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”.
UK Higher Education: Botched loan privatisations and the highest fees in the world
As Brexit looms closer, various schemes for Britain to “find new markets” will be touted.
Utopia for Realists and How We Can Get There
Utopia for Realists ends with its author professing admiration for Friedrich Hayek and Milton Friedman.
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.
130,000 children homeless after Christmas 2017. Why?
Our housing system is in a mess. A child looking down from the window of a tower block on to Britain’s streets today will see the widest and clearest picture of what is getting rapidly worse.
The current state of Inequality
When inequality is high people lose face, they lose confidence, they suffer from comparisons in which it is implied that the vast majority warrant little or no respect.
The Future of Britain
Brexit Vote 2016, Hung Parliament 2017, what in 2018?
On Martin Luther King Day 2018: Child poverty rates still rising in the USA and UK
Fifty years ago Martin Luther King argued that on poverty: “the programs of the past all have another common failing—they are indirect. Each seeks to solve poverty by first solving something else.” He argued for a guaranteed citizen’s income to eradicate poverty.
Trends in the behaviour of the super-rich: Swiss watch sales
Towards the end of January 2018, 60 heads of state or government, roughly 300 other political leaders, and at least 1000 of the world’s highest paid chief executive officers, media celebrities and the like will meet again at Davos in Switzerland. How are they likely to view changing world events and what might matter most…
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New (2018) interactive graphics of the impact of inequality
Researchers have known for some time that high economic inequality has a detrimental effect on peoples’ lives. However, with the release of new data we can now compare all of the richest countries of the world alongside the states of the USA. The results are shocking.
120,000 additional premature deaths in the UK 2010-2017
On Thursday 16th November 2017 the Journal BMJ Open published an article which concluded that severe public spending cuts in the UK had contributed to causing 120,000 additional premature deaths between 2010 and 2017.
England’s embarrassing tuition fees
As pay scandals continue to embarrass British higher education, with university chiefs receiving eye-watering salaries and golden handshakes, it’s time to ask: why can’t we be more like Germany?