If we're reawakening that post, I'd add to it that the list was conspicuous by the absence of some professors' names, too. I cannot imagine why one of the most foremost names in the area of child poverty, the main subject of the letter, was missing. Was David Piachaud not invited because he was one of the few, if only, experts to have the courage to criticise some aspects of Townsend's work on defining poverty, or did he just not wish to sign the round-robin?
Oh, and for those who missed the riposte to that letter (which although published on the online 'Torygraph' website, was but a blog by Toby Young -- Michael's son) it's at: http://tinyurl.com/cd777zn .
Paul Ashton
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But then you avoided being smeared by the Torygraph as a member of the Labour Party! You win some, you lose some...
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Re Professor Rummery's message
I was delighted to read the letter too and have acted upon Kirstein's suggestion. Yet it is a great pity that those of us who do not have the title 'Professor' should not have been invited to sign this letter too.
Are we not 'experts' or expert enough ?
Dr Tony Maltby
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> Some of you may have seen a letter in today's Guardian from over 50 social policy professors highlighting the dangers of welfare cuts. Thanks to Alan and Carol Walker for organising this. For those of you who tweet/facebook/ use social media, it would be wonderful if you could spread this as far as you can. It may make not a blind bit of difference, but we all felt strongly that it needed to be *said*, and that social policy as a discipline should be providing the evidence to back it up.
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> And a magnificent response to it in their second favourite newspaper: http://tinyurl.com/cd777zn "For those of you who tweet/facebook/ use social media, it would be wonderful if you could spread this as far as you can."
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> Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2013 18:37:01 +0000
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