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Joel Llewellyn

@jbllewellyn.bsky.social
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All things financial security, inequality public affairs and policy. Connect Four savant and weary Southend fan.

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Joel Llewellyn @jbllewellyn.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Big day for Sir Oink-A-Lot.
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Joel Llewellyn @jbllewellyn.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Agree. And you won’t fundamentally move the dial on population health by making things better for the worried, well & wealthy!
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Joel Llewellyn @jbllewellyn.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
They’ve already done ray-bans!
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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 04/06/2025
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 · 05/06/2025
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...
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Jamaica’s Poverty Rate is at a Historic Low – Office of the Prime Minister
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Joel Llewellyn @jbllewellyn.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
labourlist.org/2025/02/maur...
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‘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…
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Joel Llewellyn @jbllewellyn.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
There’s a joint petition, Iain! www.change.org/p/give-fans-...
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Sign the Petition
Give fans more tickets for National League final at Wembley
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Joel Llewellyn @jbllewellyn.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Who are those 7% of Lib Dems?!
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 15/05/2025
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 · 13/05/2025
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...
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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 ...
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Joel Llewellyn @jbllewellyn.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
thank you brother, as always the real action is on the Alt
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Joel Llewellyn @jbllewellyn.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Got a haircut. And an iron supplement.
Joel’s face imprinted in Guinness foamJoel’s face imprinted in Guinness foam
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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
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.
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Joel Llewellyn @jbllewellyn.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Draw your own parallels.
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Joel Llewellyn @jbllewellyn.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
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 · 28/04/2025
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. 👇
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Joel Llewellyn @jbllewellyn.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
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 · 27/04/2025
Yes, have heard Bola Owolabi say 20-30% on a few occasions.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
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.
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Joel Llewellyn @jbllewellyn.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Coming up against teams who don't have 15x smaller budgets - an actual test!
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Joel Llewellyn @jbllewellyn.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
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
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Joel Llewellyn @jbllewellyn.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Big ups to Southend who’ve made it into the playoffs today for the first time all season, after 45 of 46 games.
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Joel Llewellyn @jbllewellyn.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Amazing work!
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Joel Llewellyn @jbllewellyn.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Question: who held when Dom turned 18?
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Fabian Society @thefabians.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
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 · 18/04/2025
The flavour profile is “white chocolate and parsley”
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Joel Llewellyn @jbllewellyn.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Everything about this is monstrous
Domino’s garlic and herb dip Easter egg
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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
It is very funny that NYT let noted trade columnist Paul Krugman walk like six months ago or whatever because he wanted to produce too much trade content for their taste
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Resolution Foundation @resolutionfoundation.org · 15/04/2025
Despite strong growth in real wages over the last couple of years, the longer-term picture for workers’ pay packets is still pretty bleak. Real weekly pay is only *£27* above what it was on the eve of the 2008 financial crisis.
Chart showing: Real average weekly earnings (regular pay): GB
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The King's Fund @thekingsfund.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Today we have launched our new report, Place-based partnerships: challenges and opportunities. We found that there are three key factors for success in place-based partnerships: 1️⃣ accountability 2️⃣ collaborative leadership 3️⃣ resources Read the report. buff.ly/OrZ3uWO
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Joel Llewellyn @jbllewellyn.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
v beautiful read - a letter from an exile about his return to Syria this year after the fall of Assad, to his wife who was disappeared more than a decade ago
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Joel Llewellyn @jbllewellyn.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
...and bonus points to the Black Dog Institute for having a v cool name.
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Joel Llewellyn @jbllewellyn.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
You can find more info on the LifeSpan trials here: www.blackdoginstitute.org.au/research-cen... Includes this useful explainer diagram setting out the approach. You can see the systems work and the Dahlgren-Whitehead in it immediately.
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Joel Llewellyn @jbllewellyn.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Fascinating study alert ⚡ Evaluation of a population health approach to suicide prevention in New South Wales, one of few programmes in the world to align closely w/ WHO best practice guidance. It's going pretty well! mentalhealth.bmj.com/content/28/1...
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Effect of the LifeSpan suicide prevention model on self-harm and suicide in four communities in New South Wales, Australia: a stepped-wedge, cluster randomised controlled trial
Background There have been few rigorous evaluations of population, multi-strategy, suicide prevention programmes, despite increasing global recognition that such approaches are needed to reduce suicid...
