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A ban on plastic packaging for fruit & veg would cut 13,000 tons of plastic waste, & 100,000 tons of wasted food - because bags cause people to buy more than they can use - & reduce exposure to PFAS, phthalates & bisphenols found in plastic packaging.🧵 theguardian.com/business/2024/…

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In Greening Grey Britain, The RHS revealed that between 2005 and 2015 alone, 3 million extra front gardens were paved over. This has huge implications for overheating, flooding, and biodiversity. Homeowners should be mandated to retain or create 50% 'natural' garden space.

'Utterly unsustainable': London councils now spend £4million a day on housing homeless driving some towards bankruptcy standard.co.uk/news/politics/…

📣 Approaching deadline on Call for Papers for a special issue, aimed at *understanding the importance of place in and reversing the privatisation of public services*. Deadline: November 1, 2024. academic.oup.com/cjres/pages/cf…

Two extraordinary statistics from @LondonCouncils today: - One in every 21 children in London now lives in temporary accommodation. - London authorities spend £4 million on temporary accommodation every single day.

“I’m trying to think of any possible justification for paying William, a 42-year old public servant, more than £23m and of course there is none. If you question it, the whole edifice crumbles” My column prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/monarchy…

My The Guardian story: More than 1m of the UK's poorest households to get £420 budget boost in universal credit change theguardian.com/society/2024/o…

Positive first step to tackling deep poverty in this Budget. Debt deductions from Universal Credit are a key driver of food bank need & this will ease the burden. Also great to see government frame this as a first step on a longer journey. 1/3 theguardian.com/society/2024/o…

New analysis Andy Pike and I published on Friday revealed that authorities are forecasting a £9.3 billion deficit by 2026-27. Based on their Medium Term Financial Strategy, only 14 authorities estimate they'll balance their budget:

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How decades of neglect deepened the decline of our former coalfields | Thatcher may have closed the mines, but the governments that followed also had a hand in the decline of former coalfield areas | John Cole Mia Gray - mainly posting on Bluesky yorkshirebylines.co.uk/region/how-dec…

Another amazing publication!! Well done Coco Huggins and Mia Gray - mainly posting on Bluesky for this piece, which is so important in light of the ongoing challenges of austerity. CHASM, will be of particular interest for your researchers.

I wish the media cared as much about the 131k staff vacancies in social care as they do about the 0.3% of millionaires who left the UK. Imagine all those column inches dedicated to thinking about how we tackle chronic low pay & insecure work in the sector taxjustice.net/press/milliona…

Imagine what could be done with this revenue.

40 years after the miners' strike, austerity still haunts the UK’s coalfields. New RSA blog by David Etherington, Mia Gray - mainly posting on Bluesky & Lisa Buckner shows £32.6bn cut from these communities since 2010. Local gov gap now: £447M. Read: bit.ly/40d9jSm Regional Studies Association