Jonathan Davies
@profjsdavies.bsky.social
Former professor of urban studies and public policy.
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Jonathan Davies
@profjsdavies.bsky.social
· Oct 10
Towards a crisis of resilience? Eight takes on a troubling concept
Framed by the contradictory tonalities of United Nations (UN) discourse, the paper argues that the global governance concept of resilience is being drawn into the very crises it seeks to mitigate, ...
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Now published in City: Analysis of Urban Change, Theory and Action. Towards a Crisis of Resilience? Eight takes on a Troubling Concept. This one was two years in review, so delighted to see it out there. @city-journal.bsky.social
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Makes a lot of sense.
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November 30, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Makes a lot of sense.
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Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88
Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88
A theatrical sensation since the 1960s, whose dramas included Arcadia, The Real Thing and Leopoldstadt, Stoppard also had huge success as a screenwriter
The playwright Tom Stoppard, whose playful erudition dazzled the theatregoing world for decades, has died aged 88.
One of a select band of writers from any discipline to earn his own adjective – “Stoppardian” – in the Oxford English Dictionary, he delighted in the most improbable juxtapositions: philosophy and gymnastics in Jumpers (1972); early 19th-century landscape gardening and chaos theory in Arcadia (1993); rock music, dissident Czech academics and the love poetry of Sappho in Rock ’n’ Roll (2006). Continue reading...
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November 29, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88
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Viola Fletcher, Oldest Survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Dies at 111 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/u...
Viola Fletcher, Oldest Survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Dies at 111
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November 24, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Viola Fletcher, Oldest Survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Dies at 111 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/u...
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Day 3 Sheffield Uni UCU strike against threat of extensive redundancies. 400 academic staff gone. Nearly 100 more now confirmed. They want another £10m staff saving this year, despite being in a strong position financially. #SheffieldUCU @sheffielducu.bsky.social www.ucu.org.uk/article/1423...
November 19, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Day 3 Sheffield Uni UCU strike against threat of extensive redundancies. 400 academic staff gone. Nearly 100 more now confirmed. They want another £10m staff saving this year, despite being in a strong position financially. #SheffieldUCU @sheffielducu.bsky.social www.ucu.org.uk/article/1423...
I know the blimps want us to get ready for war. But is anyone seriously weighing the true extent of any threat based on structural factors?
E.g., the Russian economy has around 20% of the purchasing power of the EU. How is Russia going to steamroller Europe?
E.g., the Russian economy has around 20% of the purchasing power of the EU. How is Russia going to steamroller Europe?
November 23, 2025 at 11:28 AM
I know the blimps want us to get ready for war. But is anyone seriously weighing the true extent of any threat based on structural factors?
E.g., the Russian economy has around 20% of the purchasing power of the EU. How is Russia going to steamroller Europe?
E.g., the Russian economy has around 20% of the purchasing power of the EU. How is Russia going to steamroller Europe?
One for the anti vaxers, covidiots and great barrington “libertarians”. Lethally dangerous morons with corrupt, seedy, Trumpish Johnson atop the pile.
“Have they given up? Are they just deciding to build up herd immunity by watching us die? The government has given up, hasn’t it? They are throwing us into the slaughterhouse.”
It’s not hindsight - we knew this at the time @drrachelclarke.com writes:
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
It’s not hindsight - we knew this at the time @drrachelclarke.com writes:
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
I’ll never forget the horror of the Covid wards | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 23, 2025 at 10:10 AM
One for the anti vaxers, covidiots and great barrington “libertarians”. Lethally dangerous morons with corrupt, seedy, Trumpish Johnson atop the pile.
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“People died who could have been saved. These deaths are facts that cannot be denied. And I will never forget what I saw.”
The COVID enquiry shines a light on the abject failure of the UK’s public health response - too little, too late.
The COVID enquiry shines a light on the abject failure of the UK’s public health response - too little, too late.
November 23, 2025 at 10:02 AM
“People died who could have been saved. These deaths are facts that cannot be denied. And I will never forget what I saw.”
The COVID enquiry shines a light on the abject failure of the UK’s public health response - too little, too late.
The COVID enquiry shines a light on the abject failure of the UK’s public health response - too little, too late.
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“Have they given up? Are they just deciding to build up herd immunity by watching us die? The government has given up, hasn’t it? They are throwing us into the slaughterhouse.”
It’s not hindsight - we knew this at the time @drrachelclarke.com writes:
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
It’s not hindsight - we knew this at the time @drrachelclarke.com writes:
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
I’ll never forget the horror of the Covid wards | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 23, 2025 at 10:02 AM
“Have they given up? Are they just deciding to build up herd immunity by watching us die? The government has given up, hasn’t it? They are throwing us into the slaughterhouse.”
It’s not hindsight - we knew this at the time @drrachelclarke.com writes:
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
It’s not hindsight - we knew this at the time @drrachelclarke.com writes:
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
I created a £31 billion surplus without even increasing the basic rate of income tax. The rich won’t be happy. 😁
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www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...
