Please share widely - the second year of the Martha Mills Young Writers’ Prize. We’re thrilled to have the wonderful Philip Pullman as a judge - Martha was such a fan of his books

Extraordinary mismatch between the Gove line on manifesto-pledged end of no-fault evictions — “we need to go steadily because of the Lords”…

… And this week’s late-night ping-pong to force the Lords to back down on the (non-manifesto) Rwanda scheme

Today’s poverty crisis is doubly Dickensian, writes Tom Clark —appalling not just in the scale of penury but in the failure of the rich to do anything about it.

prospectmagazine.co.uk/society/povert…

If anyone in govt, media or politics wants a fitting memorial to Frank Field, then it should be the abolition of the two-child limit.

His last report (as Chair of Work and Pensions) is here.

'No government should accept it.'

committees.parliament.uk/committee/164/…

This is sad news. Frank was such a huge, fascinating, complex character. You didn’t have to always agree with him to enjoy working with him, and to be full of admiration for his passion, energy, humour, commitment and expertise. A true giant in his field.

So, Nigel Farage - one of the founders & owners of Reform UK - can present an “impartial” programme on a TV “news” channel during the general election according to the broadcasting regulator @ofcom. The leader of the party Richard Tice 🇬🇧 & its only MP Lee Anderson MP can

Quite a moment: rental reform loses the voice of the renters

A youthful run-in with Attlee, & a wonderful piece drawing on long memories and independent judgements sceptically reassessing his role newstatesman.com/culture/2016/0…

Underlines what we’ve lost with David Marquand

With thanks to Richard Johnson for promoting me to look it up

An inspiring mind & wonderful man

As a Guardian leader writer I loved talking to David as someone who’d held the pen on Manchester Guardian leaders so many moons before

And wonderful books, which really “got” & explained thinkers like Hayek from the opposite tradition

On whether the Empire & slave trade paved the way for Britain's industrial take-off, I learnt a lot from this book by Pat Hudson (Professor) & Maxine Burg

prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/books/…

If you’re interested in left-field social policy solutions do have a leaf through our series of short pieces here: lateral thinking on how community businesses, ownership & activism can turn neighbourhoods round

A great briefing

Chilling ignorance of the benefits he is cutting from our PM—arguing today in Sun that 2-child limit needed for fairness to workers

The reality, as reported by Resolution Foundation here, is nearly 60% of families affected are earning resolutionfoundation.org/publications/c…

thesun.co.uk/news/27445505/…

On the contrary, as Sir Michael Marmot and I outlined in Prospect

“Britain is objectively sicker than it was a decade ago: people are dying earlier…more babies are dying in their first year of life than three years ago”

prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/polic…

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Much good sense here

From Gaza to Iran, the Netanyahu Government Is Endangering Israel's Survival haaretz.com/israel-news/20…