Brexit and Empire: two days after the first ‘meaningful vote’
What is happening with Brexit? Why is it happening and what are the reasons behind the reasons for how the British are behaving?
Annual Report of the Chief Medical Officer, 2018, Chapter 6: Demography
The UK has fallen down the rankings significantly … for life expectancy at birth. In the most recent two years ONS has reported statistically significant increases in infant mortality across England for all infants.
Brexit: Remain and the Unicorn
We gave people a choice, back in 2016 between carrying on with David Cameron, with life as it was, crap as it was, or a unicorn. The unicorn was Leave. The unicorn was a promise: “Leave and everything will get better”.
Short Cuts (homelessness)
Today, one person in every two hundred in England and Wales is homeless – either sleeping rough or living in temporary accommodation. In London the proportion is even higher: one in 53. In Kensington and Chelsea it’s one in 29: in that borough alone 5,263 people are homeless.
Ireland: When everyone you know buys art, or a sculpture, to upgrade their life
People protest when they can take no more, but also when there is a glimmer of hope: When it becomes obvious that there is enough to go around
Things Fall apart: Brexit, immigration, crime, health and wages
As Bobby Duffy explained in November 2018, when it comes to Brexit and our understanding of what is going on, we live in a remarkably divided society today
Globalisation: how Britain fits in
How important is Britain in the world today, digitally, socially and financially? A talk by Danny Dorling looking at globalisation in the context of the digital social world and consider key trends in development and global inequality.
Equality and what Brexit tells us about the British
Whatever kind of Brexit occurs – hard, soft, or none – people are going to be asking questions for many years about why this has happened and what it means.
The Distribution of Wealth – Growing Inequality?
A review of ‘The Distribution of Wealth – Growing Inequality?’ By Michael Schneider, Mike Pottenger and J. E. King, The History of Economics review, Volume 68, No. 1, pp.75-78, by Danny Dorling.
The UK Government’s misplaced prevention agenda
Fixing the health crisis is a choice for politicians, not people
The Blank Slate – Toby Young and Social Mobility
It was the night before Christmas, and just a few days before his well-documented fall from grace – in response to the publication of an academic paper Sally Tomlinson and I had published a year earlier, the Conservative government’s advisor, Toby Young, posted this Tweet:
Geography and Climate Breakdown
Geography and Climate Breakdown, by Danny Dorling, The Oxford Magazine, No. 402 pp.11-12, November 30th, (eight week, Michaelmas term)
What Brexit tells us about the British
Danny Dorling giving the Institute of Applied Ethics Public Lecture, University of Hull, November 29th 2018, introduced by Colin Tyler.
Housing crisis, design feature or design flaw?
Why is the UK so bad at housing people? One reason is that some things, big bulky one-off ‘goods’ like heart surgery, a university degree and a home are very badly allocated when you mostly use the market to allocate them.
Social Inequality – The Need to Develop Inclusive Housing and Sustainable Communities
A keynote lecture given at the Canadian National Housing Conference, Ottawa, 22 November 2018.