Could you do better than Reeves as chancellor? Play our interactive budget game
Can you pull the levers of power to deliver a successful budget? Can you keep backbenchers happy without upsetting the bond markets? And can you do it all while keeping the books balanced? Try our bud...
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November 20, 2025 at 6:43 PM
I created a £31 billion surplus without even increasing the basic rate of income tax. The rich won’t be happy. 😁
www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...
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New: Dialogues in Urban Research exploring what it means to think about crisis as urban & how locating crisis in the urban reconfigures relations between eventful & everyday crisis politics, materiality, discourse & movement. Part of a great set of interventions.
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October 10, 2025 at 1:34 PM
New: Dialogues in Urban Research exploring what it means to think about crisis as urban & how locating crisis in the urban reconfigures relations between eventful & everyday crisis politics, materiality, discourse & movement. Part of a great set of interventions.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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'Once again, the lack of regulation in the university sector has thrown up the risk of creating disciplinary “cold spots”; if the proposals are adopted, students in the East Midlands will no longer have a local opportunity to develop an integrated knowledge of languages and cultures.' 3/3
November 15, 2025 at 8:06 AM
'Once again, the lack of regulation in the university sector has thrown up the risk of creating disciplinary “cold spots”; if the proposals are adopted, students in the East Midlands will no longer have a local opportunity to develop an integrated knowledge of languages and cultures.' 3/3
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'After vigorous and partially successful attempts to save modern languages degrees at Cardiff...and the University of Aberdeen in the past two years, linguists are now called upon to point out the equally obvious folly of cutting modern languages at the universities of Nottingham and Leicester.' 1/3
The latest threat to UK modern languages is yet another faux pas
Nottingham and Leicester are taking a swing at language departments. But those proposing closures have taken their eye off the ball, say four linguists
www.timeshighereducation.com
November 15, 2025 at 8:06 AM
'After vigorous and partially successful attempts to save modern languages degrees at Cardiff...and the University of Aberdeen in the past two years, linguists are now called upon to point out the equally obvious folly of cutting modern languages at the universities of Nottingham and Leicester.' 1/3
You get a pass. You’re wealthy, we get the money back, plus a lot more, by taxing the arse off you. Simples! #universalism
TV presenter Kirstie Allsopp has become embroiled in a row with children’s author Michael Rosen after accusing some users of a free public transport travel pass for pensioners of “bankrupting our country”.
Kirstie Allsopp says free bus pass users like Michael Rosen 'bankrupting us'
www.mirror.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 10:00 AM
You get a pass. You’re wealthy, we get the money back, plus a lot more, by taxing the arse off you. Simples! #universalism
We are under a severe weather warning for rain from 12:00, and advised to make preparations and take action. Can anyone advise me of what these preparations and actions should consist? So far, I've pulled the curtains and retreated to bed. Anything else?
November 14, 2025 at 9:36 AM
We are under a severe weather warning for rain from 12:00, and advised to make preparations and take action. Can anyone advise me of what these preparations and actions should consist? So far, I've pulled the curtains and retreated to bed. Anything else?
Professor Turi King, who led the research, said: “If he was to look at his own genetic results, he’d almost certainly have sent himself to the gas chambers.”
www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/adol...
www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/adol...
Adolf Hitler may have had micro-penis due to genetic disorder, researchers say
Documentary investigating the Nazi dictator’s DNA reveals Adolf Hitler had Kallmann syndrome, a disorder which delays puberty and hinders sexual development
www.standard.co.uk
November 13, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Professor Turi King, who led the research, said: “If he was to look at his own genetic results, he’d almost certainly have sent himself to the gas chambers.”
www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/adol...
www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/adol...
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I wrote for the Big Issue about Sudan and how the UK's foreign policy choices cause forced displacement while the UK then denies responsibility for refugees and refuses safe routes to seek asylum.
www.bigissue.com/opinion/suda...
www.bigissue.com/opinion/suda...
Sudan war exposes hypocrisy of UK government's treatment of asylum seekers
Ben Whitham, senior policy and research officer at Refugee Action, writes that the Sudan war exposes 'racial injustice' in the asylum system.
www.bigissue.com
November 12, 2025 at 8:43 AM
I wrote for the Big Issue about Sudan and how the UK's foreign policy choices cause forced displacement while the UK then denies responsibility for refugees and refuses safe routes to seek asylum.
www.bigissue.com/opinion/suda...
www.bigissue.com/opinion/suda...
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In an interview about Palantir's creeping involvement in the British state and the NHS, I told @prospectmagazine.co.uk: “Its business is death and destruction. This is not an organisation you want running the democratic jewel of the postwar period.”
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/dem...
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/dem...
How Palantir infiltrated the state
At a moment of national emergency, the government handed our data to Peter Thiel’s controversial company
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
November 12, 2025 at 10:49 AM
In an interview about Palantir's creeping involvement in the British state and the NHS, I told @prospectmagazine.co.uk: “Its business is death and destruction. This is not an organisation you want running the democratic jewel of the postwar period.”
