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
The author of a recent BMJ editorial claims that: “In summary, the general deceleration in mortality improvements in many high income countries since 2010 has been compounded by periodic bad winters.“
The English suburbs are dying. Years of austerity have slowly changed the landscape. Poverty is now common in the suburbs. Since 2014 life expectancy has been falling across most of England, especially in the suburbs.
Audio recording of the Keynote Lecture given by Danny Dorling at the annual British Society for Population Studies conference, Winchester, September 12th 2018
‘And you, my father, there on that sad height, Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray. Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light’ (Dylan Thomas, 1947)