Steven Shardlow

Professor Emeritus of Social Work. Interests: research, ethics, comparative welfare, human services workforce, programme evaluation. Views my own.

[Will Hutton @williamnhutton]

UK car industry RIP - killed by Johnson’s absurd hard Brexit. Production has halved since 2016: it will half again by 2030 and be dead by 2035 as EV becomes the norm. Brussels to stick with plan for post-Brexit tariffs on UK EV imports from 2024 via @FT
https://t.co/STWLEIk6yx

[Led By Donkeys @ByDonkeys]

Farage has finally admitted it. "Brexit has failed." Chip in now and let's make sure everybody knows what he said 👇

https://t.co/ffhWctnv6j

[Will Hutton @williamnhutton]

How long before our working class organise marches on Westminster to insist Brexit is reversed? As matters stand our car industry will be extinct by 2035 - and it’s not the only one, Vauxhall-maker says UK needs to change its Brexit deal https://t.co/4o2OQWKlIS

[Will Hutton @williamnhutton]

Once a country makes a mistake of the scale of Brexit which the perpetrators refuse to acknowledge, the cascade of consequences is profound. Everything is polluted. Britain in Crisis: The UK Faces a Steep Climb Out of a Deep Hole - DER SPIEGEL https://t.co/3tyaftGEGG

[jane tunstill @janetunstill]

A compulsory read if you’re a social worker….

I was used as a scapegoat when Baby P died – Sunak’s attacks on social workers are dangerous | Sharon Shoesmith | The Guardian https://t.co/8u7inbFdEp

[Helen Machin @HelenMachin1]

Excited to share a new article, co-authored with @stevenshardlow, about social workers’ constructions of undocumented migrants.

https://t.co/1RRjC0vQUB

[ALASTAIR CAMPBELL @campbellclaret]

So reassuring that a journalist sacked for lying and a Home Secretary guilty of breaking the ministerial code should he leading the government commentary on standards at the BBC

[ALASTAIR CAMPBELL @campbellclaret]

‘Prospering Mightily’ after Brexit ... not. As big a lie as ‘we did everything we possibly could’ on Covid. The two big challenges. Deathly and disastrous failures on both.

[David Lammy @DavidLammy]

All are men.

All are white.

Nearly half (39) went to Eton.

The average age is 71.

They own at least 170,000 acres between them.

The 85 Peers who sit in the House of Lords by birthright are one of the least representative groups in the country.

https://t.co/6vdPu2DueE

[ALASTAIR CAMPBELL @campbellclaret]

Tragic. Utterly self defeating. Madness

[Steven Shardlow @stevenshardlow]

The reality of Brexit: lost jobs, lost opportunities and for what?

[ALASTAIR CAMPBELL @campbellclaret]

Tragic. Utterly self defeating. Madness

[ALASTAIR CAMPBELL @campbellclaret]

Roughly translated, lots of jobs and money shifting to Paris, thanks to Brexit.

[ALASTAIR CAMPBELL @campbellclaret]

The liars and charlatans are so desperate to rescue anything from the Brexit wreckage that they have fabricated a gigantic Trumpian lie about the vaccine being a post Brexit regulatory success story. When they should be thanking worldwide science and European manufacturers

[David Lammy @DavidLammy]

Liar.

The UK is covered by EU law on this until the end of the year - the vaccine was approved on the basis of an existing emergency exception in EU legislation.

There is no need to play petty politics with what we should all celebrate as brilliant news.

[Steven Shardlow @stevenshardlow]

'They don't see themselves as heroes': England's social workers hailed for Covid response https://t.co/bL3wwFUVCv

[Joe Hanley ⏹️ @JoeEHanley]

New article with @McgrathBrookes @HigginsMartyn applying the work of Mark Fisher to Social Work Reform:

"it is the pantomime of reform within these narrow neoliberal circles which ultimately prevents any real, meaningful reform or change occurring"

https://t.co/2qIRpTrt2V

[Martin Lewis @MartinSLewis]

I must admit I'm slightly confused by reducing our alert from 4 to 3.

Beijing's closing areas with 36 new cases a day.

We're opening up when flatlining at 1,000+ cases a day. The R rate's still 0.7 to 0.9. Things aren't increasing, but am I missing data that it's dropping?

[David Spiegelhalter @d_spiegel]

Polite request to PM and others: please stop using my Guardian article to claim we cannot make any international comparisons yet. I refer only to detailed league tables-of course we should now use other countries to try and learn why our numbers are high https://t.co/VQCwoYROK2

[John Crace @JohnJCrace]

We scientists said lock down. But UK politicians refused to listen | Helen Ward https://t.co/I5tknTI5v8

[Patrick Dunleavy @PJDunleavy]

How many NHS staff have died? You just need a clerk to get numbers from hospitals & add it up. It’s not difficult." https://t.co/0WvKZmP0aZ