Mental distress has external causes
To better tackle mental illness, look to the societies in which it occurs.
Paul Scarrott speaking at the Anti-Racism Summit, Sheffield, 2 June 2018
We have to stand up to these things because otherwise we are faced with a very simple situation. Today’s unacceptable becomes tomorrow’s norm.
Can the UK afford to leave the EU?
The UK voted to leave at the peak of its economic inequality.
Inequality the Big Picture
The first of three Free Summer Lectures on Inequality. Given by Danny Dorling in London on Tuesday May 22nd 2018 at 6:30pm in Bethnal Green.
What might a progressive economy look like?
A progressive economy might seem like a pipe dream, but is it achievable?
The Gender Pay Gap – what the first reports revealed
In April 2018 we heard an enormous amount about gender pay gaps as all the data was revealed.
Government must investigate rising excess deaths in England and Wales
Health researchers have urged the government and MPs to investigate rising numbers of deaths in England and Wales, after new figures showed over 20,000 “excess deaths” so far in 2018.
Britain is a Segregated Society – the isolation of the richest from the rest
Britain is a highly segregated society.
Thank God for the House of Windsor (our museum future)
I used to be a Republican, but that was before Brexit.
Danny Dorling: Speaking for the motion: This House Would End University Tuition Fees
The current system of university student funding in England is a confidence trick.
Could 2018 be the peak of the crisis in health in the UK or will 2019 be even worse?
Since 2011, something unusual and, in modern British history, unprecedented has happened to life expectancy: it has flatlined.
Rule Britannia and Stupidity,
A 15 minute talk on the Brexit Referendum of 2016, Rule Britannia in 2017, and stupidity in 2018, given by Danny Dorling at St Georges, Bristol, as part of a 5×15 event, April 16th 2018.
Syria, the West’s Response and International Law
Syria, the west’s response and international law, Letter, Wednesday 11th April 2018: “Readers including Mark Rylance, Brian Eno and Francesca Martinez respond to the escalating situation in Syria”.
Review of Branco Milanovic’s Global Inequality: A new approach for the Age of Globalization
The first words on the inside cover of this book announce that it has been written by one of the world’s leading economists.
Why we need an anti-war government
We know they used to keep plans for war secret from us. We know just how wrong they were in the past. So what are we not being told today?