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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.

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?

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.