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If there is one chart that damns our fiscal establishment it is this. During a period of historically low interest rates we utterly failed to lock them in when issuing our national debt. Basically zero shift even when rates started rising again...

NEW: Today's DWP data on 23/24 is shocking: ❌Food insecurity up: 7.2m to 7.5m ppl ❌Food bank use up: 2.3m to 2.8m ppl ❌3m disabled ppl facing hunger, 1.2m at food banks Is this really the time to cut disabled ppl's lifelines? We cannot push ppl deeper into hunger and hardship

More private renters are now in poverty than social renters. 4.8 million private renters are in poverty, up almost 300,000 on the previous year. Of these, almost 2 million are only in poverty when we factor in housing costs – around 40% of those in poverty.

25% of Britain is now ‘disabled’. If true, the British state in the last decade has created more disabled people than two world wars did, combined.

And it’s not even a good grad tax: the rich can buy their way out of it by not taking out the loans in the first place. Therefore grads from poorer families end up with a de facto higher rate of income tax than richer ones.

A woman's mental health plunged when her husband was killed at work. His van tax wasn't paid "An oversight due to my world falling apart" She now has a criminal conviction for this It's not right But it's happening #SingleJusticeProcedure Your constituent Anneliese Midgley MP

UK welfare reforms threaten health of the most vulnerable | The BMJ bmj.com/content/388/bm…

Thanks to Professor Stephanie Barclay (Georgetown) for her excellent presentation entitled "Reflections on the USA Constitution and the Role of the Judiciary" yesterday in the ManReg Public Law Seminar Series at the University of Manchester

I spoke to Chris Smyth for this The Times and The Sunday Times piece on the rising numbers of people claiming Personal Independence Payment (PIP) for anxiety & depression (link to the article at the end of this thread) Here are the five key things we need to consider to understand this trend... 🧵

We are kicking off our disability benefits roundtable discussion with our N.Ireland colleagues Joseph Rowntree Foundation, hearing from Iain Porter, Tom Pollard and Edel Harris, on how the Green Paper proposals will impact N.Ireland. Looking forward to discussions this afternoon w stakeholders.

Tax cuts for the rich lead to higher income inequality. However, they do not have any significant effect on economic growth or unemployment. Empirical evidence for advanced economies over 1965-2015:

Ahead of the HC debate on Fri 16 May, I’d like to share this article again👇⁦UoM School of Social Sciences⁩ ⁦UoM Law⁩ Assisted dying, vulnerability, and the potential value of prospective legal authorization | Medical Law Review | Oxford Academic academic.oup.com/medlaw/article…

Manchester is hiring! Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in the Law of Obligations (with a special emphasis on the Law of Torts) (Teaching and Research) jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetail?…

We are hiring again! You'll be joining a team of excellent law scholars. Apply here jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetail?…

We were delighted to host Professor Krisztina Rozsnyai recently in the ManReg Public Law Seminar Series, for a fascinating talk entitled "Saving Hungarian Courts from the European Level: Mission Impossible?"

For the final ManReg Public Law Seminar Series event of the academic year, we welcomed Dr Daniella Lock (KCL) to Manchester, where she delivered a captivating and insightful talk on “UK National Security, Private Actors and the Law”.

Last week, ManReg (socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/manreg/) welcomed Carmen Fernandez, Lecturer and PhD (c) from the Universidad Pablo de Olavide (Seville) and discussed her research on “Deepfake pornography in the Spanish Criminal system: The problem of the legally protected interest”

This shift in Jobcentre culture & priorities would be very welcome, but the positive agenda set out in last year's DWP White Paper is going to be so much harder to realise in the context of the benefit cuts & increased conditionality announced since then theguardian.com/society/2025/m…

Delighted that atiha chaudry & I have received funding for “Unbound Futures’ a Pilot project supporting Pakistani women micro-entrepreneurs in Greater Manchester by raising their awareness of their rights under UK DMCCA. This will be an exciting 12 months! UoM School of Social Sciences UoM Law

ABSOLUTELY ASTONISHING. #oafc