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Danny Dorling

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Leverhulme Trust @leverhulme.ac.uk · 10/08/2026
ICYMI: In the latest We Society episode, @dannydorling.bsky.social discusses the research behind his latest book which explores our growing obsession with the language of crisis. 🎙️ Tune in: media.leverhulme.ac.uk/podcast/dorl...
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Academy of Social Sciences @acadsocsciences.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
The We Society podcast🎙️is brought to you by the Academy of Social Sciences in association with the @nuffieldfoundation.org and @leverhulme.ac.uk. Listen, subscribe & find out more👂⬇️ podfollow.com/the-we-socie...
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The We Society
Beyond the politics, beyond our geography are the intangible connections that hold us together – The We Society.   The We Society podcast is here to tell you about the thousands of ways the Social…
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Academy of Social Sciences @acadsocsciences.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
“There’s a gap between incredibly concerning and 12 years to save the world.” ICYMI: Will Hutton is joined by @dannydorling.bsky.social to discuss the research behind his latest book & that our crises are often more nuanced than what’s in the headlines. Listen👂➡️ podfollow.com/the-we-socie...
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Leverhulme Trust @leverhulme.ac.uk · 05/08/2026
The We Society podcast is brought to you by @acadsocsciences.bsky.social in association with @nuffieldfoundation.org and the Leverhulme Trust. 🔗 Listen, subscribe & find out more: podfollow.com/the-we-socie...
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The We Society
Beyond the politics, beyond our geography are the intangible connections that hold us together – The We Society.   The We Society podcast is here to tell you about the thousands of ways the Social…
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Leverhulme Trust @leverhulme.ac.uk · 05/08/2026
Are we really experiencing more crises? In the latest episode of the We Society podcast, @dannydorling.bsky.social discusses the research behind his latest book and that our crises are often more nuanced than what’s in the headlines. 🎙️ Tune in: media.leverhulme.ac.uk/podcast/dorl...
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Sam Pizzigati @sgp.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
“The idea that extraordinary talent deserves extraordinary compensation” has become our modern-day justification for record inequality. @dannydorling.bsky.social #billionaires jacobin.com/2026/07/econ...
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Take a Moment to Feel the Pain of the Rich
Once respectable opinion fretted about distinguishing the “deserving” poor from the “undeserving.” Today, as sentiment against the ultrarich surges, the Economist argues that it is in fact billionaire...
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School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford @oxfordgeography.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
🏚️ @dannydorling.bsky.social unpacks the causes, impacts and potential solutions to the UK's #housing crisis - and its manifestation in #Oxford - in a new article with @ox.ac.uk's Pulse: www.ox.ac.uk/news/pulse/p...
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David Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Here's @lucyham.bsky.social. "Why do we have one trillionaire and (thus far) zero guillotines?"
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Why do we have one trillionaire and (thus far) zero guillotines?  - The Shot
For a century humanity has been experiencing a counterrevolution. A counterrevolution staged by the very richest amongst us, waged against...
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Inequality News @inequalitynews.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
📢 INEQUALITY GRAPHIC OF THE WEEK (No.19) 🔽 From the 1980s onwards, poverty has been increasingly baked into Britain as politics and economics have moved to the right… Source: Prof. Danny Dorling Shattered Nation: Inequality and the Geography of a Failing State www.dannydorling.org/books/shatte...
Graph showing poverty falling in the 1970s and then rising from 1980s onwards. Poverty increasingly baked into Britain as politics and economics have moved rightwards.
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Inequality News @inequalitynews.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
📢 Excellent new report 🔽 from @equalitytrust.bsky.social highlighting the annual obscenity that is the Sunday Times Rich List which is still being compiled and flaunted as the cost of living crisis grinds on for millions in the UK... 🤮🤮🤮 #HollowEconomy #GhostGDP equalitytrust.org.uk/news/ghost-g...
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Ghost GDP — Billionaire Britain and the Hollow Economy - Equality Trust
An analysis of how billionaire wealth, rentier capitalism and “ghost GDP” are hollowing out the UK economy, deepening inequality and weakening democracy.
