WorldPopProjectJun 4, 2025

📣 Listen to Professor Andy Tatem to find out how WorldPop is changing lives and improving decision making in low- and middle-income countries in #TheWeSociety podcast from ‪@acadsocsciences.bsky.social‬ & #WillHutton

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Richard R LeeJun 16, 2024

Exactly #WillHutton, exactly!

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jun/16/thatcherism-austerity-brexit-liz-truss-goodbye-and-good-riddance-to-all-that?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Thatcherism, austerity, Brexit, Liz Truss... goodbye and good riddance to all that

For 45 years, Britain has been blighted by Conservative ideologies that promised a path to prosperity, but achieved nothing of the sort

The Guardian
CheshireOct 1, 2023
Passing on great wealth to our children spells the end of society. Just ask Aristotle
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/oct/01/passing-on-great-wealth-to-children-spells-end-of-society-will-hutton?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
#WillHutton
Passing on great wealth to our children spells the end of society. Just ask Aristotle

If, as speculated, the PM scraps inheritance tax, the stench of money will just grow stronger

The Guardian
CheshireSep 3, 2023
Chaos in our skies, crumbling concrete in our schools: grim symptoms of a British disease
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/03/chaos-in-skies-crumbling-concrete-in-schools-grim-symptoms-british-disease?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
#WillHutton
Chaos in our skies, crumbling concrete in our schools: grim symptoms of a British disease

A long-term lack of investment has left our infrastructure in pieces. Instead we are prey to dire fallout from events that should be within our control

The Guardian
CheshireAug 13, 2023
Let’s stop kidding ourselves we’re a rich nation and get real… the UK’s gone bust
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/13/uk-stop-kidding-ourselves-rich-nation-gone-bust?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
#WillHutton
Let’s stop kidding ourselves we’re a rich nation and get real… the UK’s gone bust

Britain depends on the kindness of strangers to get by in the world. It doesn’t have to be like this

The Guardian
CheshireJul 2, 2023
Now, water bosses, you must show how capitalism can work for the common good
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/02/now-water-bosses-you-must-show-how-capitalism-must-work-for-the-common-good?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
#WillHutton
Now, water bosses, you must show how capitalism can work for the common good

If there’s a lesson to be learned from the collapse of Thames Water, it is that utility giants have to pioneer a new kind of company

The Guardian
CheshireJun 18, 2023
Millions are facing soaring mortgage rates. How did we leave them so vulnerable?
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/18/millions-are-facing-soaring-mortgage-rates-how-did-we-leave-them-so-vulnerable?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
#WillHutton
#Mortages
Millions are facing soaring mortgage rates. How did we leave them so vulnerable?

Homeowners in Britain are especially at risk because of a shortage of long-term loans. The sooner the Bank of England acts to fix this the better

The Guardian
CheshireApr 23, 2023
Britain has an obesity crisis. We won’t solve it until we start listening to ‘nanny’
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/apr/23/britain-has-obesity-crisis-we-wont-solve-it-until-start-listening-to-nanny?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
#WillHutton
#ConcernsOfThePeople
Britain has an obesity crisis. We won’t solve it until we start listening to ‘nanny’

In failing to regulate the food sector, successive governments have allowed industry giants to flood the market with products that make us ill

The Guardian
David Colquhoun on BlueskyApr 10, 2023
"You may shake your head at the shenanigans in the US, but the Conservative ambition is to go at least as far, if not further in a country with none of the US’s checks and balances. The issue is whether you want that."
By the excellent #WillHutton

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/apr/09/culture-truth-denial-wilting-us-democracy-britain-following-fast?utm_term=6434328d1e850443f300628d2cc91fb8&utm_campaign=BestOfGuardianOpinionUK&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&CMP=opinionuk_email
A culture of truth denial is wilting US democracy and Britain is following fast

GB News is chasing Fox down a path of being economical with the facts, culminating in assertions last week that a liberal elite is running the UK

The Guardian
CheshireMar 12, 2023
It’s taken a brave football star to inject morality into our shaming debate on migrants
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/12/its-taken-brave-football-star-to-inject-morality-into-our-shaming-debate-on-migrants?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
#GaryLineker
#WillHutton
It’s taken a brave football star to inject morality into our shaming debate on migrants

In attacking the new asylum policy, Gary Lineker has left a stricken BBC floundering and shown the Tory right how it is misjudging Britain

The Guardian