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/dem...
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/dem...
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Thanks to all who have already signed the petition about the closure of Geography at the Uni. If you haven’t, please do so to help stop this ill-thought out action that threatens the future of staff, students & the discipline at Leicester
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www.change.org/p/save-geogr...
Sign the Petition
Save Geography at the University of Leicester
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November 9, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Thanks to all who have already signed the petition about the closure of Geography at the Uni. If you haven’t, please do so to help stop this ill-thought out action that threatens the future of staff, students & the discipline at Leicester
www.change.org/p/save-geogr...
www.change.org/p/save-geogr...
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“The essential services we need to survive used to be owned by us: the UK public. Our public services have been sold off to private corporations over whom we have no control.”
@kmilb.bsky.social, author of Radical Abundance, interviewed on @neweconomics.bsky.social
neweconomics.org/2025/10/radi...
@kmilb.bsky.social, author of Radical Abundance, interviewed on @neweconomics.bsky.social
neweconomics.org/2025/10/radi...
Radical abundance: how to build an alternative to capitalism
Ayeisha Thomas-Smith is joined by Keir Milburn and Frances Northrop
neweconomics.org
November 8, 2025 at 5:12 PM
“The essential services we need to survive used to be owned by us: the UK public. Our public services have been sold off to private corporations over whom we have no control.”
@kmilb.bsky.social, author of Radical Abundance, interviewed on @neweconomics.bsky.social
neweconomics.org/2025/10/radi...
@kmilb.bsky.social, author of Radical Abundance, interviewed on @neweconomics.bsky.social
neweconomics.org/2025/10/radi...
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As an alumni of Syracuse University, it's appalling that they are capitulating against a right-wing campaign against Professor Farhana Sultana for exercising her first amendment rights. Do consider signing this letter calling on Syracuse University to reinstate her docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Letter of Support for Professor Farhana Sultana
As scholars within and beyond academia, we write in solidarity with academic freedom of expression with our colleague, Dr. Farhana Sultana, an internationally recognized scholar and tenured Full Profe...
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October 29, 2025 at 9:08 PM
As an alumni of Syracuse University, it's appalling that they are capitulating against a right-wing campaign against Professor Farhana Sultana for exercising her first amendment rights. Do consider signing this letter calling on Syracuse University to reinstate her docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
I still don’t understand why they ruled out tax rises. It would’ve made no electoral difference. Reviving the fortunes of a faded imperial hegemon is far beyond a government such as this one, but so much of the political damage is self-inflicted.
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
Reeves refuses to say she will stick to manifesto pledge on tax rises and insists she must face world ‘as it is’ – UK politics live
Chancellor says she is focused on priorities for British people in pre-budget speech laying ground for expected tax rises
www.theguardian.com
November 4, 2025 at 8:58 AM
I still don’t understand why they ruled out tax rises. It would’ve made no electoral difference. Reviving the fortunes of a faded imperial hegemon is far beyond a government such as this one, but so much of the political damage is self-inflicted.
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
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Event alert! 📣
Guest lecture: Prof John Tomaney (UCL) on Mayors & 🏴
Discussants: Dr Caroline Brown @drcarolinebrown.bsky.social (RTPI) & Prof Iain Docherty (Stirling University)
🗓️ Wed, 26 Nov, 4-6pm
📍 Clarice Pears Bld, 90 Byres Road, Glasgow
Come & join us!
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Guest lecture: Prof John Tomaney (UCL) on Mayors & 🏴
Discussants: Dr Caroline Brown @drcarolinebrown.bsky.social (RTPI) & Prof Iain Docherty (Stirling University)
🗓️ Wed, 26 Nov, 4-6pm
📍 Clarice Pears Bld, 90 Byres Road, Glasgow
Come & join us!
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Mayors - exploring the promises and pitfalls
On Wednesday 26th November, we will be joined for a guest lecture by Prof John Tomaney from UCL.
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October 31, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Event alert! 📣
Guest lecture: Prof John Tomaney (UCL) on Mayors & 🏴
Discussants: Dr Caroline Brown @drcarolinebrown.bsky.social (RTPI) & Prof Iain Docherty (Stirling University)
🗓️ Wed, 26 Nov, 4-6pm
📍 Clarice Pears Bld, 90 Byres Road, Glasgow
Come & join us!
www.eventbrite.com/e/mayors-exp...
Guest lecture: Prof John Tomaney (UCL) on Mayors & 🏴
Discussants: Dr Caroline Brown @drcarolinebrown.bsky.social (RTPI) & Prof Iain Docherty (Stirling University)
🗓️ Wed, 26 Nov, 4-6pm
📍 Clarice Pears Bld, 90 Byres Road, Glasgow
Come & join us!
www.eventbrite.com/e/mayors-exp...
A quite extraordinary cloudburst filled those bunkers up. Around 15 minutes of rain.
October 31, 2025 at 2:30 PM
A quite extraordinary cloudburst filled those bunkers up. Around 15 minutes of rain.