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Dr Lucinda Hiam @lucindahiam.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
With thanks to @dannydorling.bsky.social for his insights on the UK's public spending compared to Europe: www.dannydorling.org/books/peakin...
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Mira🌺 @deepgreens.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Water that is lit by the sunset and calmly carries the sunset beams to my feet... 🌺 #BeachLife #Photography #WaterWednesday
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Inequality News @inequalitynews.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
📢 INEQUALITY GRAPHIC OF THE WEEK (No.14) 🔽 Worst in class (again): A roof over our heads should be a right and not subject to market forces. Thatcher's malign legacy lives on… Source: Prof. Danny Dorling Peak Injustice: Solving Britain’s Inequality Crisis www.dannydorling.org/books/peakin...
Graph for England showing it the worst performing country among rich developed nations for levels of homelessness (2023). Finland suffers hardly any homelessness.
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Danny Dorling @dannydorling.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
: For May Day, you can get a year's subscription to the beautiful socialist print magazine Jacobin for just $10, and a digital subscription for just $1! jacobin.com/subscribe/?c...
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Danny Dorling @dannydorling.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
: For May Day, you can get a year's subscription to the beautiful socialist print magazine Jacobin for just $10, and a digital subscription for just $1! jacobin.com/subscribe/?c...
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Public Sector Focus @publicsectorfocus.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Public Sector Focus has been redesigned - but its mission remains unchanged. Refreshed design, updated masthead & sharper focus on the pressures shaping public services. Evidence-led analysis of policy, reform & innovation across the sector - read the new issue here: flk.bz/uDC3
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Martin McKee @martinmckee.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
We’ve ( @lucindahiam.bsky.social @dannydorling.bsky.social ) been pointing out for years that 🇬🇧 has a health crisis. e.g. we showed how we tumbled down the global rankings throughout the reign of the late Queen journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Kate Dixon @katefdixon.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Revelation after revelation with Prof @dannydorling.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk on @peteryork.bsky.social Culture Wars House party podcast this week – on Brexit myths, Britain’s place at the top of Europe’s inequality league, and how to fight the good fight. 🎧 Full episode: podfollow.com/peter-yorks-...
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Peter York's Culture Wars House Party
“PETER YORK’S CULTURE WARS HOUSE PARTY” podcast is all about Peter’s cultural preoccupations which range from how political Culture Wars are waged, to the reputational currency of clever celebrities, ...
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Inequality News @inequalitynews.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
📢 INEQUALITY GRAPHIC OF THE WEEK (No.11) 🔽 A majority of people on £150k+ p/a in the UK do not seem to care much about those who are less fortunate. Inequality erodes compassion... Source: Prof. Danny Dorling Peak Injustice: Solving Britain’s Inequality Crisis www.dannydorling.org/books/peakin...
Horizontal bar graph showing that a majority of people in the UK with incomes of £150K or more do not believe that the govt is offering too little support to help people with the cost of living crisis. In lower income brackets, a majority of people disagree.
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
From Roger Scruton cafes to paying Matt Goodwin $10k a month, Viktor Orban has built a network of populist right think tanks, journalists and activists Today Democracy for Sale delves into Orban’s allies on the British right Well worth a read democracyforsale.substack.com/p/orbans-brits
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What happens to Britain's radical right if Orbán loses?
Inside the money, power and patronage connecting Hungary and the British right
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Inequality News @inequalitynews.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
📢 INEQUALITY GRAPHIC OF THE WEEK (No.10) 🔽 Climate change is less of a worry for those who are struggling to survive day to day. Fairness ⚖️ must be at the heart of Green politics...💚 Source: Prof. Danny Dorling The Next Crisis: What We Think About The Future www.dannydorling.org/books/thenex...
Horizontal bar graph showing that material worries like inflation, poverty and inequality and unemployment worry people the most (globally) whereas climate change is only the 8th biggest worry. Immigration is at No.11. Data from Ipsos 'What Worries the World' surveys (2023) reprinted in Danny Dorling's 'The Next Crisis' book.
