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David Gadd @profdavidgadd.bsky.social · 20d

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In 2024 only 13 out 19125 NRM applications were deemed to have been made in bad faith. It's disgraceful that UK Labour are continuing the Conservatives false narrative on pervasive abuse of modern slavery protections.

Shabana Mahmood accuses asylum seekers of making ‘vexatious, last-minute claims’

Home Office says it will review modern slavery laws to save PM’s ‘one in, one out’ returns deal with France

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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 21d

In London, hate will never win.

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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 25d

The reporting on Charlie Kirk’s killer in the UK & US highlights again how fundamentally ill equipped mainstream media is to report on political violence in the digital age.

They do not know anything about online far right meme culture & it’s starting to do real harm. #r4today

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 28d

"Who do they think they are?!"

A furious @andyburnham.bsky.social on the news that a Reform UK government would scrap plans to build Northern Powerhouse Rail.

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David Gadd @profdavidgadd.bsky.social · Aug 25

An excellent read for academics wondering what not to prioritise after the 'break'

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · Aug 13

With UK news shows reporting more than 50,000 small boat migrants have crossed the English Channel since Labour came to power now would be a good time to remind Nigel Farage & others that Brexit has been a primary factor in the sky rocketing number of small boat crossings

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Imagine the shock when he finds out Brexit is a primary factor in sky rocketing small boat crossings

YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic

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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · Aug 4

I prosecute and defend the most serious sexual offences in our courts.

The overwhelming majority of offenders are British-born. Overwhelmingly the victim is someone known to them, either a partner or relative.

Anybody purporting to care about protecting women might start there.

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David Gadd @profdavidgadd.bsky.social · Jul 28

Source: Times Higher Education
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Makes some insightful points about incremental learning and the difference between student need and student choice that have become lost in an over marketised system

Has student-centred teaching gone too far?

Marketisation and the pandemic pushed student preferences to the top of every university’s teaching and learning agenda. But should those preferences be acted on even if they risk undermining educatio...

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David Gadd @profdavidgadd.bsky.social · Jul 21

Well put and really means the question needs to be, not is neuro diversity over diagnosed, but how do we design organisational structures that embrace and build on such diversity

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Why the antagonism over the rise in autism diagnoses? It’s actually good news | Gina Rippon

A ninefold increase is the result of huge advances in our understanding – and brings the hope of fulfilling lives to many more people, says author Gina Rippon

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David Gadd @profdavidgadd.bsky.social · Jul 20

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Spot on. Come on Labour. Don't reproduce the shortcomings of your predecessors

Influential women urge Labour to include asylum seekers in plan to tackle violence

Exclusive: Letter warns of ‘two-tier’ system if asylum seekers are excluded from promise to halve violence against women and girls

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David Gadd @profdavidgadd.bsky.social · Jul 18

Causing concern and confusion among fans of The Hanmaid's Tale ;-)
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Ofwat to be abolished as ministers look to create new water regulator

Move follows intense criticism of utilities over sewage spills, shareholder payouts and ballooning debts

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Stephen Farrall @stephenfarrall.bsky.social · Jul 9

Come and work with Emily Gray, Maria Grasso and I on our @leverhulmetrust.bsky.social funded project on #NewLabour and their social and economic policies.

#criminology #AcademicSky #polsci #politicalsociology #sociology #longitudinalresearch

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Job Vacancy at the University of Nottingham: Research Fellow (Multiple positions, fixed term)

We are now recruiting 2 full time Research Fellows to work with Stephen Farrall and colleagues at Warwick (Emily Gray) and Queen Mary College, University of London (Maria Grasso) on their research int...

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David Gadd @profdavidgadd.bsky.social · Jun 27

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...

Exceptional interview. Revelatory

BBC World Service - The Documentary Podcast, Praise You: A forgotten love letter to black men

The secret civil rights history of DJ Fatboy Slim’s dance anthem Praise You

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David Gadd @profdavidgadd.bsky.social · Jun 27

afterexploitation.com/2025/06/26/j...

Joint letter to Yvette Cooper: Child sexual exploitation (CSE) must not be stereotyped

27th June 2025 – Following Baroness Casey’s audit on group-based child sexual exploitation (CSE) and abuse (CSA), we have grown concerned by the lack of recognition for CSE support, com…

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David Gadd @profdavidgadd.bsky.social · Jun 22

Presumably the same for Meta AI

Sarah Cooper @sarahcpr.bsky.social · Jun 22

The #1 most frequently asked question about Copilot in Microsoft Word or Gemini in Google Docs is how do you turn it off.

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Sarah Cooper @sarahcpr.bsky.social · Jun 22

The #1 most frequently asked question about Copilot in Microsoft Word or Gemini in Google Docs is how do you turn it off.

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David Gadd @profdavidgadd.bsky.social · Jun 16

One really tricky issue with ethnicity data relating to suspects - as opposed to defendants -is that it's based on child victims' perceptions of someone they may not know very well or even at all. That lends itself to a crude 4-fold typology, rooted in British colonialism and remade in police data

Channel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · Jun 16

Grooming gangs ethnicity data ‘utterly woeful’, says safeguarding minister

www.channel4.com/news/groomin...

Grooming gangs ethnicity data ‘utterly woeful’, says safeguarding minister

We spoke to the minister for safeguarding Jess Phillips.

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David Gadd @profdavidgadd.bsky.social · Jun 7

A wedding of Game of Thrones fans?

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Criminology University of Manchester @criminologyuom.bsky.social · Jun 4

🗣️Understanding and rehumanising the harms of hate - powerful reflections from Professor @NeilChakraborti in today’s talk on how we discuss and address hate in society.

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LBC @lbc.co.uk · May 23

"One of the single worst examples of journalism I've ever seen in a British newspaper."

@mrjamesob.bsky.social can't believe what he's reading.

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David Gadd @profdavidgadd.bsky.social · May 5

If you see Sir Keir, tell him

Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · May 4

I had a productive call with Ursula von der Leyen this morning. We’re ready to build on our free trade relationship, bolster economic security, and work side-by-side on shared defence and security challenges.

When Canada and the European Union build together, our futures are stronger.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · May 4

WELKER: Your secretary of state says everyone who's here, citizens and non-citizens, deserve due process. Do you agree?

TRUMP: I don't know. I'm not a lawyer. I don't know.

WELKER: Don't you need to uphold the Constitution?

TRUMP: I don't know

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David Gadd @profdavidgadd.bsky.social · Apr 24

Nicely put, Kate and instructive also on gaps and silences that are currently dampening the UK government's chances of having Violence Against Women and Girls with 4.2 years.

Kate Fitz-Gibbon @katefitzgibbon.bsky.social · Apr 24

With a week to go before the election, both major parties have now released their plans to address domestic, family & sexual violence.

Hayley Boxa & I examine both announcements & ask do they truly reflect the scale of the national crisis we are facing?

👉🏼 theconversation.com/the-major-pa...

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David Gadd @profdavidgadd.bsky.social · Apr 24

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

If the UK really were leading the world in combatting modern slavery, it would be reconsidering hosting the brands listed here -Starbucks, Nestlé, Jacobs Douwe Egberts, Dunkin’, Illy and McDonald’s - and advising the public against buying from them.

‘Morally repugnant’: Brazilian workers sue coffee supplier to Starbucks over ‘slavery-like conditions’

Brazil has been the world’s leading coffee producer due to the forced labour of enslaved Africans and Afro-Brazilians

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David Gadd @profdavidgadd.bsky.social · Apr 13

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