Danny Dorling: Speaking for the motion: This House Would End University Tuition Fees
The current system of university student funding in England is a confidence trick.
Could 2018 be the peak of the crisis in health in the UK or will 2019 be even worse?
Since 2011, something unusual and, in modern British history, unprecedented has happened to life expectancy: it has flatlined.
Rule Britannia and Stupidity,
A 15 minute talk on the Brexit Referendum of 2016, Rule Britannia in 2017, and stupidity in 2018, given by Danny Dorling at St Georges, Bristol, as part of a 5×15 event, April 16th 2018.
Review of Branco Milanovic’s Global Inequality: A new approach for the Age of Globalization
The first words on the inside cover of this book announce that it has been written by one of the world’s leading economists.
Why we need an anti-war government
We know they used to keep plans for war secret from us. We know just how wrong they were in the past. So what are we not being told today?
The Demography of Inequality
Re: Rise in mortality in England and Wales in first seven weeks of 2018: Rapid response by Lu Hiam and Danny Dorling, published in the British Medical Journal, March 23rd 2018
Recent deaths in prisons and for people in mental health detention in the UK
Decent rights, trust, and fairness all require greater economic equality.
Blame education’s ‘macho leader’ cult for shocking gender pay gap
For years schools have been sending pupils the message that women are worth less than men. It’s our moral duty to fix that.
Brexit: The result of rising inequality, not rising immigration
Immigration has been suggested as the reason for why a narrow majority of people in the UK voted for Brexit. The concept was used to stoke up fear in areas of low immigration.
Top ‘Remuneration’: Have we reached Peak Inequality?
A fall in inequality can begin without policy and political changes, but they help sustain it.
Rapid rise in mortality in England and Wales in early 2018 – an investigation is needed
Until recently we had been using the rising profits of undertakers to gauge how unusual recent rises in mortality have been. However, we can no longer do that.
Both adult and infant mortality now rise in the UK
In March 2018 we learnt that, in contrast to all other countries in Europe, both adult and infant mortality are now rising in the UK making an already awful situation worse.
The public health record of the 2010-2018 UK Government
In the eight years since the May 2010 general election, the health of people living in the United Kingdom has faltered.
May and Cameron have a terrible record on health, and it could be cutting lives short
Life expectancy in the UK has stalled. In many places, and for more vulnerable groups, it is now falling – on-line report in the New Statesman (March 2nd 2018).
Housing prices in the UK and London fall, homelessness rises, more children than ever sleep in B&Bs
The Nationwide Building Society has reported today, March 1st 2018, that prices fell by 0.3% last month, crushing expectations of a rise” Commentators explain: “Brexit and a weaker economic outlook reinforced a slowdown in the property market”.