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Martin McKee @martinmckee.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
One of the greatest privileges of academia is supervising remarkable young people. Absolutely thrilled by @lucindahiam.bsky.social successful DPhil defence at Oxford yesterday - with thanks also to my co-supervisor @dannydorling.bsky.social
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Oxford Review of Education @oxfordreved.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Paul Black (1930–2026) influenced the field of education through his work on formative assessment, transforming the relationship between learning, pedagogy, and assessment. Taylor & Francis have made his ORE articles free to view in perpetuity. doi.org/10.1080/0305... doi.org/10.1080/7136...
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Learning, League Tables and National Assessment: opportunity lost or hope deferred?
In 1988, the UK government accepted most of a set of radical proposals which their Task Group on Assessment and Testing had set out as the basis for a new scheme of national assessment. This paper ...
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Danny Dorling @dannydorling.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Danny Dorling speaking on "The Next Crisis" in Oxford: 730pm on Tuesday 14 April 2026. For Oxford Humanists, at: North Oxford Association Community Centre, Annexe Diamond Place, Summertown, Oxford, OX2 7PD To register and for more information see: humanists.uk/events/the-n...
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Eric Maugendre @data.yt · 30/03/2026
Thank you Frank for the pointer! Thank you @dannydorling.bsky.social for making the pics available! They are so beautiful!
Global fuel-industry CO2 emissions, 1750–1910
from https://www.dannydorling.org/books/SLOWDOWN/
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Danny Dorling @dannydorling.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Danny Dorling speaking on "The Next Crisis" in Oxford: 730pm on Tuesday 14 April 2026. For Oxford Humanists, at: North Oxford Association Community Centre, Annexe Diamond Place, Summertown, Oxford, OX2 7PD To register and for more information see: humanists.uk/events/the-n...
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Inequality News @inequalitynews.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
📢 INEQUALITY GRAPHIC OF THE WEEK (No.9) 🔽 The deliberate shrinking of the UK state means fewer people are working for the common good, and so things fall apart... Source: Prof. Danny Dorling Shattered Nation: Inequality and the Geography of a Failing State www.dannydorling.org/books/shatte...
Graph showing steep fall in the proportion of people working in the public sector (i.e. working for the common good) in the UK from 1992 to 2021, falling from 23% to 17% (note: of the much larger total national workforce) over the period.
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Phil Free @philfree.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
“Villages, unlike towns, have always been ruled by conformism, isolation, petty surveillance, boredom & repetitive malicious gossip about the same families. Which is a precise enough description of the global spectacle’s present vulgarity…” @pure-culture.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/blackd/p...
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Spectacular Integration
What Guy Debord Saw Coming
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Jo Wood @jwolondon.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
I've said it before, but I'll say it again. Grant Sanderson (@3blue1brown.com) is one of the most skilled visual communicators. His explanations are pedagogic masterpieces and a joy to experience. He's outdone himself with his latest on M.C. Escher's Prentententoonstelling. youtu.be/ldxFjLJ3rVY
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This picture broke my brain
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Inequality News @inequalitynews.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
📢 WHEN FASCISTS SPEAK, BELIEVE THEM ➡️ "One senior member said this would be modelled on the second Trump administration, with a focus on making change via executive orders rather than legislation, where possible." www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Reform UK government would replace top civil servants with those ‘more likely to implement party’s priorities’
Exclusive: Senior party figures conclude outsiders or existing senior staff deemed more suitable should take over from current permanent secretaries
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Danny Dorling @dannydorling.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
The billionaires, the middle men, and the little people @publicsectorfocus.bsky.social
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Inequality News @inequalitynews.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
📢 INEQUALITY GRAPHIC OF THE WEEK (No.4) 🔽 Overly bleak and premature scenarios, certainly, but what happens when population falls? Immigration hysteria blinds us to this challenge... Source: Prof. Danny Dorling The Next Crisis: What We Think About The Future www.dannydorling.org/books/thenex...
A graph showing various extreme and very unlikely global population scenarios to 2100 where the population falls sharply from around 2020 into the coming decades and then recovers slightly. But what will happen when population falls? Current immigration hysteria blinds us to this challenge.
