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@cser.bsky.social Good to read @dpcarrington.bsky.social write up of Luke Kemp’s work on inequality & societal collapse. Yet as @marcosgh1.bsky.social & I argue, high earners (many of
whom will read this piece) are largely resistant to accepting & acting on this knowledge? @dannydorling.bsky.social

In October 2020 @dannydorling.bsky.social joined us as we considered …. ‘Is the Human Species Slowing Down?’ ….You’ll find this meeting in our extensive archive….
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Danny Dorling: a full-throated optimist for dark times Podcast interview with Professor Danny Dorling on the world’s true crises and how attitudes are finally synchronising around positive change

"...the world’s true crises and how attitudes are finally synchronising around positive change..."
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The book cover of Seven Children: Inequality and Britain’s Next Generation by Danny Dorling. The title is in bold blue and red text on a cream background. To the right, a series of ascending blue bars form a bar chart, with children climbing or sitting on the bars to symbolise inequality and progression. The background behind the book cover is pink and black, with faint pink stencil-style rose motifs on the black sections.

🥳 Congratulations @dannydorling.bsky.social! Seven Children: Inequality and Britain’s Next Generation has been shortlisted for the Bread & Roses Award for Radical Publishing! 👏👏
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Summer of stink: Inside America's garbage labour dispute A garbage strike that began in Boston has led to trash pile-ups in cities across the country.

“"We have these negative associations with waste, particularly smellier waste, that is associated with poverty and disease – other things we don't like to see or think about," said Sarah A Moore, a professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Wisconsin”
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Summer of stink: Inside America's garbage labour dispute A garbage strike that began in Boston has led to trash pile-ups in cities across the country.

“"We have these negative associations with waste, particularly smellier waste, that is associated with poverty and disease – other things we don't like to see or think about," said Sarah A Moore, a professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Wisconsin”
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Take Big Money Out of Our Politics British politics is awash with money from super rich donors. In 2023, two-thirds of all private donations came from just 19 people. These so-called ‘mega donors’ enjoy privileged access to political p...

In 2023, two-thirds of all private donations in Britain came from just 19 people.

Cap political donations. Now

31,000 people have signed 38 Degrees’ petition!!

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Helsinki (pop 657,000) has not had a single traffic death during the last twelve months.

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Morecambe, by Bradford-born Fred Cecil Jones, 1891-1966 (private collection). #NorthernArt

Privatisation has turned our essential resource into a cash-cow for profiteers.

The Government’s long-awaited reform won’t fix it.

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As the Resolution Foundation (and others') analysis has shown, *any* credible strategy to cut child poverty *must* include the abolition of the two-child limit/benefit cap.

The Treasury knows this very well.

Du Bois on what these assholes were really like

The Sunflower II Group need your support with trial costs Just Stop Oil may have hung up the hi-viz but those who took action are still being criminalised by a government that is choosing to fuel the climate and ecological emergency rather than protect its c...

Just Stop Oil - In September 2024, Phil, Mollie and Ludi took direct action. They were arrested, are facing trial at Southwark Crown Court in January 2026, and could face two years imprisonment, the same sentence that two previous protestors received.

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We’ve got 2 SIGNED copies of The Next Crisis by @dannydorling.bsky.social in stock – just £15 (RRP £22)! 📘✍️

Dorling challenges assumptions & offers fresh solutions for navigating our uncertain future

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Every time I read Braudel and check the footnotes, I'm amazed. It's no wonder it took 25 years for him to write the trilogy. It's an incredible amount of reading, archival research, and thinking packed together - albeit sometimes in a haphazard manner. Truly incredible.

Join this powerful conversation on the crises shaping the UK and how we can solve them together.

@dannydorling.bsky.social is a Professor of Human Geography at the University of Oxford. He'll be speaking at #FoP2025.

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In Conversation with Professor Danny Dorling - Buy tickets Join Deputy Presiding Officer Liam McArthur MSP in conversation with Professor Danny Dorling, Professor of Human Geography at the University of Oxford and the UK’s best-known social geographer.

In Edinburgh on Thu 21 Aug 2025 and free at 11:00am ‐ 12:30pm?

Join Deputy Presiding Officer Liam McArthur MSP who is in conversation with Professor Danny Dorling, Professor of Human Geography at the University of Oxford.

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In Conversation with Professor Danny Dorling - Buy tickets Join Deputy Presiding Officer Liam McArthur MSP in conversation with Professor Danny Dorling, Professor of Human Geography at the University of Oxford and the UK’s best-known social geographer.

In Edinburgh on Thu 21 Aug 2025 and free at 11:00am ‐ 12:30pm?

Join Deputy Presiding Officer Liam McArthur MSP who is in conversation with Professor Danny Dorling, Professor of Human Geography at the University of Oxford.

See here for tickets: festivalofpolitics.citizenticket.co.uk/events/festi...

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@chrisgiles.ft.com: “Heard the one about how UK services exports were booming after Brexit?? Another myth sadly... My column ft.com/content/3e9dcd…

@chrisgiles.ft.com: “Heard the one about how UK services exports were booming after Brexit??

Another myth sadly...

My column ft.com/content/3e9dcd…”

Across Europe, the financial sector has pushed up house prices. It's a political timebomb | Tim White We’ve been living in a great experiment: can finance provide basic human rights such as housing? The answer is increasingly no, says researcher and writer Tim White

There's no place for institutional finance in rental markets. It's a predatory extraction machine that robs the poor and middle.

But one thing I'd add: we should stop calling these people "investors". They don't "invest". They buy up and milk existing assets. 🧵
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There's a good article by @dannydorling.bsky.social (paywalled sadly) that makes this very point.

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FESTIVAL OF POLITICS 2025: GEN Z AND POLITICS - John Smith Centre What and how do young people really think of and engage with politics? We’re delighted to be teaming up with the Festival of Politics once again to deliver a session on Gen Z and Politics, with our Re...

🚨 EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT: Gen Z and Politics at @parliament.scot's Festival of Politics!

Join Dr Elli Loose, @dannydorling.bsky.social and
@elliecraig.bsky.social for a panel discussion on what and how young people really think of and engage with politics 💭

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Opinion | To all who think capitalism can drive progressive change, it won’t – and here’s the shocking proof — The Guardian Asset manager Aberdeen’s surprise cut to funding research into inequality has left those that used its grants for good work reeling, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

In a field where small sums for social research projects can profoundly affect policy and politics.…..
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The Real 'Strangers' Among Us – Byline Times Digital / Print Edition Those who declare the UK to be an island of estranged individuals are the ones who should be looking closer to home, writes Danny Dorling

Those who declare the UK to be an island of estranged individuals are the ones who should be looking closer to home, writes Danny Dorling

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Thanks as always for your valued and inspiring contribution, @dannydorling.bsky.social

..the rise of nationalist and exclusionary rhetoric in British political discourse ... the quiet normalisation of racism and jingoism . ...challenge these narratives and defend a more inclusive, honest understanding of national identity

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..the rise of nationalist and exclusionary rhetoric in British political discourse ... the quiet normalisation of racism and jingoism . ...challenge these narratives and defend a more inclusive, honest understanding of national identity

@publicsectorfocus.bsky.social

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Increasing the threat of future outbreaks of preventable diseases, and foreign aid cuts threatening the previous progress in vaccinating the world's children…..who benefits from that? And what cost to eradicating poverty and tackling inequality?
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