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@euanse.bsky.social
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Public affairs for Citizens Advice. Passionate about disco, social justice, and butter with sea salt crystals.

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Jordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I accidentally spent £17,700 on 400 subscriptions to the LRB for Home Office staff and now the Life in the UK test is asking applicants to rank Derek Jarman films from most to least emotionally resonant?
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Euan @euanse.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Is the Pandora's Box book a subtle hint about Lib Dem views on social care funding?
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Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
in retrospect, just quite a weird politician www.economist.com/britain/2026...
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Citizens Advice @citizensadvice.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Today we’re launching our #TurnTheTide campaign, calling on the government to take immediate action to tackle rising energy bills, rent, and debt. It’s no longer a one-off ‘crisis’, but an everyday reality for millions of people. Something has to change. ➡️ bit.ly/4eWFL1M
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Euan @euanse.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Is there a single crumb of social policy that this government won’t try and outsource to business?
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
An astronaut, looking at the Earth: “Wait, it’s all social care obligations?” 
Behind them, another astronaut, drawing a gun to shoot them in the back: “Always has been.”
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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
The “Blue Labour” strategy still being promoted by some on Labour right is premised on being able to win social conservatives while holding on to social liberals. Failure state for this strategy is failing to win social cons while alienating social liberals. Here is a map of that failure state:
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Citizens Advice @citizensadvice.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
"Scrapping the two-child limit and addressing high energy bills will prevent hundreds of thousands of children from growing up in poverty and help households across the country keep the lights on." Our CEO responds to today's Autumn Budget ⤵️ bit.ly/4pDEOzb
Text reads: "These commitments mark a vital turning point. We hope the Government continues in this direction, as there's still more to do to ensure every household can live a life free from poverty."
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Dan McCrum @mccrum.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Monumental hubris, every detail is jaw dropping. ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-l...
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End of The Line: how Saudi Arabia’s Neom dream unravelled
Mohammed bin Salman’s utopian city was undone by the laws of physics and finance
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Euan @euanse.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
The equal opportunities version is Fleetwood Mac where they all took it in turns to litigate their breakups with each other on the same record
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Tom MacInnes @tommacinnes.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Proper good news today - the Renters' Rights Act gets Royal Assent. Citizens Advice see 200 people a day with problems in private rented housing. The act shifts the balance towards tenants, but it's just the start, as @tessthompsonca.bsky.social says here wearecitizensadvice.org.uk/the-renters-...
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The Renters’ Rights Act is here — but the work is just beginning
After years of waiting, the Renters’ Rights Act has finally received Royal Assent and passed into law. We’ve campaigned hard for this, and…
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Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
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Euan @euanse.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
Dropping one of these into your all-vinyl east London listening bar set for the ultimate softboi move
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Alex Belsham-Harrris @alexbelsham-harris.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
The challenge of energy affordability is very real, but rising block tariffs aren’t the answer. People on low incomes with poorly insulated homes or who need more energy for health reasons could see rising bills, while those with multiple homes or can install solar panels avoid paying a fair share
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👻 Jack Djinn Wail 🧞 @jacktindale.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Commiserations in advance to the long-suffering girlfriends and partners of every nerdy centre-left man in London who will have to endure being taken around this. www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/lon...
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London is getting a Museum of Brutalist Architecture
A north London school hall is to be restored to its 1960s appearance and become home to the UK’s first Museum of Brutalist Architecture (MoBA) after it secured a National Lottery Heritage Fund grant.
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Euan @euanse.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
The girls are fighting www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Trump sues Wall Street Journal and Rupert Murdoch for libel
Lawsuit filed in Miami federal court comes after president threatened to sue over Jeffrey Epstein letter report
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Euan @euanse.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Britain’s most militant trade union rides again www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Resident doctors’ 29% pay claim is non-negotiable, BMA chair says
Exclusive: Tom Dolphin says rise needed to redress real-terms earnings loss since 2008 and strikes could last years
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Euan @euanse.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Ohhhh boy now *this* is a *rebellion* www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Labour MPs launch major rebellion to stop welfare bill
Amendment intended to kill off legislation that would cut benefits could be backed by up to 100 Labour MPs including senior figures
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Craig Berry @craigpberry.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
The government’s proposals for restricting eligibility for disability and incapacity benefits will cause significant hardship for disabled people Join @citizensadvice.bsky.social on 26 June to hear from a panel of experts and explore our data ⤵️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/citizens-a... #CADataInsights
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Euan @euanse.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
This week the Government published the Bill to enable cuts to disability benefits. If passed, the cuts will push hundreds of thousands of disabled people into poverty. The average person will lose £375 a month - likely more than all their essential bills combined.
