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It might not be sexy, but the answer to the endemic housing crisis not just in Britain but across the West is something relatively simple: effective property taxes

Something went very wrong in the UK, and especially in England, during the 1980s, 1990s, 2000s and 2010s. Housing became too expensive for young adults to afford and then, by 2012, we made half of them take out huge debts to go to university. It’s time to fix both problems.

Why do people vote for politicians and rhetoric which actually puts their own lives at risk and what can be done about it?

On the evening of 17 June at 7.30pm Oxford Civic Society held a public debate in the Assembly Room of the Town Hall on the effect on Oxfordshire of the planned Expressway and related issues.

Penny Bickle, David Wengrow, Kate Pickett and Danny Dorling speaking at the Festival of Ideas, Ron Cooke Hub, University of York, on June 10th 2019.

The vote to leave the EU was the last gasp of the old empire working its way out of the British psyche.

Brexit has been a disaster with silver linings. The process of trying to leave the EU and the end result could finally jolt the British elite out of their superior complacency, and thereby make the country a fairer and more humane place.

In Japan, I once met a man who was starving. He was proud and he was dying.

Some ideas to share with current London-based Social Science PhD students.

We believe there are issues of concern over the governance of the UK’s largest private pension, the Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS).

The collapse of Britain’s empire in the decades after World War II was followed by a huge growth and then persistence of extreme economic inequality.

Sally Tomlinson and Danny Dorling speaking at the Hay Festival, on the Oxfam Moot Stage, May 25th 2019 – the day after Theresa May resigned.

How did it come to this? What is happening to Britain and why? Why now? Why such an enormous mess?

With gratitude to the woman who founded the Brexit party for coming along and asking the world’s longest ever question. Hopefully you are intrigued.

With gratitude to the man from the Stoke area who asked the first question, after listening to this argument, and said: ‘You put me right’.