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Joel Llewellyn @jbllewellyn.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
I don't know if anyone else subscribes to Arnold Schwarzenegger's newsletter... but it has some really interesting health studies in on a regular basis. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40014524/ is one of the latest ones.
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Joel Llewellyn @jbllewellyn.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
These deportations become more and more obscene with every added detail.
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Zoë Grünewald @zoegrunewald.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
In the long run, the save the rich strategy is nothing more than bad economics. Me for @theleaduk.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/theleadu...
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I’d like to ask the flighty millionaires: where is your sense of civic duty?
In their rush to defend the rich, the right have revealed a depressing truth – public service is now optional for the elite
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We're Right Here @right-here.org · 18/03/2025
“How can we be part of a solution, whether it’s housing, health, or community centers? Community power allows us to actually be a lead partner in delivering solutions.” Read an interview with @hendricksonclaude.bsky.social, a drumbeater for community-led housing
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"Community power allows us to actually be a lead partner in delivering solutions": Claude's story - We're Right Here
Claude Hendrickson is a community leader for We're Right Here, community land trust ambassador and accredited community-led housing adviser.
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Joel Llewellyn @jbllewellyn.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Putting the moral issue to one side, I really fail to see how driving disabled and unwell people into poverty saves the government money. The financial costs of poverty accrue in homelessness and mental health services, A&E and hospital costs, let alone in lost productivity. And the costs multiply!
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Joel Llewellyn @jbllewellyn.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Real Madrid squeezing through all these knockouts completely undeservedly year after year is astonishing.
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Joel Llewellyn @jbllewellyn.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Great to be at the launch of the final report of the Commission for #HealthierWorkingLives. Lots to absorb and consider — given the scale of ill health and disability in Britain today, this is a seismic national challenge. We’re keen to tackle it @peopleshealthtrust.bsky.social.
Rt Hon Sir Stephen Timms shares remarksPanel discussion
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Gabriel Zucman @gabrielzucman.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Contrary to a widely held view, Mexico, Canada and individual EU countries have leverage America’s Achilles’ heel is its highly internationalized oligarchy: a small group of ultra-wealthy individuals whose fortunes depend on access to global markets.
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People's Health Trust @peopleshealthtrust.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
New @right-here.org research shows strong public support for giving communities the power to shape key local decisions. www.bigissue.com/news/social-...
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Vast majority of Brits feel powerless over local decisions – and it's eroding trust
84% of people feel like they have no power in decisions affecting them in their communities and on a local level, new polling shows.
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 04/03/2025
About that whole "risk-free asset" thing... on.ft.com/41hSg0Q
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Investors dare to imagine a world beyond the dollar
[FREE TO READ] The US could dismantle its own exorbitant privilege by pushing the big bond market beasts into the arms of others
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Joel Llewellyn @jbllewellyn.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
This is really startling.
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Health Equals @healthequals.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Over 70 MPs have joined our Parliamentary Champions Network! 🚨 To drive the change on health we want to see, we've created a powerful alliance of cross-party, local MPs who promise to work together to #MakeHealthEqual. Find out more. ⤵️ healthequals.org.uk/our-champions/
Over 70 MPs have joined our parliamentary champions network, committing to campaign alongside us to make health equal.
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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
time to dig up the @adamkotsko.bsky.social tweet
Adam Kotsko
@adamkotsko
What's your favorite tech innovation?
Illegal cab company O
Illegal hotel chain
Fake money for criminals
Plagiarism machine
76 votes • 23 hours 51 minutes left
12:01 PM • 5/16/23 from Earth • 542 Views
14 Retweets 28 Likes
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16%
17%
32%
35%
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Joel Llewellyn @jbllewellyn.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
To complicate a bit further, i'm fairyly sure some of this stuff was being called AI in dev long before anybody knew who openai were
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Boston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
“Now that Trump has dealt a deathblow to the post-Obama political system, it’s worth taking stock of where the Piketty moment went.” @econmarshall.bsky.social on ten years of Democratic reluctance to declare war on inequality—and what a real “post-neoliberal” agenda would look like:
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A Real Post-Neoliberal Agenda - Boston Review
Bidenomics foundered on ten years of Democratic reluctance to declare war on inequality.
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Joel Llewellyn @jbllewellyn.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Instinctive reaction is 'fool me once...' Are there not greater legal protections we can bring in around utilities to limit dividend payouts when minimum legal and environmental standards aren't being met? www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Water industry promises £22bn of environmental investment, funded by rising bills
The Environment Agency has secured a commitment to carry out 24,000 actions over the next five years
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