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Joel Llewellyn @jbllewellyn.bsky.social · Jun 21

Agree. And you won’t fundamentally move the dial on population health by making things better for the worried, well & wealthy!

Joel Llewellyn @jbllewellyn.bsky.social · Jun 20

They’ve already done ray-bans!

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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · Jun 4

NEW ANALYSIS: UK's solar power surges 42% to a new record, after the sunniest spring on record

* For the first time, solar was >10% of UK generation in consecutive months (April/May 2025)
* In 2025, solar has already avoided gas imports that would've cost £600m

www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-uks...

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Joel Llewellyn @jbllewellyn.bsky.social · Jun 5

With the usual caveats about longer-term trends, data comparability, blah blah, this is incredibly impressive -- a 50% drop in Jamaica's poverty rate in four years. opm.gov.jm/news/jamaica...

Jamaica’s Poverty Rate is at a Historic Low – Office of the Prime Minister

opm.gov.jm

Joel Llewellyn @jbllewellyn.bsky.social · Jun 2

labourlist.org/2025/02/maur...

‘Maurice Glasman rails at progressives – why keep treating him as one of us?’ - LabourList

The last month has seen a return to public prominence of Maurice Glasman – Labour peer, erstwhile guru…

labourlist.org

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Joel Llewellyn @jbllewellyn.bsky.social · May 24

There’s a joint petition, Iain! www.change.org/p/give-fans-...

Sign the Petition

Give fans more tickets for National League final at Wembley

www.change.org

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Joel Llewellyn @jbllewellyn.bsky.social · May 19

Who are those 7% of Lib Dems?!

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · May 15

island of strangers

new reality show for ITV4

12 good-looking Brits are placed on a remote outcrop in Orkney

they must grow the island's economy sufficiently to pay for a proper health service before they get old enough to need it daily

must-watch

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Joel Llewellyn @jbllewellyn.bsky.social · May 13

I just signed a letter telling Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister to give local people more power over their places and futures.

If you have led, supported or been part of a community organisation or group in your area, will you sign the letter too? actionnetwork.org/petitions/co...

Sign the letter for community power

I just signed a letter telling Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner to give local people more power over their places and futures. If you lead or play a prominent role ...

actionnetwork.org

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Joel Llewellyn @jbllewellyn.bsky.social · May 8

thank you brother, as always the real action is on the Alt

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Joel Llewellyn @jbllewellyn.bsky.social · May 8

Got a haircut. And an iron supplement.

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · Apr 30

The Glasmanisation of the Labour Party is a massive risk to them. The Conservatives discovered that if you insult your professional base long enough in a desperate attempt to win populist right votes, they will flock to the Lib Dems and you lose 60 seats. Labour may find similar soon enough.

Chris Dillow @chrisdillow.bsky.social · Apr 30

I had many problems with Blair, but his talk of a modern, open, knowledge-based economy was a breath of fresh air compared to this atavistic, closed-minded economically illiterate shit.

Morgan Jones @morganj0nes.bsky.social · Apr 30

Pendle and Clitheroe's Labour MP Jonathan Hinder on immigration policy:

– ECHR "not good enough" and needs significant change
– Should be fewer universities and doesn't mind some going bust
– "Less and less" integration means people living "parallel lives"

labourlist.org/2025/04/hind...

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Joel Llewellyn @jbllewellyn.bsky.social · Apr 29

Draw your own parallels.

Joel Llewellyn @jbllewellyn.bsky.social · Apr 29

Would give anything for British politicians to stop holding German federalism up as a beacon of growth and regional equality.

Huge numbers of people in the old GDR states just voted for actual fascists because of intense austerity, decaying infrastructure and a brain drain to the big cities.

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Joel Llewellyn @jbllewellyn.bsky.social · Apr 28

Very proud to see this new pilot launching. It's been almost a year since we began work with @nihrsphr.bsky.social to develop this intervention to support young people and now it's live in Manchester, Norwich and Southampton ⚡

It's fundamentally all about tackling health inequalities at the root. 👇

People's Health Trust @peopleshealthtrust.bsky.social · Apr 28

Great pieces by @josephtiman.bsky.social in @express.co.uk and @manchestereveningnews.co.uk covering our new Good Work for Young People's Mental Health priority, featuring our fantastic funded partner 42nd Street's work to support young people in Manchester

www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2047...

'I didn't want to get out of bed' - Young woman's mental health struggle

Georgia Sweeney, 25, from Collyhurst, was just 17 when she started her first job.

www.express.co.uk

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Joel Llewellyn @jbllewellyn.bsky.social · Apr 27

Further fun complications, statistically the NHS plays a more significant (positive) role for those most affected by the building blocks (i.e. in depriv) earlier in life... Then caveating poorer NHS access, outcomes, experiences w/ higher IMD. What that does to percentile ranges is anybody's guess.

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Joel Llewellyn @jbllewellyn.bsky.social · Apr 27

Yes, have heard Bola Owolabi say 20-30% on a few occasions.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · Apr 27

For for the West of England mayoralty More in Common have:

Lab: 23%
Con: 21%
Reform: 18%
Green: 18%
LD: 15%

It is genuinely absurd to have an election with that kind of spread decided by first past the post. Unjustifiable.

Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · Apr 27

UPDATED post:

I've added new mayoral polling from YouGov and More in Common to my comprehensive local elections preview post. And I've also changed a few predictions for councils.

(£/free trial)

open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/l...

Local Elections 2025: The Preview

Tory cataclysm edition

open.substack.com

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Joel Llewellyn @jbllewellyn.bsky.social · Apr 27

Coming up against teams who don't have 15x smaller budgets - an actual test!

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Joel Llewellyn @jbllewellyn.bsky.social · Apr 27

Proud of my cousin not just for running the marathon, but more importantly for managing to overtake Joe Wicks right in front of her family

Joel Llewellyn @jbllewellyn.bsky.social · Apr 26

Big ups to Southend who’ve made it into the playoffs today for the first time all season, after 45 of 46 games.

Joel Llewellyn @jbllewellyn.bsky.social · Apr 25

Amazing work!

Joel Llewellyn @jbllewellyn.bsky.social · Apr 25

Question: who held when Dom turned 18?

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Fabian Society @thefabians.bsky.social · Apr 22

We’re excited to share Social Democracy Now, a new pamphlet by @ewallis.bsky.social. 

As political, economic, and environmental challenges mount, Wallis revisits the communitarian tradition and offers a fresh toolkit for social democrats to shape a more participatory democracy. 🧵 (1/5)

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Joel Llewellyn @jbllewellyn.bsky.social · Apr 18

The flavour profile is “white chocolate and parsley”