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.
Uncanny
Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
November 24, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Uncanny
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This snippet from an interview with Enver Solomon, outgoing head of the Refugee Council, seems very typical of this govt's approach and speaks to a desire to relentlessly spend tax payer's money in pursuit of a dream of total administrative control
November 24, 2025 at 6:53 AM
This snippet from an interview with Enver Solomon, outgoing head of the Refugee Council, seems very typical of this govt's approach and speaks to a desire to relentlessly spend tax payer's money in pursuit of a dream of total administrative control
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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.