Ally Brown
@allybrown.bsky.social
Research Associate in Social Policy @ Strathclyde Uni.
Food policy for THRIVING Food Futures.
Also policy approaches to health inequalities, and to mental health.
Food policy for THRIVING Food Futures.
Also policy approaches to health inequalities, and to mental health.
Reposted by Ally Brown
An alt measure that looks at lack of access to 14 amenities (a warm house, three meals a day) found 2m children living in “deep material poverty”.
Yet nearly half of them would not have been covered by the official poverty measure!
More in my column
www.thetimes.com/article/fb88...
Yet nearly half of them would not have been covered by the official poverty measure!
More in my column
www.thetimes.com/article/fb88...
February 8, 2026 at 11:44 AM
An alt measure that looks at lack of access to 14 amenities (a warm house, three meals a day) found 2m children living in “deep material poverty”.
Yet nearly half of them would not have been covered by the official poverty measure!
More in my column
www.thetimes.com/article/fb88...
Yet nearly half of them would not have been covered by the official poverty measure!
More in my column
www.thetimes.com/article/fb88...
Any Labour leader will get bad headlines. The right-wing media (not 'the country') will go mad regardless.
And "no-one" voted for Sunak or Truss (their party membership did), that argument was lost.
And "no-one" voted for Sunak or Truss (their party membership did), that argument was lost.
February 8, 2026 at 11:50 AM
Any Labour leader will get bad headlines. The right-wing media (not 'the country') will go mad regardless.
And "no-one" voted for Sunak or Truss (their party membership did), that argument was lost.
And "no-one" voted for Sunak or Truss (their party membership did), that argument was lost.
Reposted by Ally Brown
I do want to shout-out my fellow sociologists, who have collectively created a discipline so woke that not a single one of our introductory textbooks can make it past Florida's censors.
Great work everyone.
Great work everyone.
February 6, 2026 at 3:00 PM
I do want to shout-out my fellow sociologists, who have collectively created a discipline so woke that not a single one of our introductory textbooks can make it past Florida's censors.
Great work everyone.
Great work everyone.
Marina Hyde wrote about this technique of the guilty elite in her latest column. Steve Bannon suggested something similar to Epstein:
February 7, 2026 at 10:31 AM
Marina Hyde wrote about this technique of the guilty elite in her latest column. Steve Bannon suggested something similar to Epstein:
Exactly this. All these misjudgements blamed on the public are created by media and social media privileging bad faith actors and vested interests. We are all social creatures reliant on our media & culture to interpret what goes on around us.
February 6, 2026 at 2:18 PM
Exactly this. All these misjudgements blamed on the public are created by media and social media privileging bad faith actors and vested interests. We are all social creatures reliant on our media & culture to interpret what goes on around us.
The same logic also applies to doping in sport
February 4, 2026 at 12:58 PM
The same logic also applies to doping in sport
Aye I noticed how he phrased that very carefully to avoid explicitly calling for an apology
January 23, 2026 at 5:36 PM
Aye I noticed how he phrased that very carefully to avoid explicitly calling for an apology