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Martin Parr: the photographer’s career in pictures A look back at the career of Martin Parr who has died at the age of 73

www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Join the seminar: Reclaiming Spatial Justice - The Emancipatory Power of Commoning

Stavros Stavrides will discuss role of commoning in just urban futures.

Co-organised by Just City by the Med Research Network & Urban Studies and Social Policy Seminar Series.

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/reclaiming...

Four arrested after crumble and custard thrown at Crown Jewels display The Tower of London was partially closed to the public while the police investigated.

I'd love to see where these jewels came from.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The ridiculously designed and completely awful “FIFA Peace Prize” invented to pathetically suck up to extreme narcissist Donald Trump

This design appears to be commemorating a global zombie apocalypse.

Heartbreaking. The University of Nebraska will terminate its entire Earth science department.

One of the country's most successful and respected geology & climate programs: gone.

When ideologues & politicians are threatened by the very act of studying climate change, I wonder: who of us is next?

YouTube video by Al Jazeera English How Israel is weaponising water in Gaza | People & Power Documentary

This is an extraordinary film - weaponising water in Gaza. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfpx...

Here, kitty…
Porto, Portugal
#Photography #StreetArt #Mural #Porto 📷

I'm at a talk about history of printing. OMG, we live in easy times. Imagine the amount of work to print stuff back in days!

SSAHE RAPID RESPONSE STATEMENT TO “RESTORING ORDER AND CONTROL” We, Social Scientists Against the Hostile Environment, scholars and researchers in many universities and research centres, specialising in studying issues of migration, racism and belonging –…

Statement written a couple of weeks ago by Social Scientists Against the Hostile Environment about Labour’s new migration policies.

ssahe.net/2025/12/05/s...

Farage branded racist over campaign video remark about Glasgow pupils The Reform UK leader said the proportion of children who do not have English as a first language in Glasgow was

This article is like a case study in the media normalisation of the far right.

The bulk of the article analyses stats to ask whether Fash Farage is technically correct, when the real issue is his repulsive racism.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Unlike the debunked “millionaire exodus”, Britain’s young workers really are leaving in droves— 174,000+ since March 2024.

The motor of our economy walking away is a crisis that really should worry us.

🧵So, why are they leaving and how can we stop it? 1/9

Low-emissions, High Tensions: Social Media Groups and the Escalation of Climate Obstruction Backlash against climate policy is rare, but it is growing as policies become more present in everyday life, and resistance is becoming more confrontational. In the UK, this includes property destr...

1/2 Check out Lluis de Nadal's new article on social media's role in the growing backlash against climate action.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Britain’s big experiment with taxing EVs Governments have to offset falling fuel duties without slowing electric car sales

Britain’s big experiment with taxing EVs on.ft.com/4ot6ZQd | opinion

This will be of interest to many in our community - @uofgsociology.bsky.social @ucuglasgow.bsky.social ky.social
@uofgsps.bsky.social - December 10, 15:30-17:00.

Just in case anyone is listening, please note that UK universities cannot operate successfully on the basis of continuous reduction of academic staff and academic staff pay. No amount of staff wellness sessions will change this.

Gary Lineker on Gaza, "It's the worst thing I have seen in my lifetime. Constant images day in, day out of children losing their lives."

"But the minute you raise your voice against it you get accused of being a supporter of Hamas."

First comprehensive investigation shows large support for core ideas of degrowth, but not the label The first major study into public attitudes toward degrowth – the notion that high-income economies should prioritise wellbeing over growing...

First comprehensive investigation shows large support for core ideas of degrowth, but not the label.

Conducted by ICTA-UAB researchers @giorgoskallis.bsky.social & @jasonhickel.bsky.social together with the LSE @lsepoliticsblog.bsky.social

www.uab.cat/web/sala-de-...

The death of the living room: ‘It’s hard to invite people over – not everyone wants to sit on a bed’ The number of rental properties without a lounge is surging, and people are having to eat and socialise in kitchens, bedrooms and stairwells. How can you relax and build community without a communal a...

This highlights some of the obvious implications of densification and living small - no living room/lounge, no room for socialising, the end of the house party etc etc. @nospacelikehome.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

‘Posh-poor divide’: the rise in areas of England where wealth and deprivation appear side by side Data shows increase in neighbourhoods where few metres of asphalt, hedgerow, or wall can separate deep inequality

1/ Like the infamous Cutteslowe Walls in Oxford and a wall built at the Downham Estate in south London, we are seeing barriers going up between council estates and their posh neighbours.
www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...

The 'Manchester Model' in one story...public money subsidising private profit

Renaker borrowed £700+ million from the Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) + its affiliates to build high end skyscapers...

Now it's owner is fleeing with the profits to tax-free Monaco

DGRG A Research Group of the RGS-IBG

Statement from the Digital Geographies Research Group (RGS-IBG)

The Royal Geographical Society’s (RGS-IBG) Digital Geographies Research Group (DGRG) are deeply concerned about the impacts and implications of ongoing crises facing Geography departments in UK Universities. 1/6

The Algorithmic Workplace: How Platformisation Is Reshaping Work in Europe New evidence reveals that data-driven management now shapes how millions work across Europe—with profound implications for autonomy and well-being.

Interesting study about AI and autonomy & well-being at work - I like the different categories of "digital control".

I'd love to see a sectoral breakdown of the data.

The Algorithmic Workplace: How Platformisation Is Reshaping Work in Europe www.socialeurope.eu/the-algorith...

That disbelief of hitting December already!

Rachel Reeves says on Laura Kuenssberg that she's asking working people to pay a little bit more.

This was all under the cover of a made up "black hole" whilst refusing to tax the super rich.

This Labour Government showing again exactly who they are and who they serve.

That sudden urge wanting to make the same mistake 😃

Income tax thresholds: How the chancellor just took a chunk out of your future pay The point at which you start to pay tax, and the point where you tip into paying a higher rate of tax have been frozen for three more years.

I prefer a government raising taxes and being open about it to the one rolling out a stealth income tax on working people while claiming that no tax imposed. Just saying...

www.bbc.com/news/article...

My quick-fire take for @prospectmagazine.co.uk on why we should celebrate the scrapping of the two-child limit

Draws on research for @nuffieldfoundation.org & ongoing work with the amazing @changingrealities.bsky.social

Everyone Hates Elon on Instagram: "To be fair to the Duke, kids in the UK might be starving but it IS important he has security to chase people out of his 11,000 acre estate complete with private chap... 11K likes, 323 comments - everyonehateselon_ on November 24, 2025: "To be fair to the Duke, kids in the UK might be starving but it IS important he has security to chase people out of his 11,000 acre ...

The video that everyone should see before the budget announcement and think little bit on.
www.instagram.com/reel/DRcdg2W...

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