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Ashwin Kumar

@ashwin-kumar.bsky.social

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Professor of Social Policy, Policy Evaluation Research Unit, @ManMetUni.bsky.social. Economist: incomes, poverty, the labour market, tax/benefit modelling, microsimulation. Photography: space, stillness and form

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Ashwin Kumar @ashwin-kumar.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Sunrise over the Mersey

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Ashwin Kumar @ashwin-kumar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Sunset at the Albert Dock, Liverpool

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Ashwin Kumar @ashwin-kumar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The future is Birkenhead. View over the Mersey from Labour conference

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Ashwin Kumar @ashwin-kumar.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Seriously, any two-bit organisation can do a strategy process. What matters is depth of thinking & willingness to confront difficult trade-offs. These are questions of political leadership not reading blueprints from Mazzucato's 5-year-old book that had literally no effect on the election result

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Ashwin Kumar @ashwin-kumar.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

#TreeOfTheDay, New Ferry, Wirral

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Ashwin Kumar @ashwin-kumar.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Carrying on today's #birdoftheday theme of #standinginwater, here's an Indian snakebird at Keoladeo National Park

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Ashwin Kumar @ashwin-kumar.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

The inactivity rate for people aged 16 to 64 in July 2025 was 21%, lower than at any point before Nov 2018. Since 1971, there has been only one 15-month period – Dec 2018 to Feb 2020 – when inactivity was lower than today.

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Ashwin Kumar @ashwin-kumar.bsky.social · 04/10/2024

I think we can safely stop listening to the whinging from private schools about the terrible effects of VAT on private school fees: pupil numbers down 1.7% in the context of declining numbers of children in that age range does not make a policy apocalypse

Private school pupil numbers down 1.7% on 2023

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