Category: News

Dangerous Times: Holding and losing power

These are dangerous times. Ken Loach has argued that we should vote to remain in the EU because the alternative of a rise in far-right politics is so very dangerous. I, and many others agree

Listen to “Fairness and the City”

Danny Dorling speaking on Fairness and the City – A Better Politics, University of Brighton’s Festival of Social Science Annual Lecture, Brighton, May 19th, 2016

Inequalities and Human Welfare

Keynote lecture at the Human Welfare Conference

London’s New Mayor And The Housing Crisis

Danny speaking with Afshin Rattansi on Russia Today’s Going Underground

The EU – ‘Should we stay or should we go?’

Annual “Europe in Question” lecture, LSE

Brexit has its roots in the British Empire

So how do we explain it to the young? (by Sally Tomlinson and Danny Dorling) The EU referendum is the last throes of Empire working its way out of our systems.

A Better Politics: book launch

Launch event with Richard Wilkinson and Rupa Huq MP

The Geography of our Future: Understanding the consequences of the Anthropocene

Royal Geographical Society Monday night lecture with Mark Maslin and Danny Dorling

Why Britain’s class system will have to change

Britain is still a society deeply divided by class. The same schools, established church and universities dominate public life, but under the façade of immobility, changes are afoot.

Inequality, the Panama Papers, and the power of a good map

The Panama Papers revealed what a few suspected for some time, but many people did not believe – that a large proportion of wealthy people were trying very hard to avoid paying much of their tax.

The Panama Papers and London Housing Market

BBC World Service World Business Report

Happiness and government, Good parenting

Happiness – Should the government promote it? Danny Dorling, Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography at the University of Oxford, talks to Laurie Taylor about the necessity to inspire a better politics

Geography, in Sheffield, 3.30pm Saturday April 16th, 2016

Carl Lee and Danny Dorling talk about geography, what it means to them and why it might be of interest to you: 3.30pm Saturday April 16th 2016. Free entry, Blackwell’s Bookshop, Sheffield University

“Geography” A New book by Danny Dorling and Carl Lee

A low resolution PDF of the book is available by clicking here: Download PDF (2 MB) On 25 January 2015 the MSC Oscar, a Panamanian flagged ship laden with goods, set sail from the port of Dalian in China.