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The world isn’t a plum pudding anymore. It’s time for Britain to stop pretending it can carve it up—and scrap its Imperialist approach to post-Brexit trade.

Inequality has become the defining issue of our times. It is what makes the years we are currently living through so different to those of our parents and grandparents.

The increased prevalence of patients being delayed in discharge from hospital in 2015 was associated with increases in mortality, accounting for up to a fifth of mortality increases.

This limited survey of the effects of inequality and high house prices in cities is part of the problem, not the solution.

We are concerned about the transparency of decision making in the USS pension scheme. The USS has announced a substantial deficit, but the data and methods they have published are very limited, making them impossible to judge.

Oxford Alumni Weekend Lecture, Oxford, September 16th 2017

There was one noteworthy feature of the 2017 General Election that has not been commented on at all. For the first time since 1979 the segregation index of British Conservative voters fell.

New statistics offer hope—but the accuracy of such figures is notoriously difficult to assess.

From buying stuff to eating meat to wasting water, there is growing evidence that countries with a bigger gap between rich and poor do more harm to the planet and its climate.

This has never happened before. No UK political party has seen such a large and such a rapid rise in support as Labour saw in May 2017.

The Equality Effect is almost magical. In more equal countries, human beings are generally happier and healthier, there is less crime, more creativity and higher educational attainment.

Improvements in mortality in England were seen for a generation before the year 2011. They now appear to have ended.

People in different countries make different choices. In Norway they chose to deal with the financial crash of 2008 in such a way that the population did not suffer unduly and life expectancy there has risen by a year since 2011.

Every so often a social statistic is released that confirms something extraordinary has occurred, something so strange that it cannot continue, suggesting that the trend has to change again soon.

Politics in Britain and in many other countries would be better if politicians concentrated on the things which are most important to people.