The spurious link between immigration and increased crime
In the era of Brexit attempts have repeatedly been made to associate recent immigrants with criminality; and despite all evidence to the contrary this slur continues.
A Very British Legacy: Attitude and Brexit
Brexit may be key to the future of inequality in the UK, and inequality may have been key to making Brexit possible.
Brexit, Demography, Geography and the British
Brexit’s all about Geography; it’s all about borders; it’s all about issues of identity; and a lot of it is about history.
Who spends more wisely: Individuals or government?
Will 2019 see an end to austerity? Last year, the Chancellor announced that the ‘era of austerity is finally coming to an end’
Brexit and Empire: two days after the first ‘meaningful vote’
What is happening with Brexit? Why is it happening and what are the reasons behind the reasons for how the British are behaving?
Annual Report of the Chief Medical Officer, 2018, Chapter 6: Demography
The UK has fallen down the rankings significantly … for life expectancy at birth. In the most recent two years ONS has reported statistically significant increases in infant mortality across England for all infants.
Brexit: Remain and the Unicorn
We gave people a choice, back in 2016 between carrying on with David Cameron, with life as it was, crap as it was, or a unicorn. The unicorn was Leave. The unicorn was a promise: “Leave and everything will get better”.
Short Cuts (homelessness)
Today, one person in every two hundred in England and Wales is homeless – either sleeping rough or living in temporary accommodation. In London the proportion is even higher: one in 53. In Kensington and Chelsea it’s one in 29: in that borough alone 5,263 people are homeless.
Ireland: When everyone you know buys art, or a sculpture, to upgrade their life
People protest when they can take no more, but also when there is a glimmer of hope: When it becomes obvious that there is enough to go around
Things Fall apart: Brexit, immigration, crime, health and wages
As Bobby Duffy explained in November 2018, when it comes to Brexit and our understanding of what is going on, we live in a remarkably divided society today
Globalisation: how Britain fits in
How important is Britain in the world today, digitally, socially and financially? A talk by Danny Dorling looking at globalisation in the context of the digital social world and consider key trends in development and global inequality.
Equality and what Brexit tells us about the British
Whatever kind of Brexit occurs – hard, soft, or none – people are going to be asking questions for many years about why this has happened and what it means.
The Distribution of Wealth – Growing Inequality?
A review of ‘The Distribution of Wealth – Growing Inequality?’ By Michael Schneider, Mike Pottenger and J. E. King, The History of Economics review, Volume 68, No. 1, pp.75-78, by Danny Dorling.
The UK Government’s misplaced prevention agenda
Fixing the health crisis is a choice for politicians, not people
The Blank Slate – Toby Young and Social Mobility
It was the night before Christmas, and just a few days before his well-documented fall from grace – in response to the publication of an academic paper Sally Tomlinson and I had published a year earlier, the Conservative government’s advisor, Toby Young, posted this Tweet: