Edinburgh Festival Talk: People and Places: A 21st Century Atlas of the UK – Britain After The Boom
A talk given at the Edinburgh Book Festival on August 29th, 2016.
The Housing Crisis After Brexit
What are the implications of Brexit for the housing crisis in the UK? Danny Dorling offers some answers at Urbed’s 4×4 event, held in Manchester on July 13th 2016.
The Geography of our Future
Two lectures for the summer. First Some ideas about protecting the earth’s environment and its people: A talk given as part of the Summer Minds lectures at St Davids in Wales on August 3rd 2016.
The Wind and the Willows
Oxfordshire could be so different and was so different not very long ago. In the novel Larkrise to Candleford, the story of a very different Oxfordshire is told
What now for the Labour Party?
The vote to leave the European Union is a moment of both crisis and opportunity. Now the need to build a progressive alliance has become urgent.
Rapidly Worsening Public Health recorded across the UK – PSA Blog July 11th
Across the UK self-reported health has been progressively declining year on year since 2010 with the fastest falls to the worse recorded levels having been confirmed by official data released in March 2016, but not yet reported until now.
How inequality is killing us
The rise in mortality in 2015 was shocking. In England and Wales (alone) the rise of mortality of 9% in the year to July 2015 was, as far as can be known from published statistics, the largest proportional increase in mortality rates in a year recorded since 1940.
A Better Politics: How government can make us happier and healthier
If we start by considering what is most important to people in their lives, then we end up advocating a very different politics and set of priorities to that which is usually presented.
Brexit: The decision of a divided country
Blame austerity not immigration for the inequality underlying Brexit. The underlying reason for worsening health and declining living standards in Britain is not immigration but ever growing economic inequality and the public spending cuts that have accompanied austerity.
When a housing market peaks: lessons from 18th century Amsterdam
In Amsterdam in 1699, a house sold for 28,100 guilders. This was a very fine house. Its equivalent would be found in Kensington today.
In defence of the welfare state and the role of active housing policy
<< previous publication Dorling, D. (2016) In defence of the welfare state and the role of active housing policy In Franklin, B., Urzi Brancati, M.C., and and Hochlaf, D. (eds.) Towards a new age: The future of the UK welfare state, London: International Longevity Centre. Download PDF (<1 MB) Online next publication >>
A View From The Future: The Job-Centre
One hundred years ago today the battle of the Somme began. Today the British can only talk about leaving the European Union. What might we look back on in one hundred years from now?
Smashing Silly Stereotypes: The distorted descriptions of tenants and the housing crisis
Many tenants say that they don’t recognise themselves in the descriptions of social housing tenants that are bandied about. They are all too often distorted or stereotyped.
So, how do we explain it to the young?
Brexit has its roots in the British Empire. So how do we explain it to the young? The EU referendum was the last throes of Empire working its way out of our systems.
It is easy to blame anything you like on immigration – and wrong
Immigration, The EU Referendum, and the real reasons why our schools are so often full, our housing is so expensive and our health service is underfunded as compared to the rest of Europe.