Category: News

What geography can teach us about inequality

Geography is the subject that shows you how everything is connected to everything else.

The proportion of adults reporting poor health in the UK has more than doubled since 2010

There has been a rapid deterioration in self-reported health in recent years

Excess deaths in 2015 may be linked to failures in health and social care

Excess deaths in 2015 may be linked to failures in health and social care

The Geography of a rapid rise in elderly mortality in England and Wales, 2014-15

Since at least the early 1900s almost all affluent nations in the world have continually experienced improvements in human longevity.

Annual Politics Lecture: Leeds Beckett University

I am always surprised that more people in the UK do not know that we now have the greatest economic inequality of any large country in Europe

Reducing Inequality: Reasons for Hope for 2017

If high and growing inequality is benefitting fewer and fewer people in the UK and the USA we should be glad that more people now recognise this

Equality in Europe, the landscape, battle and war

Equality in Europe, the landscape, battle and war, public lecture by Danny Dorling, St Cross College, Oxford, January 24th.

Housing crisis grows – first fall in home movers for five years

On January 20th 2017 the BBC announced the first fall in the numbers of people moving home in the last five years. The reason was the growing housing crisis.

Migration, Europe, bias in research, health, education and housing

It’s remarkable how little research is available comparing the success of different countries’ immigration policies.

House prices in London are falling

In mid-December the Land Registry revealed its latest data on housing prices. These showed that average prices had fallen in five London boroughs in October, up from three in September and just one borough in August.

Review of Utopia by Thomas More, introduced by China Miéville and concluded by Ursula Le Guin

In 1968 Ursula Le Guin wrote the Wizard of Earthsea for me. I knew it, as I am sure thousands of other children also knew.

Don’t mention this around the Christmas table: Brexit, inequality and the demographic divide

Brexit voting patterns appear to divide along the lines of age (above all else), then by social attitudes, and then by education

The Creation of Inequality: Myths of Potential and Ability

The old myth about the ability and variability of potential in children is a comforting myth

Analysing the regional geography of poverty, austerity and inequality in Europe

This paper presents a human cartographic approach to the analysis of the impact of austerity and the economic crisis across Europe’s regions.

In straitened circumstances: A review of Austerity Blues

The Left are busy looking back instead of devising laws to address inequalities.