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LSE Inequalities @lseinequalities.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
“Imagine you had to design a society without knowing your own place in it... Would you design one where a tiny elite accumulates unimaginable wealth while a third of children grow up in poverty?” – @profkepickett.bsky.social of @equalitytrust.bsky.social #LSEInequalitiesBlog
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Why my vision of a Good Society is evidence-based, not utopian
We have a choice about the kind of society that we build. A fairer, more prosperous society is possible, but requires moving away from “trickle-down” economics.
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Inequality News @inequalitynews.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
📢 INEQUALITY GRAPHIC OF THE WEEK (No.2) 🔽 The UK has a terrible recent record on child poverty, the worst of all the nations below, worsened by the 2-child benefit cap from 2017. Source: Prof. Danny Dorling Peak Injustice: Solving Britain’s Inequality Crisis www.dannydorling.org/books/peakin...
Graph showing international comparison of child poverty rates from 2012-14 to 2019-21. The UK is the worst performer of all the nations with a proportional increase of around 20%.
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Danny Dorling @dannydorling.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
See below for a survey where input will help identify case studies for deeper research into how people come together to advance health policy in divided settings, where trust between groups is limited. ....
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Dr Lucinda Hiam @lucindahiam.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
🇺🇸 Have you seen a US health policy move forward even when political views were deeply polarized? We're collecting examples as part of my Harkness Fellowship project on how people come together to advance health policy in divided environments. 🔗Share examples here: forms.gle/tXR6MGby4fee...
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Inequality News @inequalitynews.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
📢 INEQUALITY GRAPHIC OF THE WEEK (No.1) 🔽 A century’s worth of progress in reducing inequality has been thrown sharply into reverse in the past four decades. Source: Prof. Danny Dorling The Next Crisis: What We Think About The Future www.dannydorling.org/books/thenex...
A graph showing the wealth share of the top 1% in US, France, UK, and Sweden falling from 1895 to around 1980 and then going into reverse and increasing for the past 4 decades.
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Inequality News @inequalitynews.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
📢 COMING SOON... starting in February we will be launching our new "Inequality Graphic of the Week" using graphs and other content drawn from the excellent work of @dannydorling.bsky.social all with his kind encouragement and best wishes ♥️. Stay tuned folks 👀
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William Thomson @williameconomist.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
On Wed, 21st Jan, the Scotonomics podcast episode will feature Professor Danny Dorling @dannydorling.bsky.social Primarily, we are online to discuss his latest book: The Next Crisis. Thoughts turn to the role of the mainstream economist. Danny's book: www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc... 1/4
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The Next Crisis
Every month, surveys around the world ask people to tell them what they are really thinking. The results are at times reassuring, some-times chilling and often unexpected. In The Next Crisis, leading ...
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
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...
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Jenrick fast-tracked Westferry decision to save Desmond £45m
Housing secretary Robert Jenrick was ‘insistent’ on pushing through the 1,500-home Westferry Printworks scheme, saving its backer Conservative party donor Richard Desmond £45 million, documents reveal
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Inequality News @inequalitynews.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
📢 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 🤮🤮🤮
A vertical bar graph showing FTSE 100 CEOs grabbing £150,576 almost 4 times the average annual wage (£39,039) over the 12 Days of Christmas.
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Inequality News @inequalitynews.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
📢 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! 👍♥️✊
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Danny Dorling @dannydorling.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
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...
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Danny Dorling @dannydorling.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
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...
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
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...
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''Our Lobbying System is a Total Joke': Peter Geoghegan Tells James O'Brien
YouTube video by Democracy for Sale
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Inequality News @inequalitynews.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
🙂 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...
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EU Erasmus scheme to reopen to UK students for first time since Brexit
Deal agreed for £570m to rejoin exchange programme in 2027, fulfilling Labour election manifesto pledge
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Inequality News @inequalitynews.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
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...
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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...
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Inequality News @inequalitynews.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
📢 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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‘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
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Inequality News @inequalitynews.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
📢 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.18 🔽 Thank You! 👍♥️✊
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Inequality News @inequalitynews.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
🚨 .... 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...
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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
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