Mia Gray - mainly posting on Bluesky

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: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

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Free to download -- Handbook of Labour Geography (Andy Herrod editor). elgaronline.com/edcollbook/boo…

It was a real pleasure to write a chapter in the Handbook of Labour Geography. The editor, Andy Herod, was a joy to work with and the collection itself looks great. e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/handb…

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: bit.ly/40d9jSm @regstud

Imagine what could be done with this revenue.

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…

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.

@Sanvanlan Thanks Sander!

This looks brilliant: place-based solidarity as (temporarily/partial) resistance to austerity.

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.

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: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

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:

My @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…

“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…

'Utterly unsustainable': London councils now spend £4million a day on housing homeless driving some towards bankruptcy #Echobox=1729751341-1" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">standard.co.uk/news/politics/…

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.