Mia Gray - mainly posting on Bluesky
@_mia_gray
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Professor of economic geography at the University of Cambridge. Researches austerity, labour, debt, gender & sustainable regional economies. @mia-gray.bsky.soc
Joined October 2015
Our new paper on "Place-based solidarity: Crisis, austerity and the devolution of responsibility" authors: Coco Huggins and Mia Gray is now available free online: https://t.co/bstm4Cd4Tf
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Our new paper on "Place-based solidarity: Crisis, austerity and the devolution of responsibility" authors: Coco Huggins and Mia Gray is now available free online: https://t.co/bstm4Cd4Tf
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40 years after the miners' strike, austerity still haunts the UK’s coalfields. New RSA blog by David Etherington, @_mia_gray & Lisa Buckner shows £32.6bn cut from these communities since 2010. Local gov gap now: £447M. Read: https://t.co/mpAo2o76GC
@regstud
regionalstudies.org
The 40th Anniversary of the miners’ strike has encouraged considerable academic and media attention on the nature and lessons of the strike (Hendy,2024), but less on the long-term economic and social...
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Imagine what could be done with this revenue.
🚨BREAKING HMRC missed out on around £47bn in taxes — from errors, avoidance and evasion— according to its annual "Tax Gap" report, released today. Here's why that is likely an underestimate, and why the real gap is likely to keep on growing... 🧵1/8
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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
30 news pieces a day in 2024 on non-existent exodus A millionaire exodus widely reported by news outlets around the world in 2024, and credited for the UK Labour government’s decision to weaken tax...
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Another amazing publication!! Well done Coco Huggins and @_mia_gray for this piece, which is so important in light of the ongoing challenges of austerity. @UoBCHASM, will be of particular interest for your researchers.
Our new paper on "Place-based solidarity: Crisis, austerity and the devolution of responsibility" authors: Coco Huggins and Mia Gray is now available free online: https://t.co/bstm4Cd4Tf
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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
https://t.co/46DqXXcpep
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
Thatcher may have closed the mines, but the governments that followed also had a hand in the decline of former coalfield areas
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We argue: •Place-based solidarity helps us understand how a shared commitment to place can keep services running under austerity. •Place-based solidarity has tensions and limits. It is not currently a sustainable solution to the retreat of the state.
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What is local government financialisation? Four empirical channels to clarify the roles of local government debates paper by @HaHasenberger
https://t.co/aRAZuOgZnY
#OpenAccess #financialisation #LocalGovernment
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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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My @guardian story: More than 1m of the UK's poorest households to get £420 budget boost in universal credit change
theguardian.com
Exclusive: move will cap amount that can be deducted from benefit payments to repay short-term loans and debts
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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 https://t.co/QTmI3ziSD2
theguardian.com
Exclusive: move will cap amount that can be deducted from benefit payments to repay short-term loans and debts
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“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
The view of the monarchy in the UK remains overwhelmingly positive. But the public deserve full transparency on the family’s staggering wealth
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'Utterly unsustainable': London councils now spend £4million a day on housing homeless driving some towards bankruptcy https://t.co/T80YuIYspu
standard.co.uk
Total average temporary accommodation bill for the capital’s councils was £114million each month in the year to April - a 68% rise
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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.
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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.
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📣 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. https://t.co/QLEuQzpMJC
academic.oup.com
Judith Clifton, Ron Martin, Mia Gray and David McDonald The provision of essential public services—water, energy, health, housing, education, transport, infras
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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.🧵 https://t.co/HPa5ppr3or
theguardian.com
Anti-waste charity Wrap wants ban on 21 items including tomatoes, apples, potatoes, bananas and carrots
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