Let’s go back to the future with co-operative schools – and leave grammars in the past
Comprehensive schools have improved our lives. The evidence that they are better for our children and for all of us is overwhelming.
A debate about social goods and social evils
Housing is fundamentally a debate about social goods and social evils – TAP blog 6, 11 November 2016
Schools as the driver of inequality – the ideas behind a talk given at the annual Class conference in London on November 5th 2016
On education the left need to recognise public disquiet over our current system of allocation to state schools by area and hence by housing price.
Leaving Reality: The UK and the rest of Europe
Economically, the financial crash of 2008 set UK society on a course that led to the 2016 EU referendum.
The price we pay for housing is too high
Since 2010 council tax benefit has been cut all across the UK, and rent, gas and electricity costs have gone up. A quarter of British households, mostly with children, can no longer pay for rent, fuel and food and manage to save at least £10 a month.
Putting people at (and around) the centre of the city
An annual public lecture given by Danny Dorling generalizing from Oxford’s current housing dilemmas for the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors and the Sustainable Urban Development Programme
How much of you is you and how much of you is a product of your geography?
How much of you is you and how much of you is a product of your geography? Have a look at these maps. Areas are coloured red and dark red if many people are poor in those places. And they are coloured green, and especially dark green, if very few people are poor.
Working for service – not profit
Invited Student Lecture given by Danny Dorling at Ruskin College, Oxford, October 19th, 2016, Introduced by Parveen Alam.
Capitalism on Trial: Rising economic inequality and stalled progress in educational reform in the UK
A thirty minute talk for lower sixth form students studying A levels by Danny Dorling of the University of Oxford, School of Geography & Environment
Geography is where it’s at – and about the future
A talk for sixth form students at many schools studying A level Geography in Manchester by Danny Dorling of the University of Oxford
Epidemiology: abandoning the social: How deaths in England and Wales rose in a year by 5%
Danny Dorling talking on – Epidemiology: abandoning the social: How deaths in England and Wales rose in a year by 5%, in Scotland by 9%, but epidemiologists were too busy with the genome to notice the bills of mortality,
Talking about Brexit and Middle England on BBC Newsnight: the view from Tewksbury
Danny Dorling: Talking about Brexit on BBC Newsnight 29th September 2016, starting in Tewksbury:
A secure home is vital to wellbeing—all should have one
In 1983 your chance of owning your own home was over 70 per cent for people aged between 29 and 49. In 2012 the lucky group who had a 70 per cent or more chance of owning their homes were aged 58 to 85.
Only Dreamers See the Future
It is no coincidence that Thomas More set Utopia on an island. He was a teenager when the Americas were discovered, a time when the world learned that more was possible than we knew.
Public Health was declining rapidly before the Brexit vote
Self-reported health had been progressively declining year on year since 2010. In the years before 2010 up to 70% of the population were somewhat, mostly, or completely satisfied with their health and there was no downwards or upwards trend.