That’s my birthday.

I want an autumn election so I’ve got time to sort a load of work stuff out; I don’t want a January election cos there’s only so much the country can take.

But a birthday election - that could work.

My face pops up in this vid, but the results Kiri Adams is celebrating here are very much down to her & her excellent team.

I’m very proud of Christians Against Poverty (CAP) UK policy & public affairs team - small, but mighty, and growing!

Is it just me, or is coaching ChatGPT quite a lot like parenting?

'no - that's not what I asked you to do, is it? try again'

'you didn't have this difficulty before - i don't understand why you can't just do it now'

'you do actually know how to do this'.

It's confidential, allowing space for honesty free to use and takes less than 10 minutes, take a look and see 💚
📲 capuk.org/calculator

Looks good.

CAP's latest polling shows 24% of UK adults (12.7 million people) have lost sleep worrying about their finances at least monthly. This is the reality of the UK and we can & must bring it to an end. Check out capuk.org/polling for more stats.

Wow - the first target already hit for Stef Benstead 's second book, 'Just Worship'.

I can't wait to read it - knowing how Stef knows poverty, Jesus and the scriptures, it's going to be a vital addition to the corpus of 'faith and poverty' writings.

crowdfunder.co.uk/p/justworship

The Father turns His face away

This is going to be excellent. I’m buying a bunch of copies - join in.

Stef Benstead is an excellent communicator, thorough researcher, and expert in issues of poverty and different Christian approaches to the issue.

You’ll be doing yourself a favour buying a couple of copies.

Policy failure of the week goes to Maddy Rose - like many of the worst benefits system interactions, nobody really intended it. It's just what happens when you have a complex system with so many moving parts that isn't designed with the claimant in mind.

Love love love this.

Congratulations to Juliette Flach - our policy & public affairs team is stronger for her time in it, and has grown with her.

Kiri Adams leads that work (really well!) and is recruiting - see Juliette’s thread for details of the role and what she has to say about doing that work.

Also “I’m sure you’ve increased your funding of free debt advice by a proportionate amount”.

Poverty 👏 is 👏 not 👏 a 👏 crime 👏

Love me some history where Christians acted on their faith to fundamentally change society, challenging inherent injustice & inequality & showing another way to live.

Reducing inequalities must be at the heart of ALL government policy. This means assessing the impact of each decision on equity. Inequality is bad for all. Communities with greater inequality have lower levels of social cohesion & poorer child wellbeing theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/a…