Is Robert Jenrick the most high profile political defector to inspire a scene in a Booker prize winner? And it even involves corruption David Szalay’s Flesh - which, no pun intended, left me cold - has a scene clearly based on this www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/jenrick...

📢 THANK YOU for your support this year ♥️ Below is a reminder of the gross #inequality that ruins the UK every day. Figures are based on the High Pay Centre’s findings that, in 2024/25, the AVERAGE FTSE 100 CEO gouged a “salary” of £4,580,000. Divide by 365 and you get a daily pay out of £12,548 🤮🤮🤮

📢 WE'RE POSTING our 'Inequality Graph of the Week' series from 'The Spirit Level at 15 dataset', one graph a day (give or take...), up until Christmas. Please share widely and help us spread the word that more equal societies are fairer, greener, and healthier for everyone. No.26 🔽 Thank You! 👍♥️✊

Ending 2025: How a student was arrested, detained, and deported over a visa issue when the pandemic delayed graduation — an ordeal that exposes the harshness of Denmark’s immigration system, now being considered for imitation by the UK. @publicsectorfocus.bsky.social flickread.com/edition/html...

Ending 2025: How a student was arrested, detained, and deported over a visa issue when the pandemic delayed graduation — an ordeal that exposes the harshness of Denmark’s immigration system, now being considered for imitation by the UK. @publicsectorfocus.bsky.social flickread.com/edition/html...

Great to talk foreign interference and the woeful laws that are supposed to protect our democracy with @mrjamesob.bsky.social this morning www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUGf...

🙂 Our slow crawl back towards the post-Imperial EU lifeboat continues. It would be so much easier if Labour simply came out for rejoining. Support for Brexit continues to fall... www.theguardian.com/education/20...

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...

📢 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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🚨 .... 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...

📢 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: tinyurl.com/fumw5hn6

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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 .

📢 WE'RE POSTING our 'Inequality Graph of the Week' series from 'The Spirit Level at 15 dataset', one graph a day (give or take...), up until Christmas. Please share widely and help us spread the word that more equal societies are fairer, greener, and healthier for everyone. No.11 🔽 Thank You! 👍♥️✊

📢 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...

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...

🚨 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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📢 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...

📢 WE'RE POSTING our 'Inequality Graph of the Week' series from 'The Spirit Level at 15 dataset', one graph a day (give or take...), up until Christmas. Please share widely and help us spread the word that more equal societies are fairer, greener, and healthier for everyone. No.6 🔽 Thank You! 👍♥️✊

📢 WE'RE POSTING our 'Inequality Graph of the Week' series from 'The Spirit Level at 15 dataset', one graph a day (give or take...), up until Christmas. Please share widely and help us spread the word that more equal societies are fairer, greener, and healthier for everyone. No.4 🔽 Thank You! 👍♥️✊

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 newrepublic.com/article/1982...

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.

🤔 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...

"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." flickread.com/edition/html...

"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." flickread.com/edition/html...

"Our goal was to create a more socially and economically mixed school system ... We always thought that changing our city’s catchment and admissions policies was a legitimate way to do this, and the Schools Adjudicator has now confirmed it is." www.classdivide.co.uk/news/today-a...

A few weeks ago I was lucky enough to talk about my new book, Sink or Swim, with @dannydorling.bsky.social at @caper.fun. It was a really interesting conversation and a great first bookshop event for me. Have a listen below. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApWV...

Care about what matters to you - Or Lose It. Clip from Prof Danny Dorling speaking at Festival of Politics in Holyrood. @dannydorling.bsky.social

At our next hybrid Bradford Hill Seminar, @dannydorling.bsky.social of the University of Oxford will discuss: The politics of epidemiology and public health in the UK 📅 Wed 15 October, 1 PM (UK) Register at buff.ly/wblZfOx @dphpc.bsky.social @mrc-bsu.bsky.social @phgfoundation.bsky.social

My department @geographieudem.bsky.social is looking for a professor in human geography specializing in the study of social-ecological transformations, political ecology, climate change, environmental justice and/or the geography of risks and infrastructures. Deadline November 10, share widely!

Fascinating and hugely depressing stuff by @patrickmaguire.bsky.social There’s a void at the heart of Labour: it needs a battle of ideas www.thetimes.com/article/7177...

With an forward by @labourlewis.bsky.social and contributions from @jemgilbert.bsky.social, @philbc3.bsky.social, @meadwaj.bsky.social, @dannydorling.bsky.social and many others, it looks like a good read. And there's a discount if you buy it through them...

"Do health professionals have a special duty to speak up against the genocide? I think we do." Fiona Godlee explains why she protested against events in Gaza and the government's proscription of Palestine Action www.bmj.com/content/390/...

Happy to announce our fall programme! Pleased to be hosting @brdemuth.bsky.social for our annual flagship lecture on Nov 6. We'll also welcome @andrewseaton.bsky.social and @dannydorling.bsky.social on Dec 4 for a discussion of Andrew's new work on coal. For more info, see the web link in our bio.

#Gaza is no anomaly: Hunger & hoarding are the West’s oldest weapons www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

“…as of March this year, 2,200 Palestinian families were completely wiped out from the civil registry, all of their members killed. More than 5,120 families had only one member left.” In #Gaza, death does not come all at once. It comes in instalments www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

This Thursday, all welcome.