Ally Brown
Research Associate in Social Policy @ Strathclyde Uni.
Food policy for THRIVING Food Futures.
Also policy approaches to health inequalities, and to mental health.
- Reposted by Ally BrownMost of Westminster is still using a website that has been producing and distributing CSAM, maybe a bit of self-reflection is in order.
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- Reposted by Ally BrownHow can the other parties not beat this? I mean, seriously? These people should be shouted down in roars of laughter the minute they say this. Just toxic. www.bigissue.com/news/politic...
- open.substack.com/pub/blanphea... fascinating post about misleading research on genetic heritability
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- Reposted by Ally BrownHumane and sensible step move by Spain in facilitating irregular migrants and asylum seekers to move to work with decent pay, social security and tax payments. Predictably the right is grumbling - unlike the UK, the govt isn’t allowing this to set their policies www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
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- Reposted by Ally BrownLooking for a good listen on the rainy and horrible #commute this morning? Give the first episode of Sick Society a try and learn why the #NHS almost didn't happen, what #GwenythPaltrow has done to health and why politics are a silent killer! #Tuesday #StormChandra #podcasting
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- Reposted by Ally BrownYES THAT'S WHAT MANY OF US HAVE BEEN SAYING FOR YEARS AND THATS WHY WE DON'T USE IT AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
- Amazing sob story: "ChatGPT deleted all the work I hadn't done" www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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- Reposted by Ally BrownThe best way of describing someone who’s all talk and no action that I’ve ever heard in the UK, by far, is “they’re all wardrobe and no Narnia.” * read on for fun ways of saying “all talk and no action” in other languages (a thread)
- Reposted by Ally BrownThere you have it, the Board of Peace is nothing more than a corrupt real estate deal dressed up as diplomacy with the sole purpose of enriching Trump and his favoured cronies.
- Reposted by Ally Brown‘Terrible things are happening outside… Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared. Women return… to find their families gone.’ Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
- Reposted by Ally BrownThis is actually a weirdly boring time to specialize in International Relations because there's no actual intellectual substance to any of this. Like, yeah, man. Shit's fucked. Fucker's nutso. That sort of insight is why I'm a fancy-pants political scientist you should all respect and consult.
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- Reposted by Ally BrownJOB! I'm hiring a postdoc for 2 years on my ERC MaMo project. Looking for someone with strong quant methods, ongoing work close to the project's aims, and a desire to publish in sociology. Start flexible in the next 12 months. Formal call out shortly, but contact me first.
- Reposted by Ally BrownOh, come on ... Being computer illiterate is not an acceptable excuse for filling in your Universal Credit incorrectly or missing your council tax payment. The consequences are severe. Only the wealthly allowed to be a "computer illiterate oddball"? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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- Any food policy that reduces overweight/obesity is going to be "bad for business". That's why they lobby against policy changes to the food system that might benefit everyone. But medical innovations are subject to different regulatory processes. Has anyone read something about this distinction?
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- Reposted by Ally Brown🎉 New Special Issue Published! (Vol. 46, Issue 1, Feb 2026) is out now, titled: “Democratic Innovation beyond the Deliberative Paradigm?” Exploring fresh horizons in democratic theory and practice. @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @sagepub.com @uofgsocsci.bsky.social @oliverescobar.bsky.social
- Reposted by Ally BrownStunning photos from Minneapolis, including this one by John Locher for the Associated Press. www.theatlantic.com/photography/...
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- Reposted by Ally Brownbanning X is a national security issue for every country, plain and simple its explicit goal is to amplify and empower the largest Nazi-adjacent party in every country in which it operates it is also the largest deepfake porn generator in the world this is not a difficult call to make
- Very disappointing that the BBC MoL discussion about life expectancy doesn't at all mention austerity or any other social determinant of health, all about C19 and the NHS e.g. no exploration at all as to what it means that Scotland's best ever mortality still worse than England's worst during C19.
- Reposted by Ally BrownJust like climate change , there are two sides to this but one side is lying and we can just report the truth.
- Reposted by Ally BrownEvery media figure and politician could do exactly this right now. @garygannon signs off from X, the deepfake child sexual abuse material generation app.
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- Reposted by Ally BrownThis is a thread of major media outlets falsely anthropomorphising the "Grok" chatbot program and in doing so, actively and directly removing responsibility and accountability from individual people working at X who created a child pornography generator (Elon Musk, Nikita Bier etc) #1: Reuters
- Reposted by Ally BrownThis has been clear ever since the owner of X started promoting civil unrest in the UK more than a year ago…
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- Reposted by Ally BrownIncredible social science & data use here. The immediate story is about how the opioid epidemic (pushed by pharma in high cancer areas), resulted in major opioid death & economic hardship which - through various media/political channels - resulted in a sustained rise in support for the Republicans
Recently accepted by #QJE, “Republican Support and Economic Hardship: The Enduring Effects of the Opioid Epidemic,” by Arteaga (@caroartc.bsky.social) and Barone (@vickybarone.bsky.social): doi.org/10.1093/qje/...
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- Reposted by Ally BrownThe people who profited most from the cancel culture/free speech panic were less interested in actual freedom of speech than establishing their own control over public discourse. You don't even have to take my word for it. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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- Reposted by Ally BrownThe health inequalities agenda is "tired and risks having run out of road" - not my words, the words of a senior health policymaker in the Scottish Government. But other SG policymakers told me health inequalities were a "huge priority" - so what's going on? A thread... 1/
- I've been concerned recently to see a few blogs associating over-diagnosis & medicalisation critiques of mental health & neurodiversity with the right-wing, and even fascism. This excellent article by @jburnmurdoch.ft.com clearly shows some of the sociological concerns www.ft.com/content/8252...
- It might be a record-breaking super-flu season, bringing the NHS to collapse. But often, a medical lens (the focus on pathology) diverts attention from systematic, social or political failures, such as...
- Reposted by Ally BrownOur first Special Issue is out now! It's on Reproductive Vulnerabilities: A Critical Perspective - Guest editors: Laura Sochas, Kaveri Qureshi, and Philip Kreager journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jc...
- Buying a new toaster, can't believe my eyes. Currys has one for £270 with 440 reviews. Another at £220 with 500+ reviews. Or a few options at £200 with collectively 2000+ reviews. These people need properly taxed, now!
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- Reposted by Ally Brown📉 This morning, the government published its full Child Poverty Strategy, setting out plans to reduce hardship for children growing up in the UK by the end of the parliament. It's a crucial commitment to delivering on one of their central manifesto promises.
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- Reposted by Ally BrownIf a drug was having this societal effect it would be banned within a week. Across the world, politicians are - through their inaction - completely abdicating their responsibilities to civil democratic discourse.
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