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.
A keynote lecture given at the Canadian National Housing Conference, Ottawa, 22 November 2018.
Two decades ago, leaving the European Union was a minority pursuit. Now British politics is defined by Brexit.
Benjamin D. Hennig and Danny Dorling plot the re-emergence of Conservative and Labour dominance in British politics:
Brexit may be key to the future of inequality in the UK, and inequality may have been key to making Brexit . Growing inequality created so much, from tax-evader-vote-funders to mass discontent.
We used to plan our cities. In most European countries they still plan their cities. What would a plan for the future of Oxford look like that was sustainable, environmentally responsible and affordable?
The unjust student debt can be written off – if we choose to have a fairer society. Don’t let anyone convince you this is not so.
People voted Leave most often in those parts of England which had the worse health trends, which saw the greatest rises in mortality rates in the two years after the vote, and to which the least immigrants had come in the year before the vote.
Philip Hammond delivers his budget on Monday 29th October 2018. He may be tempted to suggest that any new taxes he introduced are hypothecated. Is this a good idea?
What policies could be enacted to end homelessness in England, to ensure decent quality affordable housing, to prevent speculation and to control greed?
Life expectancy is rising in Finland – unlike in the UK. What’s going right?
I’m interested in inequality and what is happening with that.
Institutions must recognise the extent to which they are partly responsible for their cities and country’s problems.
(1) In every university city in which I have lived a colleague has always pointed out how remarkably socially divided that city is.
The 17-year war has been a costly disaster, deepening the country’s crisis and helping to spread violence across the region and beyond, say actors including Mark Rylance, MPs including Imran Hussain, and other campaigners