Austerity, centralised control, and the local elections.
Taking it to the street -- "it's the potholes, Stupid"
Very good piece from Simon Jenkins.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Celebrating anti-optimal living.
"Things fall apart; the metrics cannot hold."
A really important topic for academics - having children - and one that still doesn't get much airtime.
A really important topic for academics - having children - and one that still doesn't get much airtime.
Excellent paper by @palmapolyak.bsky.social showing distinct models of "clean tech" with very different outcomes for place.
Shows some of the complicated relationships between decarbonisation efforts, industrial policy, & geopolitics.
Privatisation is not a “one-way street” - it is reversible.
Remunicipalisation is a type of privatisation reversal where previously privatised services are brought back under local municipal control.
free to access
academic.oup.com/cjres/advanc...
@judithclifton.bsky.social
@weownit.org.uk
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Clearly, time to post this link again ... we argue electricity should be a basic human right and should be considered part of a social minimum. (free access)
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Private equity and the high street - asset stripping, debt, closure
Modella owns chains TGJones, Claire’s and The Original Factory Shop, which have now closed all stores with the loss of about 2,500 jobs. And, Hobbycraft , which also closed numerous stores.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Very good paper on the links between the rise of the right, austerity and running down public services (free to access)
Public services are "important anchors of people's electoral choices"
Study is on Italy but I think we see this in the UK as well
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/CUDU5R...
Mia Gray
Mia Gray
Mia Gray
Mia Gray
We need to rejoin the EU to stop the risk of these kinds of threats transpiring.
Medium countries like the UK have no bargaining power in global trade on their own.
We need to raise tax on US big tech + then replace it with open source + public option tech.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Mia Gray
Mia Gray
Mia Gray
Mia Gray
🎧 Our new #GLaDpodcast episode—Baby Talk—is all about, yeah, babies. Plus the academic life course, careers and the messy business of advice and decisionmaking. What's not to love?!
With @darribas.bsky.social @levijohnwolf.bsky.social & @pietrostefani.bsky.social
open.spotify.com/episode/5TDJ...
🎧 Our new #GLaDpodcast episode—Baby Talk—is all about, yeah, babies. Plus the academic life course, careers and the messy business of advice and decisionmaking. What's not to love?!
With @darribas.bsky.social @levijohnwolf.bsky.social & @pietrostefani.bsky.social
open.spotify.com/episode/5TDJ...
