Geography and Climate Breakdown
Geography and Climate Breakdown, by Danny Dorling, The Oxford Magazine, No. 402 pp.11-12, November 30th, (eight week, Michaelmas term)
What Brexit tells us about the British
Danny Dorling giving the Institute of Applied Ethics Public Lecture, University of Hull, November 29th 2018, introduced by Colin Tyler.
Housing crisis, design feature or design flaw?
Why is the UK so bad at housing people? One reason is that some things, big bulky one-off ‘goods’ like heart surgery, a university degree and a home are very badly allocated when you mostly use the market to allocate them.
Social Inequality – The Need to Develop Inclusive Housing and Sustainable Communities
A keynote lecture given at the Canadian National Housing Conference, Ottawa, 22 November 2018.
Brexit and Britain’s Radical Right
Two decades ago, leaving the European Union was a minority pursuit. Now British politics is defined by Brexit.
In Focus: The Revival of Two-Party Politics in Britain
Benjamin D. Hennig and Danny Dorling plot the re-emergence of Conservative and Labour dominance in British politics:
Brexit coincided with peak inequality – causes and effect?
Brexit may be key to the future of inequality in the UK, and inequality may have been key to making Brexit . Growing inequality created so much, from tax-evader-vote-funders to mass discontent.
Where will our kids live and how will they afford it?
We used to plan our cities. In most European countries they still plan their cities. What would a plan for the future of Oxford look like that was sustainable, environmentally responsible and affordable?
Jubilee 2022: Writing off the student debt
The unjust student debt can be written off – if we choose to have a fairer society. Don’t let anyone convince you this is not so.
The Brexit vote, declining health and immigration
People voted Leave most often in those parts of England which had the worse health trends, which saw the greatest rises in mortality rates in the two years after the vote, and to which the least immigrants had come in the year before the vote.
The 2018 autumn budget, hypothecation and taxation
Philip Hammond delivers his budget on Monday 29th October 2018. He may be tempted to suggest that any new taxes he introduced are hypothecated. Is this a good idea?
Inequality and Housing: A new economy for the many
What policies could be enacted to end homelessness in England, to ensure decent quality affordable housing, to prevent speculation and to control greed?
Finland, the UK and 7 Maps of how the human world is changing
Life expectancy is rising in Finland – unlike in the UK. What’s going right?
Inequality and Social Deprivation: Examples of what goes wrong from the UK
I’m interested in inequality and what is happening with that.
Peak Inequality – My Fair London and Oxford
Institutions must recognise the extent to which they are partly responsible for their cities and country’s problems.