Things fall apart
According to the Behavioural Insights Team in a report commissioned by the GLA’s Violence Reduction Unit, the strongest predictor of crime in London is income deprivation, with 80 per cent of recorded crimes in London occurring in the most income-deprived areas.
Social Value Index: Building the Case for the Democratic Commons in Tottenham
Moreover, for those on modest and low incomes, the imposition of austerity policies from 2010 has meant that residents continue to experience lowering standards of living due to the considerable scaling back of essential programmes, services and support that was hitherto provided by councils. [4] In the context of this inequality, cash-strapped loc... See more
Social Value Index: Building the Case for the Democratic Commons in Tottenham
Council debt 2025: Scale of local authority deficits revealed - BBC News
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We can’t address the decline in empathy without addressing the decline in attention. Empathy requires a degree of sustained focus:
Paying attention to an experience someone is sharing
Recalling experiencing a similar emotional response
Sitting with your own and ... See more
Dr. Samaiya Mushtaqsubstack.comThere are 1m people living in these mission critical neighbourhoods. Half of adults in mission critical neighbourhoods (375,000) are economically inactive. Moreover, 40% of working-age people in mission critical neighbourhoods have no qualifications – more than double the national average. Productivity is 40% lower in mission critical neighbourhood... See more
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We replaced attending to the proximate and tangible with attending to the distant and abstract. And we replaced engaging with our rich local cultures, instead engaging with the monoculture of consumerism.
representation without redistribution – of power, resources or decision-making – is not justice
