Rod Hick
@RodHick
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Professor of Social Policy @CardiffUni | Dubliner | poverty, housing, social security, work
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Joined May 2009
Now available Open Access: The Cost-of-Living Crisis in the UK and Ireland: on Inflation, Indexation, and One-Off Policy Responses, with @MLGCollins
https://t.co/ZwTGS738UQ
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The Cost-of-Living Crisis in the UK and Ireland: on Inflation, Indexation, and One-Off Policy Responses - Volume 23 Issue 1
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Reeves is goosed if she announces this (and much else, I guess).
🚨 NEW: Rachel Reeves will use the Budget to impose a £2k-a-year limit on how much salary can go into a pension before paying National Insurance The move will raise £2bn and hit salary sacrifice schemes [@thetimes]
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An unexpected haul from a secondhand bookshop in Vigo, Spain. The owner said there were about 100 books in the collection that had been donated, most not yet on display. What a find.
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The photos don't it just justice at all, but La Campana was the pick of the bunch in A Coruña for me.
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A few enjoyable days in Northern Spain, amongst other things hunting down bar recommendations from @dublin_damo
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<cue Beverly Hills Cop soundtrack> 🎵 🎶 The heave is on 🎵🎶
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Just 5 days ago, Keir Starmer welcomed Isaac Herzog into 10 Downing Street. Today, a UN Commission has found that: “Israeli President Isaac Herzog, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and then Defence Minister Yoav Gallant, have incited the commission of genocide.” Genocide.
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In explaining Mandelson’s departure as ambassador govt says when it appointed him it didn’t know the extent of his relationship with Epstein. But we reported on it back in 2019 (see below). Only cursory due diligence was required…The decision to appoint him was a matter of
At the time we aired this we got an enormous amount of legal pushback…Now we see the full extent of Epstein’s friendship with the man he called “Petey” @TomPorterC4
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🚨BREAKING -- We asked Israeli president Isaac Herzog if he is a war criminal as he walked along Downing Street for a meeting with UK prime minister Keir Starmer.
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And so tomorrow the President of Israel, that 'ceremonial figure' whose statements were cited in support of the ICJ conclusion that it is plausible that genocide is being perpetrated, will be welcomed. Shameful.
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Reported here and elsewhere that the UK has concluded Israel is not committing genocide in Gaza. This isn't what the letter says. It says the UK gov has not concluded that Israel is committing genocide. It's just sitting on its hands.
🚨 NEW: The Government has concluded Israel is not committing genocide in Gaza
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I don't ever remember it so well-lit and so obviously open. Fun times.
Manhattan… the greasy spoon cafe at Kelly’s Corner that only opened after midnight, feeding Dublin’s nightlife. It closed around 2009. Anyone have memories of this place?
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Absolutely insane. The only circumstance in which Keir Starmer, or members of his govt, should be meeting the President of Israel in the UK at this moment is if in his entourage he brings Netanyahu and Gallant so that they may be handed to the ICC.
BREAKING: Israeli President Isaac Herzog to visit the UK next week. https://t.co/TC2ROCL7wW 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube
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Annihilation for annihilation's sake, Israeli-style
Zaitoun, Gaza City | Israeli troops blow up Fourqan Elementary school along with other homes in Zaitoun Neighborhood
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Hard to believe we've had hours of this ludicrous death rumour just because trump hadn't shown up at a golf course yet.
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This is what happens when a government has total impunity to commit war crimes again and again and again and again and again.....
Graphic footage from the Israeli attack on Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza's Khan Younis shows a strike hitting rescue workers following an initial strike. The IDF has not yet commented. According to Palestinian media, at least 14 were killed in the strikes, including three
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The Israelis bombed a hospital - again - then they bombed those emergency responders who went to rescue the injured. Dear Prime Ministers and Presidents, how much more documented and live-streamed evidence of genocide do you need to witness before you will act? 📹 @AlGhadTV
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