Caste in Indian cities: Why urbanisation has not brought equality  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HOmXiaE0Fg  Frontline Magazine Vakulabharanam challenges the popular belief that urbanisation dissolves caste hierarchies. Drawing on census data and comparative urban research, he shows how Indian cities remain deeply segregated by caste, class, and religion even when they appear socially mixed on the surface... Why caste does not disappear in cities and how it reorganises itself
-How urban segregation works through housing, labour, and credit markets
-What mixed neighbourhoods can (and cannot) achieve
-Drawing parallels between caste segregation in India and racial segregation in the US
-The historical roots of urban inequality in cities like Hyderabad and Mumbai
-Why “world-class” city visions often deepen exclusion
-What fighting caste discrimination in cities realistically looks like today

‘A colossal own goal’: Trump’s exit from global climate treaties will have little effect outside US  https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jan/09/a-colossal-own-goal-trumps-exit-from-global-climate-treaties-will-have-little-effect-outside-us  Fiona Harvey and Oliver Milman  Investment in low-carbon forms of energy is now above $2tn a year, dwarfing the $1tn spent on fossil fuels. Renewable energy alone grew 15% last year.. Low-carbon power makes up more than half of the generation capacity of China and India, and China’s exports of low-carbon goods and services topped $20bn in a single month last year.

Under Trump, the US risks being left on the sidelines – a position that Kerry called a “gift to China”.  .. Meanwhile, people living in the US will be confronted with increasing frequency with the effects of the climate crisis. Wildfires last January in California forced the evacuation of more than 200,000 people. Farmers are struggling with pests, drought and floods. Homes in some areas are becoming uninsurable, and extreme weather cost the US at least $115bn last year.

Who will fill the climate-data void left by the Trump administration? https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41238699/  Nature  2025 Nov 14.  Brittany Janis, Cathy Richards

 Neoliberalism is dying: Mark Carney’s Davos speech confirmed it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMTQNI3BV90
Richard J Murphy
  Neoliberalism wasn’t an accident. It was a deliberate ideological project built around the myth that “freedom through markets” would deliver freedom for everyone. Instead, it delivered:    rent extraction, precarity, instability, a hollowed-out state & rising inequality and insecurity

Neoliberalism created extraction and not prosperity. It undermined democracy. It must be replaced with the politics of care. We must restore social purpose to the state as a consequence, and we must rebuild public services and public trust.

https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/01/25/neoliberalism-is-dying-whats-next/  https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/downloads/

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