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I wrote quite a personal piece about racism now and racism then. Have a read…. tortoisemedia.com/2024/10/04/ana…

NEW: we may have passed peak obesity 🎉📈📉🙏 In what might be one of the most significant trends I have ever charted, the US obesity rate fell last year.

Interesting account of recent local politics in #Middlesbrough. Middlesbrough chief: ‘We’ve now got a clear direction’ lgcplus.com/politics/workf…

When you welcome International students to Middlesbrough Infant Hercules style you find that there is a wonderful, powerful and positive sense of community that sings, laughs and...dances in the faces of the bigoted anger shown by some in August. THIS is Middlesbrough. It won't

17-year-old Chris Rigg has now scored as many Championship goals as Jude Bellingham did - in 11 fewer appearances and about half as many minutes. #SAFC

Countries need to be cautious not to overly rely on Special Economic Zones (#SEZs) as a ‘magic potion’ for #development. SEZ policies will not work in every context nor will copying other countries’ experiences guarantee success. doi.org/10.1080/003434…

Don’t wanna sound like a pessimistic nimby, but why is Leazes Park seen as an easy landgrab? I feel uneasy privatising public green spaces, especially when this place is vital for hospital patients over the road for respite. The whole “new ground” discourse is frustrating

EXCLUSIVE: A 23-year-old mother and her baby are being 'forced' to move 250 miles north to a County Durham town by a London Borough Council, The Northern Echo can reveal. The mum describes feeling 'threatened' and made to choose between homelessness and relocation.

Most authorities - if not all - have now submitted their Expressions of Interest for a devolution settlement. I've got some different results on my scorecard, but here's how @LGCplus has mapped them:

'The right still leads the policy discourse in the UK today. Its nostrums are the common currency not only of the Conservative Party, but also the Labour government.' Thoughts on the continuing significance of market fundamentalism and bad Tory history newstatesman.com/ideas/2024/10/…

Read our joint letter to Tees Valley Mayor Ben Houchen with GMB Union and Unite the union: join a union. “There are no easy solutions to the challenges at British Steel, and the unions are working to assess the best way forward with our own experts and with the workforce.” Read the full

1/x Almost a third of the UK's office stock is potentially redundant - the conclusion of Montagu Evans' first piece of major research, Future Shock. montagu-evans.co.uk/research/execu…

If devo agenda is to take a different (sustainable, inclusive) course, then also centre-local relations must do the same. As long as Treasury orthodoxy & top-down impositions persist, no real change will happen. inews.co.uk/news/politics/…

Italy is a beautiful country made up of ugly places that nobody cares about. The trap of the so-called “Bellitalia” hides this plain fact in a sneaky and subtle way. My latest for "Unruly natures" unrulynatures.ch/The-everyday-l… Andrés Rodríguez-Pose John Tomaney Adam Tooze

BOWLED HIM FIRST BALL! Chris Woakes bowls Abdullah Shafique with an absolute beauty 😍