Researchers at the Universities of Liverpool, Oxford and Glasgow revisited a study carried out 175 years ago which compared the health and life expectancy of people in different parts of the United Kingdom, including Liverpool, to see if its findings still held true.
The most important benefit of the equality effect may be that it leads us to behave in ways that are less environmentally damaging.
Buried deep in a note towards the end of a recent bulletin published by the British government’s statistical agency was a startling revelation.
One week ago today, on Wednesday 22 November 2017, the Chancellor, Philip Hammond, gave a budget speech that was designed to confuse and distract.
London, November 2017: Research linking cuts in government health spending to higher mortality rates in England has been published in the British Medical Journal
Alongside the human costs, cuts have hurt our economy, and we’ve now reached a dangerous tipping point, say Joseph Stiglitz, Ha-Joon Chang and 111 others
Almost all European countries both have lower income inequality than the UK and also ensure by law that tenants who rent their homes enjoy much longer tenancies.
Life expectancy for women in the UK is now lower than in Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland.
What does the world look like when you map it using data?
Open letter to Commission President Junker and European Council Presidents Tusk, 31 October 2017
The current system of university student funding in England is a confidence trick.
It is hard to believe that it is any coincidence that by far the most economically unequal large country in the European Union, the UK, was the one that narrowly voted to leave it in 2016.
Seminar by Danny Dorling in a series helping to celebrate 25 years of Development Studies in SOAS, University of London, given on October 17th, 2017
The world isn’t a plum pudding anymore. It’s time for Britain to stop pretending it can carve it up—and scrap its Imperialist approach to post-Brexit trade.
Inequality has become the defining issue of our times. It is what makes the years we are currently living through so different to those of our parents and grandparents.