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Ten 2024 Book Recommendations (plus one)

Ten book published in 2024 and one extra, so good, that it is in the list again!

Looking through the arched window

On 11 November 2024, on Armistice Day, Cat Hobbs of the lobby Group “We Own It”, called for a truce.

A review of Spatial Inequalities and Wellbeing: A Multidisciplinary Approach, edited by Camilla Lenzi and Valeria Fedeli

Spatial Inequalities and Wellbeing is a carefully brought together collection of nine chapters written by over twenty separate authors from the regional science/studies tradition.

Changing Suicide Trends: A Shift in Regional Disparities Across the UK

In 2023, suicide rates in England & Wales reached their highest levels since 1999.

Review of The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World by David Graeber and published by Allen Lane

The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World brings together a selection of writings spanning two decades by the renowned anthropologist and anarchist David Graeber.

Rethinking tomorrow for the next generation

In many ways in the UK, we are currently at a peak of injustice and we have to choose which way to turn.

Review of ‘Wealth, Poverty and Enduring Inequality’ by Sarah Kerr, ‘Let’s talk about wealth, baby’

.. let’s talk about you and me; let’s talk about all the good things, and the bad things, that may be….

Peak Injustice and Seven Children

By 2023 the latest statistics, looked at in the round, began to suggest that it was not fanciful to believe that we had seen income inequality peak in 2018 and wealth inequality peak shortly afterwards.

Students protests and autumn 2024

All around the world, on every continent and in most major cities, university students in 2024 established peace encampments

Getting shorter and going hungrier: how children in the UK live today

…why did this happen to our children? This rise in child poverty is a change that has not been found to have occurred to the same extent anywhere else in the world, among all the places that the United Nations measures in the same way.

The 2024 UK General Election result by age group

Five years ago I drew a diagram to illustrate why age was such an important factor in determining the result of the previous, 2019, UK General Election.

Reflections on the results of the General Election

Thanks to the far-far-right standing in almost every seat in the UK 2024 General Election, Labour is now in power as the party of government.

Avoidable deaths have increased in the UK: the damning data political parties aren’t discussing

Avoidable deaths have increased in the UK: the damning data political parties aren’t discussing

Afterword: ‘I spoke to a lady from Godalming…’

In March 2024, the British Chancellor of the Exchequer, Jeremy Hunt, said:

Most People Don’t Enjoy the Theatre of Cruelty

Britain is a deeply divided nation but a majority of the public, apart from the very richest, hold views that can be interpreted as compassionate towards those struggling in society