Luke EmeryHope Catches FireA recent report by the Institute for Fiscal Studies detailed how far a doubling of disability benefit claims has alarmingly been driven by…3 min read·Dec 23, 2022----
Luke EmeryThe Cost-of-Living Payments are a Bait-and-SwitchIn October 2021, the £20 per week uplift to Universal Credit enacted at the beginning of the pandemic was ended. This was the most severe…6 min read·Jun 29, 2022----
Luke EmeryLong GoodnightI was waiting at the docks But you had set sail And I think maybe your heart was with the ocean While I strained to fashion a harbour…3 min read·Apr 17, 2022----
Luke EmeryTackling Transphobia in the WorkplaceWhen starting my new job as a benefits adviser, I resolved to come out as trans — something I had never before felt comfortable enough or…7 min read·Oct 24, 2021----
Luke EmeryThe First Lockdown: A Year OnIt’s been a year since the institution of the first lockdown in Britain, since the pandemic beset and quaked our lives across the world…6 min read·Mar 24, 2021----
Luke EmeryThe Politics of Coming OutYesterday: a spark, a grace, amidst all the adversity and horror of the third lockdown. Abigail of Philosophy Tube’s coming out was such a…5 min read·Jan 31, 2021----
Luke EmeryACORN: A RetrospectiveToday is my last official day as an officer for ACORN Leeds. For the better part of 2 years, the union has been a centre of gravity for my…4 min read·Nov 25, 2020----
Luke EmeryAn Uneasy TwilightSo: Leeds is in local lockdown. There’s a kind of grinding predictability about it: bound up with resignation and disillusionment, a…6 min read·Sep 30, 2020----
Luke EmeryCancel Rent DebtShelter has predicted that 230,000 renters are at risk of ‘COVID evictions’ when the eviction moratorium ends next month. Worse still…6 min read·Jul 31, 2020----
