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Max is from Wiltshire and is half Basque. He graduated in 2025 with a degree in English from the University of Oxford. With personal interests in literature, games and film, he has edited social media clips for West England Bylines. His journalistic interests include class, gender and the internet.

Michael Rosen image by Historyworks. Creative Commons 2.0 Freedom Pass image by Greater London Authority. Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike 3.0

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Michael Rosen’s tweet war: is austerity really welfare’s fault?

by Max Wild Urquidi

19 December 2025

A row over a free bus pass exposes how 14 years of austerity have warped public trust in universal welfare...

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Max Wild Urquidi

Michael Rosen’s tweet war: is austerity really welfare’s fault?

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