Three hundred years of arguments for a basic income
Review of ‘Basic Income: A Radical Proposal for a Free Society and a Sane Economy, by Philippe van Parijs and Yannick Vanderborght’
Building Better Cities: 7th Annual Lecture of the Human City Institute
We think of cities as having existing for millennia, but only a few cities are that old and they were almost all extremely small.
What geography can teach us about inequality
Geography is the subject that shows you how everything is connected to everything else.
The proportion of adults reporting poor health in the UK has more than doubled since 2010
There has been a rapid deterioration in self-reported health in recent years
Excess deaths in 2015 may be linked to failures in health and social care
Excess deaths in 2015 may be linked to failures in health and social care
The Geography of a rapid rise in elderly mortality in England and Wales, 2014-15
Since at least the early 1900s almost all affluent nations in the world have continually experienced improvements in human longevity.
The Geography of a rapid rise in elderly mortality in England and Wales, 2014-15
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Annual Politics Lecture: Leeds Beckett University
I am always surprised that more people in the UK do not know that we now have the greatest economic inequality of any large country in Europe
Reducing Inequality: Reasons for Hope for 2017
If high and growing inequality is benefitting fewer and fewer people in the UK and the USA we should be glad that more people now recognise this
Equality in Europe, the landscape, battle and war
Equality in Europe, the landscape, battle and war, public lecture by Danny Dorling, St Cross College, Oxford, January 24th.
Theresa May’s Industrial Strategy must work for Sheffield, the city of low pay
The Prime Minister has launched her much-vaunted industrial strategy. The measure of its success has to be whether it works for cities like Sheffield and the rest of the North.
Housing crisis grows – first fall in home movers for five years
On January 20th 2017 the BBC announced the first fall in the numbers of people moving home in the last five years. The reason was the growing housing crisis.
Migration, Europe, bias in research, health, education and housing
It’s remarkable how little research is available comparing the success of different countries’ immigration policies.
House prices in London are falling
In mid-December the Land Registry revealed its latest data on housing prices. These showed that average prices had fallen in five London boroughs in October, up from three in September and just one borough in August.
Review of Utopia by Thomas More, introduced by China Miéville and concluded by Ursula Le Guin
In 1968 Ursula Le Guin wrote the Wizard of Earthsea for me. I knew it, as I am sure thousands of other children also knew.