Extremely powerful case study highlighted by Polly Toynbee here

You may have seen the recent fury over Motability Foundation: how ‘sickfluencers’ are helping ‘bedwetting boy racers’ get ‘50-grand Mercs’ for free. This is basically a myth, and its laundering into the mainstream is an object lesson in How Things Work Now. Thread follows.

This one is worth listening to twice

Since leaving Parliament@JonCruddas_1 has found himself thinking—and worrying—more about rising religious sectarianism, writes Tom Clark prospectmagazine.co.uk/views/people/6…

This story says: “There will also be a small reduction in the basic rate of UC in 2029” Stretch to see this as “in keeping with the green paper” since a plank of that was a small rise in basic UC in 2029: suppose that could have become a very small rise

One small positive thing worth putting on record —detailed briefing to the Times & other made it look like HMG was backsliding on its very small but welcome boost to basic Universal Credit Documents today suggest it’s going ahead

Thread encouraging hopes that there is more bite to the “anti-avoidance” gains scored by The Treasury than in the average year

🚨 New analysis published! 🚨 Unsung Britain has borne the brunt of the Spring Statement. The Resolution Foundation's overnight analysis reveals that lower-income households are set to become £500 a year poorer over the Parliament 👉 buff.ly/ya86I2u

A record 4.5 million children now officially in poverty For more detail click here bsky.app/profile/tom-cl…

Poverty: You Cannot Be Serious New col on today's figures, and yesterday's brutal cuts prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/69611…

Two teenagers who lost their mothers found each other—and changed music forever. Tom Clark reviews Ian Leslie’s brilliant exploration of the Lennon-McCartney partnership and the darkness behind their sunshine. prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/69626/…

Trump's VAT fixation is one very revealing detail of the trade storm he is unleashing You don't need an economist, but a psychoanalyst to make sense of what's going on prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/economic…

To grasp the threat Trump is posing to global trade, you don’t need an economist, you need a psychoanalyst, writes Tom Clark. prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/economic…

Now published on VoxEU Newly available data from Britain’s tax authorities shows that pay volatility is the norm for British workers. Read the latest from @mikebrewereconl, Tom Clark, @nyecominetti, Stephen P. Jenkins (@stephenpjenkin1.bsky.social) ⬇️ buff.ly/wTuhL2t

"Project 2029" -- a (terrifyingly easy) 10-part plan for an aspiring British authoritarian to capture the British state prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/69836…

Pleased to be part of Gordon Brown’s timely collection on child poverty — out tonight I think

For Gordon Brown’s guest-edited edition of @newstatesman I had a go at explaining the umbilical connection between ill-health & poverty -- and why it's not good trying to "put health first" without addressing hardship newstatesman.com/spotlight/pove…

In a lot of the Westminster reporting, poverty and health are treated as different, maybe even rival concerns. The truth is that they're umbilically joined. 🖊️ Tom Clark for Spotlight newstatesman.com/spotlight/pove…