Inequality is the biggest threat to the world
People often think that a certain level of inequality is normal in our societies, says the social geographer Danny Dorling.
Social cohesion, sustainability, city, demographics, the economy and education – Japan, the UK and similar countries
Keynote: British Academy and Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) seminar on Growing Cities, Divided Cities
Is inequality an unavoidable fact of life?
Danny Dorling, Bruno Rinvolucri and Leah Green
Are more people dying because the rich are getting richer at the expense of the rest?
Annual Public Health Lecture, University of Southampton
Breath-taking ignorance
When answering questions on “sink estates” in the House of Commons on 13th January the Prime Minister displayed a breath-taking degree of ignorance on housing that can only have been sustained by a growing arrogance.
Injustice, Inequality and the 1%
Public Lecture at the York Union
Have we become acclimatised to greater inequality?
Keynote by Danny Dorling and Kate Pickett
Viewpoint on Inequality and the 1%
Spare a thought for the 1% lowest earners in the UK. Read on if you care…
UK among world’s worst for teaching to the test
Schools in Britain are among the worst in the world for ‘teaching to the test’ because of high levels of social inequality
Scroogeonomics
A Fifteen Minute Lecture with Danny Dorling
Creating a more equal society will require understanding and generosity, hope, perseverance, but above all kindness
Causal links with depleting mental health in the young, the increased use of anti-depressent drugs, and high rates of infant deaths than in similar affluent countries, sketching a narrative of the insidious potential social consequences for our society in a hundred years’ time.
Seven new maps of the world and what they might mean
Two talks recorded at Southgate School 6th form, Cockfosters, London (December 8th) St Helen and St Katharine School, Abingdon (December 9th 2015)
Policing one hundred years hence
Having a large police force is a temporary feature. They have no longterm future and no lengthy history.
Inequality and the 1%
Talk at Labour students, Queen Mary University
The environment: social inequality and over-consumption and why both persist
Lecture at Kinvig Geography Society, University of Birmingham