Danny Dorling

Westminster needs to follow Scotland in tackling child poverty | British Politics and Policy at LSE The annual figures released show that child poverty is rising in England. In fact, the only place across the UK where child poverty has fallen in the last decade is Scotland. Danny Dorling argues that...

If anyone knows, it's probably @dannydorling.bsky.social - don't know if it's too early yet to show up on the graphs... blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...

‘Empathy that lasts a lifetime’: charity bridges gap between Bradford schools Pupils from schools with differing demographics meet and play under charity scheme set up after city’s 2001 riots

📢 A nice story for a change 🔽. This is how you defeat the far-right. The govt should ensure schemes like this spread across the country. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

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Former Dulwich pupil says Farage told him: ‘That’s the way back to Africa’ Exclusive: Yinka Bankole says he was compelled to speak out after Reform leader’s attempts to dismiss hurt of alleged targets

🚨 .... he would always remember what he described as a “look of hatred he had for me, seemingly simply for existing” ... Without knowing my name, but just looking at me with what appeared to be no appreciation of my humanity and simply because of how I looked.” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Messy, combative and intoxicatingly fierce – don’t write off Your Party just yet | Andy Beckett Spending time with its activists, I’ve seen signs of a refreshing challenge to stale mainstream politics, says Guardian columnist Andy Beckett

📢 For a bit of balance, a positive report on Your Party...🔽 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

How effective will government policies announced this week be in lifting British children out of poverty? Read 'Seven Children' by @dannydorling.bsky.social to consider the depths of inequality. Just named a 'book of the year' by @foreignaffairs.com & 50% off right now:

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Same on radio 4. I now view the hourly bulletins as joke news, turn it down and smdh about how insidious it all is. Like we aren't supposed to notice how downgraded bbc news content has become. Fiona Bruce popped up in a trailer the other day and I skipped faster than the speed of light.

I know I rant about this all the time but the rabid - and omnipresence - anti immigrant line on BBC 6 music news is so jarring

Feels like a text book example of how an Overton window is shifted

Next Thursday come join us for a talk from @andrewseaton.bsky.social about his new research on coal! Comment from @dannydorling.bsky.social .

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Has Rachel Reeves made the right calls in this budget? Our panel responds | Polly Toynbee and others After a tumultuous run-up to a make-or-break moment for the government, has the chancellor struck the right balance?

📢 Tend to agree that the rich weren't hit nearly hard enough in the Budget but the lifting of the 2-child benefit cap is a welcome, moral, and long overdue step in the right direction... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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I think your summary is not bad. A free PDF copy of the book can be downloaded from here: www.dannydorling.org/books/better...

I think your summary is not bad. A free PDF copy of the book can be downloaded from here: www.dannydorling.org/books/better...

Just started reading "A Better Politics: How Government Can Make Us Happier" by @dannydorling.bsky.social www.radstats.org.uk/books/ABette... Looking forward to chapter 2. I'd summarised chapter 1 as "let's run government by listening to people about their happiness" and perhaps "most people ...

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🤔 Don't really see the rise of Reform and the decline of the Tories as two separate developments. Perhaps a better description is that Reform has been incubating within the Tories for decades - only now it's burst through their chest like the Alien did to John Hurt killing its host along the way...

‘Chaotic and indecisive’: key findings of report on UK’s Covid response under Tories Second pandemic report focuses on decision-making, organisation and messaging by senior politicians including Boris Johnson

🚨 Feel like Labour should be all over this and making the most of it while their own fortunes and levels of competence are in the bin. Guess the reason they're not is because the Tories have ceased to matter any more... 🤔 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

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‘I thought the grownups were back in charge!’: John Crace on how Labour shattered his expectations After 14 years of Tory rule, the Guardian’s parliamentary sketch writer thought he had seen it all. Westminster would surely tick along nicely once Keir Starmer’s party took over. How wrong he was ...

📢 THIS 🔽
"Mostly, though, you couldn’t escape the feeling that Starmer just wasn’t very good at politics. That No 10 had no control of the news grid and were waking up each morning just as surprised as we were that the country was falling apart." www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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A photo of publicans marching against breath tests

Someone just shared this with me: 1967, 3,000 publicans marching against introducing breath tests for drivers.

Barbara Castle MP got this introduced and speed limits and seatbelts as mInister for transport, and faced the standard opposition.

A major protest has been held outside the offices of Grand Theft Auto developers Rockstar Games in Edinburgh, after more than 30 staff were allegedly sacked for trade union activity.

Yet Another Way Republicans Are Making Life More Expensive Trump ran on bringing down inflation. Instead, as climate change relentlessly drives up food prices, his administration is hell-bent on ignoring the problem.

Yet Another Way Republicans Are Making Life More Expensive
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Image of large model railway setup in old mill building

Another installment in the surprising reach of the 1951 Festival of Britain: the scale model of the Midland Railway completed for the Festival in the then Derby Borough Museum. Now located in the Silk Mill Museum of Making.

Too many want to do Britain down – Labour will defy the doomsayers and beat the forecasts | Rachel Reeves I don’t pretend the choices will be easy, but my budget has one focus: to invest in building a better future for everyone, says UK chancellor Rachel Reeves

🤔 Do too many really want "to do Britain down" or are people just making observations of what is happening (or not happening) and what they see all around them on a daily basis...? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Vote swings image. 2024-2025

"Imagine the changes that occur between 2024 and 2025 happening again and again in the three years to come. Those years cannot be as volatile again with as much movement, as that is almost impossible. However, they do not need to be as volatile to be devastating."

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