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Why we’re asking MPs to vote against the bill to cut disability benefits
Today, the government laid its Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill before parliament. It details plans to cut billions…
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
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Soho Society faces financial ruin after failed legal battle with gin distillery
The Soho Society says it faces financial ruin if ordered to pay nearly £44,000 in legal costs
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Euan @euanse.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Went to visit the UK AIDS memorial quilt this weekend, can’t stop thinking about the grief and love contained in each of those patches. So many lives cut brutally short.
Photo of the Turbine Hall of Tate Morden with commemorative patches from the UK AIDS memorial quilt laid on the floor.
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Tom MacInnes @tommacinnes.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
A blog by @lauralhutch.bsky.social & me, pulling together some of the strands from recent work by our colleagues @craigpberry.bsky.social @julia-rt.bsky.social and @maddyirose.bsky.social. Link here - it’s an 8 minute read apparently wearecitizensadvice.org.uk/short-sighte... (1/6)
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Short sighted policy making: Why does history keep repeating itself?
This government, like many before them, is offering extreme prescriptions before being certain of the diagnosis.
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Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
All pain, no gain: Labour’s odd strategy economist.com/britain/2025...
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All pain, no gain: Labour’s odd strategy
Britain’s governing party spends its political capital for little return
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Euan @euanse.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Honestly, it feels like we’ve done little else for the last fifteen years.
Screenshot of email from the Labour Party with the subject line: “let’s talk about Nigel Farage”
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Maddy Rose @maddyirose.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
The Pathways to Work Green Paper sets out plans to cut billions from health and disability benefits. Instead of getting people into work, these cuts will push hundreds of thousands into poverty. Our new report looks at the impact of cuts to PIP, UC health & scrapping the WCA (🧵)
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Pathways to Poverty: How planned cuts to disability benefits will impact the people we support
Pathways to Poverty: How planned cuts to disability benefits will impact the people we support
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Ari Drennen @aridrennen.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
There's maybe no photo that better defines this ghastly era than these people celebrating the right to deny shelter to homeless trans women in the name of female empowerment.
Screenshot of an Associated Press article titled “UK’s top court says definition of a woman is based on biological sex and excludes transgender people.” The subheadline reads: “The ruling means that a transgender person with a certificate that recognizes them as female should not be considered a woman for equality purposes.” Below the headline is a photo of two smiling women holding hands and raising their arms in apparent celebration. One wears a green cardigan and pants; the other wears a black blazer and floral blouse. The article is by Sylvia Hui, Brian Melley, and Jill Lawless, and was updated at 12:55 PM EDT on April 16, 2025.
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Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
New voter just dropped: Dead Man www.economist.com/britain/2025...
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Britain’s parties cater to a voter who is, often literally, dead
To understand British politics, one must understand Dead Man
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Euan @euanse.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Oh. I thought “Substack now does video” was an April fools…
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Laura Hutchinson 🌸 @lauralhutch.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
The government is inconsistent on living standards. They pledge to end mass reliance on foodbanks and reduce child poverty, and then make plans to cut benefits for many ill and disabled people. @citizensadvice.bsky.social will continue to oppose these cuts www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Benefit cuts will push more people into poverty, warns Citizens Advice boss
Exclusive: Clare Moriarty hits out at Labour’s plan as ‘short-term action’ with ‘long-term consequences’ in rare intervention
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Maddy Rose @maddyirose.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
📣 Citizens Advice joined Scope to urge the Chancellor to reconsider potential cuts to disability benefits. Cuts would have a catastrophic impact on disabled people, pushing even more disabled households into poverty. Read our open letter to the Chancellor ⬇️ www.scope.org.uk/campaigns/op...
