The Demography of Inequality
Re: Rise in mortality in England and Wales in first seven weeks of 2018: Rapid response by Lu Hiam and Danny Dorling, published in the British Medical Journal, March 23rd 2018
Recent deaths in prisons and for people in mental health detention in the UK
Decent rights, trust, and fairness all require greater economic equality.
Blame education’s ‘macho leader’ cult for shocking gender pay gap
For years schools have been sending pupils the message that women are worth less than men. It’s our moral duty to fix that.
Brexit: The result of rising inequality, not rising immigration
Immigration has been suggested as the reason for why a narrow majority of people in the UK voted for Brexit. The concept was used to stoke up fear in areas of low immigration.
Top ‘Remuneration’: Have we reached Peak Inequality?
A fall in inequality can begin without policy and political changes, but they help sustain it.
Rapid rise in mortality in England and Wales in early 2018 – an investigation is needed
Until recently we had been using the rising profits of undertakers to gauge how unusual recent rises in mortality have been. However, we can no longer do that.
Both adult and infant mortality now rise in the UK
In March 2018 we learnt that, in contrast to all other countries in Europe, both adult and infant mortality are now rising in the UK making an already awful situation worse.
The public health record of the 2010-2018 UK Government
In the eight years since the May 2010 general election, the health of people living in the United Kingdom has faltered.
May and Cameron have a terrible record on health, and it could be cutting lives short
Life expectancy in the UK has stalled. In many places, and for more vulnerable groups, it is now falling – on-line report in the New Statesman (March 2nd 2018).
Housing prices in the UK and London fall, homelessness rises, more children than ever sleep in B&Bs
The Nationwide Building Society has reported today, March 1st 2018, that prices fell by 0.3% last month, crushing expectations of a rise” Commentators explain: “Brexit and a weaker economic outlook reinforced a slowdown in the property market”.
UK Higher Education: Botched loan privatisations and the highest fees in the world
As Brexit looms closer, various schemes for Britain to “find new markets” will be touted.
Utopia for Realists and How We Can Get There
Utopia for Realists ends with its author professing admiration for Friedrich Hayek and Milton Friedman.
Brexit: The result of rising inequality, not rising immigration
Immigration has been suggested as the reason for why a narrow majority of people in the UK voted for Brexit. The concept was used to stoke up fear in areas of low immigration.
130,000 children homeless after Christmas 2017. Why?
Our housing system is in a mess. A child looking down from the window of a tower block on to Britain’s streets today will see the widest and clearest picture of what is getting rapidly worse.
The current state of Inequality
When inequality is high people lose face, they lose confidence, they suffer from comparisons in which it is implied that the vast majority warrant little or no respect.