@nickclarkegeo.bsky.social
Geographer, social scientist, student of politics
A graph from the FT showing government spending by age cohort. Over-70s have more spent on them than any other age cohort.
Print and send this chart (from your newsletter on Tuesday) to every household in the country.
09.10.2025 10:13 β π 86 π 19 π¬ 7 π 4My latest on trust for The Big Issue... drawing on various research from our ESRC projects on anti-politics over the last decade.
07.10.2025 12:50 β π 16 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0Our next event, 'Everyday Life and the Crisis Ordinary in Middletown, U.S.A.' is now open for booking! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/everyday-l...
29.09.2025 11:38 β π 3 π 3 π¬ 1 π 1Weβre delighted to publish a new Policy Paper today by Jonathan Moss & @emilyrobinson.bsky.social. They suggest that Mass Observation @massobsarchive.bsky.social - founded in the 1930s - can help us understand the reasons behind contemporary voter apathy. historyandpolicy.org/policy-paper...
24.09.2025 11:05 β π 17 π 17 π¬ 0 π 0Margaret Thatcher's interview with Woman's Own was this day in 1987 - the furore over the quote annoyed her, as she thought she was getting across subtle Hayekian ideas. These cut-through quotes are rare but interesting - we tested Starmer, Gove and Mandelson versions...
23.09.2025 16:11 β π 3 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0The Mass-Observation Critical Series documents and archives the everyday lives, thoughts and attitudes of ordinary Britons.
Found out more https://bit.ly/4lPM60w
My book Understanding Policy Mobility is out this month, for anyone interested in my take on this literature that has emerged over the last 15 odd years www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/und...
15.09.2025 23:27 β π 13 π 3 π¬ 2 π 2The discourse is all around deradicalising young men and the crisis among young men.
The discourse would be much better targeted if it was about deradicalising boomers (and increasingly Gen Xers).
Commentary on asylum hotels considering how govt can develop dignified community-based housing that meets multiple social needs. Warehousing people in camps and continuing a failed experiment in privatisation causes nothing but further harm @geogdurham.bsky.social theconversation.com/after-the-ep...
12.09.2025 12:41 β π 7 π 5 π¬ 0 π 1"public opinion should only be one consideration among many in policymaking and party strategy, and never the prime mover of politics."
@philswatton.bsky.social on the pitfalls of poll-driven politics and the importance of political leadership.
renewal.org.uk/blog/public-...
Across all ages, Reform UK and the Conservatives have increased their combined vote share by 8pts. Among the under 30s, they have only increased 5pts
06.09.2025 20:23 β π 55 π 7 π¬ 2 π 1Britain is now one of very few countries where Gen Z are firmly left-of-centre
06.09.2025 20:13 β π 290 π 73 π¬ 39 π 52White banner with an image of a researcher focused on his work. The words 'BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grants' are written on the right-hand side
The BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grants scheme is now open for applications. This opportunity allows postdoctoral β or equivalent β scholars in the humanities and social sciences to apply for funding to support their research projects. Learn more: https://bit.ly/3K4kEyA
05.09.2025 16:15 β π 12 π 14 π¬ 0 π 1Radical right accommodation really does not work.
New paper out with this exceptionally talented team
@katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk
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IN NEW ISSUE: British attitudes to βEuropeβ have been long characterised as βreluctantβ. @jamesrdennison.bsky.social explores the exception between 1988β1992 - Britainβs Pro-European Moment: buff.ly/3D41PIx (OPEN ACCESS)
@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @uoypolitics.bsky.social #ECRs @sagepub.com
Artists and designers are collaborating with craftspeople to revive dying craft heritage. How are these collaborations shaping the heritage-art-craft ecosystem? My latest paper @scgrg.bsky.social
addresses this question by working on the concepts of distance and aura. Readπ
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Book Launch for Listening to Landscape, King's College 21 Nov 1900. Hauntology/psychogeography/music: free event with music from The Hardy Tree @claypipemusic.bsky.social & Stonecirclesampler with @oldweirdalbion.bsky.social plus Jim Jupp & Oliver Cherer. Grab tickets from Eventbrite, going fast!
01.09.2025 10:39 β π 26 π 8 π¬ 2 π 0At RGS tomorrow? Come along to our session on Urban Politics, Crises and Conjunctures with @colinlorne.bsky.social @markushesse60.bsky.social @derek-ruez.bsky.social
28.08.2025 07:59 β π 4 π 5 π¬ 0 π 0description of RGS conference session mentioned here https://event.ac2025.exordo.com/session/449/authoritarianism-and-the-geographies-of-artificial-intelligence
To those attending the RGS conference this week: interested in authoritarianism and/or AI, do come and join us on Friday for this brilliant set of papers. It will be insightful, bleak, and much more. β¨
organised w/ @sophiamaalsen.bsky.social @casey-lynch.bsky.social
63% of people think net migration rose in the last 12 months
8% of people think it fell
Yet it fell by 400,000 in 2024 vs 2023
[It is falling further in 2025]
Public service broadcasters are doing a core part of their job on this topic badly if that 8% is not closer to 30% at least
Coming soon. The Citizen and the Vagabond. A Politics of Mobility.
19.08.2025 15:26 β π 62 π 15 π¬ 1 π 1Today is my first teaching day of Fall 2025. I'm teaching a grad course on Qualitative Methods, for the first time in almost 10 years.
As several people have asked me to post my syllabus, here it is. Note that it can be, and often is, changed a bit during the semester.
Announcing my book, Techno-Negative!
It will be out in Spring 2026, published with @uminnpress.bsky.social.
Acknowledging, recognising and responding to one another: ordinary hospitality in the cafΓ©. Authors: Eric Laurier & Sylvaine Tuncer. Geoforum, Vol 165
The delicate dance of revealing more or less of who we are for one another, οΏΌas it happens at the cafΓ© counter. Co-authored with Sylvaine Tuncer. #EMCA #geosky
05.08.2025 09:21 β π 29 π 8 π¬ 2 π 0One like, one Presses universitaires de France book cover from the 1990s
04.08.2025 06:40 β π 663 π 156 π¬ 15 π 42One for my physical geography colleagues
04.08.2025 21:21 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0My latest, exploring with numbers how the millennial household budget is basically incomprehensible to retired boomers.
29.07.2025 07:29 β π 435 π 162 π¬ 42 π 70Four women and a man sit at a long table smiling towards the camera.
In this special episode, hosts Dr Emma Peplow and Dr Alex Lock were joined by three guests, including former MPs Anne Milton and Gisela, Baroness Stuart of Edgbaston.
Together they spoke about political and historical interviewing, and the reality of being an MP.
Listen to the episode now!
βοΈ New paper published in Progress in Human Geography βοΈ
'Mobilities I: Crisis' by Cristina Temenos
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... @ctemenos.bsky.social