social piece about female mystics, complicated women and the beauty of Rosalía's new album 'Lux'.
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It's such a bizarre framing. Labour MPs think taking 450k kids out of poverty is putting the country first! That's why they wanted it to happen! It's not because they personally benefit.
Headline on The World at One just now:
"Sir Keir Starmer has denied putting the Labour Party before the country by ending the two-child benefit cap".
Can we please go back to reporting the actual news, not someone's partisan take on it?
"Sir Keir Starmer has denied putting the Labour Party before the country by ending the two-child benefit cap".
Can we please go back to reporting the actual news, not someone's partisan take on it?
November 27, 2025 at 1:16 PM
It's such a bizarre framing. Labour MPs think taking 450k kids out of poverty is putting the country first! That's why they wanted it to happen! It's not because they personally benefit.
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As political scandals go, a grubby backroom deal to, errrr, lift 450,000 children out of poverty is at least a novel one.
Headline on The World at One just now:
"Sir Keir Starmer has denied putting the Labour Party before the country by ending the two-child benefit cap".
Can we please go back to reporting the actual news, not someone's partisan take on it?
"Sir Keir Starmer has denied putting the Labour Party before the country by ending the two-child benefit cap".
Can we please go back to reporting the actual news, not someone's partisan take on it?
November 27, 2025 at 1:30 PM
As political scandals go, a grubby backroom deal to, errrr, lift 450,000 children out of poverty is at least a novel one.
I've written some pretty heavy policy stuff recently, so it was a real treat to get to indulge in this @theosthinktank.bsky.social piece about female mystics, complicated women and the beauty of Rosalía's new album 'Lux'.
Spirituality and song: What Rosalía’s ‘Lux’ says about sainthood
Hannah Rich unpacks the religious imagery and themes in ‘Lux’ – the new album by Rosalía. 25/11/2025
www.theosthinktank.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 10:06 AM
I've written some pretty heavy policy stuff recently, so it was a real treat to get to indulge in this @theosthinktank.bsky.social piece about female mystics, complicated women and the beauty of Rosalía's new album 'Lux'.
Gordon's voice on this has been one of the most influential interventions by any former PM ever. Monumental.
Gordon Brown: The two-child benefit cap was a scar on the country’s soul
By abolishing the cap, Rachel Reeves will lift hundreds of thousands of children out of poverty
By abolishing the cap, Rachel Reeves will lift hundreds of thousands of children out of poverty
The two-child benefit cap was a scar on the country's soul
By abolishing the cap, Rachel Reeves will lift hundreds of thousands of children out of poverty
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November 26, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Gordon's voice on this has been one of the most influential interventions by any former PM ever. Monumental.
It has long been overdue for the tax system to catch up with how much of the gambling industry is online rather than on the high street or at the race course.
November 26, 2025 at 1:41 PM
It has long been overdue for the tax system to catch up with how much of the gambling industry is online rather than on the high street or at the race course.
The removal of the rape clause from the statute book by the first female chancellor is unambiguously good.
November 26, 2025 at 1:32 PM
The removal of the rape clause from the statute book by the first female chancellor is unambiguously good.
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Sorry, no, Motability was not about 'helping the most vulnerable' - it was about providing people who need modified vehicles modified vehicles!
November 26, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Sorry, no, Motability was not about 'helping the most vulnerable' - it was about providing people who need modified vehicles modified vehicles!
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The number of mouths a family had to feed had been connected to the support it received ever since the Elizabethan poor law — until George Osborne’s 2-child limit
Now that broken link is to be fixed
Now that broken link is to be fixed
Scrapping the two-child limit in full is a monumental decision. Well done to all involved in the Child Poverty Strategy, and everyone who has made the case against the policy.
OBR says scrapping costs £3 billion in 2029-30 and will lift 450,000 out of poverty
OBR says scrapping costs £3 billion in 2029-30 and will lift 450,000 out of poverty
November 26, 2025 at 1:09 PM
The number of mouths a family had to feed had been connected to the support it received ever since the Elizabethan poor law — until George Osborne’s 2-child limit
Now that broken link is to be fixed
Now that broken link is to be fixed
Children's charities, faith groups, party activists & others have been unwavering & resolutely brilliant in their opposition to the two child benefit limit. There is far more work to be done to end child poverty, and we don't stop here, but today is a moment for celebration.
November 26, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Children's charities, faith groups, party activists & others have been unwavering & resolutely brilliant in their opposition to the two child benefit limit. There is far more work to be done to end child poverty, and we don't stop here, but today is a moment for celebration.
Investment for playgrounds & school libraries is a real understated triumph of this budget imho. Imagine that lovely sort of bread-and-roses thinking in every area of policy.
November 26, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Investment for playgrounds & school libraries is a real understated triumph of this budget imho. Imagine that lovely sort of bread-and-roses thinking in every area of policy.
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As the Budget looms, Labour have lost the art of making the moral case for policy - but this could change with the two-child benefit limit, writes @chrleft.bsky.social Director Hannah Rich (@hannahmerich.bsky.social).
