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The attempt to financialize psychedelics has collided with the unruliness of these substances both as therapeutic assets and as vectors of cultural resistance. Our article of the week traces the rise and fall of commercial psychedelics.

By Sandy B. Hager in @finandsoc.bsky.social

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Common Wealth @cmmonwealth.bsky.social · 20d

In Britain, every time you...

— turn on a tap
— flip a light switch
— board a train or bus
— post a letter
— drop your child at nursery

... you take part in a system designed to extract wealth & concentrate power.

🧵 From cradle to grave, this is how a failed experiment has shaped your life.

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Jon Silver @invisiblemapper.bsky.social · 26d

I got asked to write about the Gaza Riviera Plan + argue it should be understood within the settler colonial logic of elimination + made possible through urbicide and expulsion

theconversation.com/the-gaza-riv...

The ‘Gaza Riviera’ is a fantasy plan that relies on urbicide and expulsion

The leaked redevelopment plan pays homage to mega projects in the Gulf.

theconversation.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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Common Wealth @cmmonwealth.bsky.social · Aug 4

💰 How much public wealth do you think was given away for free via Right to Buy?

1bn? 10bn? 100bn?

Try 200 BILLION pounds.

🧵 Here's how Britain’s most infamous housing policy became its biggest housing disaster — and near the largest privatisation in British history.

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Tim White @timwhite100.bsky.social · Jul 17

Thanks Phillip!

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Julien Migozzi @jmigozzi.bsky.social · Jul 11

How does digital capitalism affect wealth inequalities and class formation? This is a question I answer in this new paper, focusing on South Africa.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

SCORING HIGH, PAYING UP, GATING IN: Middle‐class Formation and Asset Inequalities under Digital Capitalism in South Africa

This article examines how modern class dynamics become intertwined with automated classifications and data-driven regimes of value creation under digital capitalism by demonstrating how housing marke....

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Tim White @timwhite100.bsky.social · Jul 10

Yes, absolutely- I have been meaning to reach out!

Tim White @timwhite100.bsky.social · Jul 10

Thank you, Vincent!

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Tim White @timwhite100.bsky.social · Jul 10

This one escalated...

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Daniela Gabor @danielagabor.bsky.social · Jul 10

last week, I was in an expert hearing on housing at European Parliament.

I told MEPs that I worry the Commission's European Affordable Housing Plan, in partnership w European Investment Bank, may morph into another derisking vehicle for institutional landlords.

Tim White @timwhite100.bsky.social · Jul 7

I have an article in the Guardian today on how finance capitalism is wreaking havoc on housing across Europe www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Across Europe, the financial sector has pushed up house prices. It's a political timebomb | Tim White

We’ve been living in a great experiment: can finance provide basic human rights such as housing? The answer is increasingly no, says researcher and writer Tim White

www.theguardian.com

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Common Wealth @cmmonwealth.bsky.social · Jul 8

Foster care in England is now a business model.

Private equity firms are cashing in on vulnerable kids while carers earn less than £1ph.

This is what happens when you turn public care into a market.

📊 @sachahilhorst.bsky.social & @sophieflinders.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Nearly a quarter of foster places in England provided by private equity-backed firms

Experts raise alarm over ‘commodification’ of vulnerable children as independent fostering agencies make millions in profit

www.theguardian.com

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Tim White @timwhite100.bsky.social · Jul 9

It draws on the excellent work of those including Adam Almeida @jiegson.bsky.social @matthieuvogt.bsky.social @emilbandoni.bsky.social @justinkadi.bsky.social Selim Banabak @leilanifarha.bsky.social @brettchristophers.bsky.social @sebastiankohl.bsky.social @danielagabor.bsky.social

Tim White @timwhite100.bsky.social · Jul 9

Congrats Adam!!

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Tim White @timwhite100.bsky.social · Jul 7

Thanks Brian!

Tim White @timwhite100.bsky.social · Jul 7

Thank you Neil!

Tim White @timwhite100.bsky.social · Jul 7

I have an article in the Guardian today on how finance capitalism is wreaking havoc on housing across Europe www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Across Europe, the financial sector has pushed up house prices. It's a political timebomb | Tim White

We’ve been living in a great experiment: can finance provide basic human rights such as housing? The answer is increasingly no, says researcher and writer Tim White

www.theguardian.com

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Benjamin Braun @benbraun.bsky.social · Jul 7

"In Ireland, nearly half of all units delivered since 2017 were purchased by investment funds. Across Sweden, the share of private rental apartments with institutional investors as landlords has swelled to 24%. In Berlin, €40bn of housing assets are now in institutional portfolios, 10% of the total"

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · Jul 7

There's no place for institutional finance in rental markets. It's a predatory extraction machine that robs the poor and middle.

But one thing I'd add: we should stop calling these people "investors". They don't "invest". They buy up and milk existing assets. 🧵
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Across Europe, the financial sector has pushed up house prices. It's a political timebomb | Tim White

We’ve been living in a great experiment: can finance provide basic human rights such as housing? The answer is increasingly no, says researcher and writer Tim White

www.theguardian.com

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Prof Katherine Brickell @kbrickell.bsky.social · Jul 3

Proofs checked, let me take you inside a national scandal…

Debt Trap Nation: Family Homelessness in a Failing State

…out World Homelessness Day (10 October 2025)

PRE-ORDER here www.hive.co.uk/Product/Kath...

@agendapub.bsky.social

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Roger Burrows @rogerjburrows.bsky.social · Jun 30

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Are rents affordable in Amsterdam? Not if you are a newcomer | Amber Howard

The city was once the pinnacle of inclusivity, with working- and middle-class people alike living in social housing – then the private landlords arrived, says social-policy researcher Amber Howard

www.theguardian.com

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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,...

doi.org

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Cody Hochstenbach @codyhochstenbach.bsky.social · May 2

I received these comics by @miroborn.bsky.social on growing up in a stigmatized neighbourhood and subsequent social mobility in the mail today. Great example of knowledge dissemination!

Online here: www.anthonymiroborn.com/comic

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