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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · Sep 8

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@feministonmarx.bsky.social
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Common Wealth @cmmonwealth.bsky.social · Aug 6

“Resolving the housing crisis depends upon reversing and replacing the changes to the British housing system and society that Right to Buy helped to bring about.”

Our latest report covered by @davidjmadden.bsky.social in @theguardian.com 🔗👇

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Thatcher’s right to buy policy is celebrated but here’s the cost: losses to us all of £194bn and a fractured society | David Madden

A new report details the damage. This was an ideological ploy from which we have yet to recover, says LSE’s David Madden

www.theguardian.com

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LSE Sociology @lsesociology.bsky.social · Aug 7

"Before the policy, social housing made up 31% of overall housing tenure in England. Today it is 16%, causing council housing waiting lists and homelessness to surge."

📰 Read @davidjmadden.bsky.social in @theguardian.com on the enduring impact of Thatcher's Right to Buy policy.

Thatcher’s right to buy policy is celebrated but here’s the cost: losses to us all of £194bn and a fractured society | David Madden

A new report details the damage. This was an ideological ploy from which we have yet to recover, says LSE’s David Madden

www.theguardian.com

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David Madden @davidjmadden.bsky.social · Jun 26

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Miro Born @miroborn.bsky.social · Jun 18

My new article in @city-journal.bsky.social argues for a critical understanding of the meritocratic ideal among urban researchers. In particular, it explores the consequences of how this ideal is reproduced in stigmatised neighbourhoods:
doi.org/10.1080/1360.... @lsemethodology.bsky.social

Meritocracy from below: dreams, divisions, and the struggle for merit in a stigmatised neighbourhood

The ideal of a meritocratic society continues to exert significant normative power in political and public discourse, including in discussions about marginalised spaces and neighbourhoods. However,...

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Josefina Jaureguiberry-Mondion @josejota.bsky.social · Jun 6

Join us at the @oxfordgeography.bsky.social for In Defense of Housing (2nd ed.) with @davidjmadden.bsky.social – reading group (1 July) + book launch (4 July). Organised by the Rent Cultures Network. Register: forms.gle/vYUf2F1ciPha...
@potentiaspace.bsky.social

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David Madden @davidjmadden.bsky.social · May 13

Worst musician-wanted ad on Gumtree

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David Madden @davidjmadden.bsky.social · Apr 3

Imagine what the political and economic landscape would look like if, at any point since 1999, instead of pushing the Washington Consensus, the Democrats and similar parties worldwide had actually listened to the alter-globalization movement and the left critique of free trade

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David Madden @davidjmadden.bsky.social · Apr 1

Neither of these may be precisely what you’re looking for—when I’ve researched post-USSR housing privatisation I’ve looked at articles—but Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible by P Pomerantsev and Secondhand Time by Svetlana Alexievich, while both very different, are both amazing & devastating

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Clive Lewis MP @labourlewis.bsky.social · Mar 24

Who runs Britain—its people or the markets & oligarchs?

Reeves is boxed in by bond yields.
But the truth is: we all are.

Democracy has two paths:
1. Obey markets, accept decline and creeping fascism.
2. Disrupt their power. Deepen economic & social democracy.

There is no ‘third way’ this time.

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David Madden @davidjmadden.bsky.social · Mar 11

This month is giving serious March 2020 vibes—same pervasive feeling of anxiety and sense that the world is accelerating towards unknown disaster

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David Madden @davidjmadden.bsky.social · Mar 8

Congrats Phil! I look forward to reading it

David Madden @davidjmadden.bsky.social · Mar 6

My editorial in the newest issue of CITY: Analysis of urban change, theory, action www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

There is no alternative to creating an alternative: critical urban studies in the authoritarian moment

Published in City: Analysis of Urban Change, Theory, Action (Ahead of Print, 2025)

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David Madden @davidjmadden.bsky.social · Mar 2

London twilight never gets old

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David Madden @davidjmadden.bsky.social · Feb 25

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David Madden @davidjmadden.bsky.social · Feb 19

tbh I’m starting to think that this Trump fellow might not be totally on the level

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David Madden @davidjmadden.bsky.social · Feb 6

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David Madden @davidjmadden.bsky.social · Feb 3

What happens when you try to report a post over on the Hell Site. At this rate, this may soon be what happens when Americans dial 911

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David Madden @davidjmadden.bsky.social · Jan 30

Thank you Michael, much appreciated!!

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David Madden @davidjmadden.bsky.social · Jan 28

Ha, awesome, thanks!!

David Madden @davidjmadden.bsky.social · Jan 28

Thanks!

David Madden @davidjmadden.bsky.social · Jan 28

Thank you!!

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David Madden @davidjmadden.bsky.social · Jan 28

Hot off the digital press, my article in @antipodeonline.bsky.social on Social Reproduction and the Housing Question onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Social Reproduction and the Housing Question

There is broad recognition today that there is a link between the crisis of social reproduction and the housing problem. But their precise relationship is not always clear. This paper is an attempt t...

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LSE Sociology @lsesociology.bsky.social · Jan 22

How has the battle for housing shifted away from traditional political arenas onto private crevices of the city?

At this event, Sarah El-Kazaz, @davidjmadden.bsky.social and Mai Taha will explore the world of urban planning and design practices in Istanbul and Cairo.

Politics in the crevices

Join this free LSE event discussing Politics in the Crevices by Sarah El-Kazaz.

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David Madden @davidjmadden.bsky.social · Jan 13

Likewise! Great event tonight

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