Read it below:
As the Budget looms, Labour have lost the art of making the moral case for policy - but this could change with the two-child benefit limit, writes @chrleft.bsky.social Director Hannah Rich (@hannahmerich.bsky.social).
Read it below:
November 25, 2025 at 5:51 PM
✍️NEW on the Mainstream blog:
As the Budget looms, Labour have lost the art of making the moral case for policy - but this could change with the two-child benefit limit, writes @chrleft.bsky.social Director Hannah Rich (@hannahmerich.bsky.social).
Read it below:
As the Budget looms, Labour have lost the art of making the moral case for policy - but this could change with the two-child benefit limit, writes @chrleft.bsky.social Director Hannah Rich (@hannahmerich.bsky.social).
Read it below:
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Ahead of tomorrow’s budget, I’ve written for @mainstreamlabour.bsky.social about how we need the moral courage in govt to make decisions like ending the two child benefit limit simply because they’re the right thing to do. www.mainstreamlabour.org/blog/moral-courage-and-the-two-child-benefit-limit
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November 25, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Ahead of tomorrow’s budget, I’ve written for @mainstreamlabour.bsky.social about how we need the moral courage in govt to make decisions like ending the two child benefit limit simply because they’re the right thing to do. www.mainstreamlabour.org/blog/moral-courage-and-the-two-child-benefit-limit
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one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
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This is brilliant from @hannahmerich.bsky.social ahead of the budget writing for @mainstreamlabour.bsky.social on the imperative to scrap the 2 child benefit limit and a call for moral courage at the heart of governing: www.mainstreamlabour.org/blog/moral-c...
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November 25, 2025 at 9:19 PM
This is brilliant from @hannahmerich.bsky.social ahead of the budget writing for @mainstreamlabour.bsky.social on the imperative to scrap the 2 child benefit limit and a call for moral courage at the heart of governing: www.mainstreamlabour.org/blog/moral-c...
Ahead of tomorrow’s budget, I’ve written for @mainstreamlabour.bsky.social about how we need the moral courage in govt to make decisions like ending the two child benefit limit simply because they’re the right thing to do. www.mainstreamlabour.org/blog/moral-courage-and-the-two-child-benefit-limit
www.mainstreamlabour.org
November 25, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Ahead of tomorrow’s budget, I’ve written for @mainstreamlabour.bsky.social about how we need the moral courage in govt to make decisions like ending the two child benefit limit simply because they’re the right thing to do. www.mainstreamlabour.org/blog/moral-courage-and-the-two-child-benefit-limit
I believe in human progress and all that, but I just can’t understand how in the year of our Lord 2025 we haven’t as a species come up with something that tastes less vile than Lemsip.
November 24, 2025 at 2:06 PM
I believe in human progress and all that, but I just can’t understand how in the year of our Lord 2025 we haven’t as a species come up with something that tastes less vile than Lemsip.
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steve smith, you scored 17 on your specialist subject, "getting hit by jofra archer"
November 21, 2025 at 7:52 AM
steve smith, you scored 17 on your specialist subject, "getting hit by jofra archer"
When I said, ‘if Zak Crawley’s still in when I wake up on day 1, we’re gonna win the series,’ I meant ‘still in the field’ actually
November 21, 2025 at 8:10 AM
When I said, ‘if Zak Crawley’s still in when I wake up on day 1, we’re gonna win the series,’ I meant ‘still in the field’ actually
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It’s hard to read this stuff from doctors without cringing at how wildly out of touch it sounds (and how little self-awareness). £100k+ income is, to most of the public, beyond our dreams. Entitlement and class privilege is not the best way to win people over to your cause!
November 20, 2025 at 3:31 PM
It’s hard to read this stuff from doctors without cringing at how wildly out of touch it sounds (and how little self-awareness). £100k+ income is, to most of the public, beyond our dreams. Entitlement and class privilege is not the best way to win people over to your cause!
It has come to my attention that Craig Gordon made his Scottish debut before Ben Gannon-Doak was even born, and I cannot believe the commentators didn't repeat this fact forever last night.
November 19, 2025 at 8:24 PM
It has come to my attention that Craig Gordon made his Scottish debut before Ben Gannon-Doak was even born, and I cannot believe the commentators didn't repeat this fact forever last night.
Some words from me for the week that's in it...
November 19, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Some words from me for the week that's in it...
‘Unadulterated artistry from Kieran Tierney.’ - what a beautiful, beautiful line.
November 18, 2025 at 9:48 PM
‘Unadulterated artistry from Kieran Tierney.’ - what a beautiful, beautiful line.
Quite the day to be at @westminsterabbey.bsky.social to hear the UN High Commissioner for Refugees deliver a tour de force speech on ‘the courage to welcome’.
November 17, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Quite the day to be at @westminsterabbey.bsky.social to hear the UN High Commissioner for Refugees deliver a tour de force speech on ‘the courage to welcome’.