#Inequalities

Our letter published in the @Telegraph today, expressing our concerns about Sunday's leaked announcement re. restructuring PHE mid-pandemic. Signed by 290+ #publichealth registrars (~1/2 Drs) in EnglandStory: https://www.telegraph.co.uk
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The world today faces a crisis on the scale of the 1930s. Capitalism is trapped in a long-term crisis. Financialisation and austerity are shrinking demand, deepening the depression, and widening
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Today it's easy to assume that the massive inequalities, unemployment, poverty, and lack of social transformation are a result of "corruption". That's the main line being pushed by those who
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Answer me honestly, why do you care if a person, 10 people, or even seemingly a whole fandom dislikes something you like, or likes something you don’t? All I see
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I was speaking to my team yesterday about the dangers of balkanising poverty into 'fuel poverty', 'food poverty', 'digital poverty' etc. and today i saw this article so i wanted
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Peter Beadle on why he joined in founding CQuID:"Our current system discourages people from becoming involved in their own governance. Institutions that exist and should be making it possible for
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Cuba Is currently going through a monetary change. The process is called "Tarea ordenamiento" this process is meant to phase out the CUC$ (Convertible cuban peso) and to also reorder
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2020 can't end soon enough, but my sociology colleagues and I @OSC_SciencesPo have been analyzing covid inequalities from this past year. We've written a year-in-review research report. Here's the THREAD
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I want to talk about what I’m calling ‘empirical nationalism’ that I’m starting to see among some students—from undergrad to prospective PhDs. Rightly, for their essays, students, especially Black students,
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New govt commission on racial inequalities is being set up by a No 10 adviser who has cast doubt on existence of institutional racism and condemned previous such inquiries. It
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1/ Since taking on the role of Green group spokesperson for Health and Adult Social Care last year, I've learned a great deal about Public Health. Public health work covers
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A thread: Few days back, HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal wrote about ‘How to battle depression’. Piggy backing on SSR’s death, he spoke like a true boomer chacha who is detatched
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You can't understand what's going on today without understanding "Cultural Marxism". The leftist movement on the streets, and in the "green rooms", boardrooms, and classrooms today is an outgrowth of
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As we can see, Lexit isn't working. But I wonder if I'm not sometimes too unkind to the Lexiters. After all, the dominant strand in political philosophy (Rawls) is pretty
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Current Evidence on Learning in Lockdown- A Thread 1/ The extent of ‘learning losses’ Latest @EducEndowFoundn study shows after the first #covid lockdown all Year 2 children were, on average,
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Why do inequality and deprivation produce high crime and low trust?Our humble proposition with @danielnettle is out today: http://nature.com/articles/s41598-020-80897-8#code-availability. Here’s a little thread to give a flavour of the th
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