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The cost of cuts to disability benefits: Our open letter to the Chancellor | Disability charity Scope UK
Right now, the government is considering changes to disability benefits. But for millions of disabled people, these benefits are a lifeline. They are the difference between surviving and being pushed ...
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Euan @euanse.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Nice little pice in Private Eye as well. The second most closely read publication in Westminster (after Popbitch, ofc).
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Euan @euanse.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
i do have a few questions for the current owner
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Euan @euanse.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Call me old fashioned, but for five hundred and fifty grand, wouldn't you want your bathroom to have... walls? and... a door? themodernhouse.com/sales-list/h...
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For Sale: Hopton Road, London SE18 | The Modern House
This refined one-bedroom maisonette is positioned along one of the broad, light-filled streets that trace the historic contours of the Royal Arsenal in Woolwich. Once the heart of a vast munitions com...
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Euan @euanse.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Power without vanity | I thought this was a truly brilliant, at times moving, article about Merkel and her life www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Christopher Clark · A Degree of Light-Heartedness: Merkel’s Two Lives
Angela Merkel’s low-key, unflappable persona makes it easy to overlook how extraordinary her story is. A life composed...
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Euan @euanse.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Missing billions lives on!
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Euan @euanse.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
You could be forgiven for thinking we at Citizens Advice only talk about those who've done badly from the cost of living crisis So here's a report of ours about some people who've done rather well from it: energy network companies, who have raked in £4bn in excess profits www.ft.com/content/68f8...
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UK energy network owners made billions in excess returns, says watchdog
Citizen’s Advice says ‘policy failure’ by regulator means companies secured a windfall of almost £4bn
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Euan @euanse.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Deleting dating apps to meet a man the old fashioned way (at the Peter Hujar photography exhibition at Raven Row)
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
On the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz I wanted to share this quote from Prime Levi: "Auschwitz is outside of us, but it is all around us, in the air. The plague has died away, but the infection still lingers and it would be foolish to deny it.... (1/3)
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Kieran Hurley @kieranhurley.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
cool how Judith Butler said the gender critical movement is ideologically incapable of offering resistance to the coming fascism and got pilloried for using big words, and now official GC organisations are releasing statements of support for Trump's first acts as returning president
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Tom Clark @tom-clark.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Why do wrong-doing benefit claimants need special rather than general punishments? Why not same for tax dodgers? And when someone has been caught doing cash-in-hand shifts do you really want to make it impossible for them to find a proper job & get off benefits? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Benefit cheats could lose driving licences in anti-fraud drive
A proposed new law will also give ministers greater powers to request bank account information.
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Juliet Phillips @julietphillips.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Nice piece articulating the crazy market power of gas plants demanding prices *40 times* the official estimated running cost. Ofgem must take action to limit excess profits; & in the long run, gas shld be moved outside the wholesale market into a back-up reserve. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Why have Britain’s energy costs soared and what does it mean for Labour?
Claims that power plants are gaming the system to charge huge sums to switch on in the UK’s cold weather
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Jo Michell @jomichell.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
This is the important part.
As we are obliged to mention every time we're obliged to write about the UK economy, Britain is straitjacketed by a particular silly set of fiscal rules that have the practical effect of reifying global market moves into your local hospital getting turned into an elaborate portacabin maze.
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Euan @euanse.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Can’t help but feel smart kitchen appliances peaked in the 1970s with the kettle/alarmclock combo. All backwards from there…
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Euan @euanse.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
These people are paid (how much?) to conclude that what their platform needs is more garbage on it?!
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Euan @euanse.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
Christmas cooking highlights... 1. Cured salmon & horseradish cream 2. A rare outing for my parents fish kettle 3. Cheese plate with obligatory homemade quince membrillo 4. Roast pork for the main event
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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
Really interesting long essay on Netflix & the streamers. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-49/ess...
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Euan @euanse.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Leaving a favourite pub on a bougie Hackney street, spot a new sign saying no more than ten people in the beer garden after 9pm. Why did you buy houses next to a pub then!?
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Euan @euanse.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
The sign of a truly excellent stew - when the sauce has set to a jelly in the pan the next morning
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Euan @euanse.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Cmon guys you’re doing our PR for us here
Telegraph newspaper headline saying “we’re evicting our 90 year old tenant because of Labour”
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