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Danny Dorling
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Danny Dorling is a British social geographer. He is currently 1971 Professor of Geography attached to St Peter's College at the University of Oxford; a post he has held since appointed in September 2013. .. more

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Danny Dorling @dannydorling.bsky.social · 2d
I think your summary is not bad. A free PDF copy of the book can be downloaded from here: www.dannydorling.org/books/better...
Home Page | A Better Politics
A Better Politics: How Government Can Make Us Happier By Danny Dorling
www.dannydorling.org

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AJP (James Phillips) @ajp2.bsky.social · 2d
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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Inequality News @inequalitynews.bsky.social · 4d
🤔 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...

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Inequality News @inequalitynews.bsky.social · 5d
🚨 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...
‘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
www.theguardian.com

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Inequality News @inequalitynews.bsky.social · 6d
📢 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...
‘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 ...
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 19d
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.

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Cllr Emily Kerr 💚 @emilykerr36.bsky.social · 20d
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 photo of publicans marching against breath tests

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Phil Free @philfree.bsky.social · 23d
Yet Another Way Republicans Are Making Life More Expensive
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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.
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Municipal Dreams @municipaldreams.bsky.social · 24d
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.
Image of large model railway setup in old mill building

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Inequality News @inequalitynews.bsky.social · 27d
🤔 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...
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
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Danny Dorling @dannydorling.bsky.social · 27d
"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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Vote swings image. 2024-2025

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Danny Dorling @dannydorling.bsky.social · Oct 21
"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."
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Today, after what feels like a lifetime of campaigning, we are relieved.. — Class Divide
After reviewing all objections, the Schools Adjudicator has published his final decision on school admissi ons. He sided with objectors on one key point - stopping the planned reduction of places...
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