A return to austerity is not inevitable, it is a political choice
With the autumn budget announced today (17/11/2022) and the Conservative government once again signalling a return to austerity, it is timely to be reminded of two key points.
A Tale of Three Elections
On September 5th 2022 Liz Truss was elected as Prime Minster winning 81,326 votes
Austerity led to twice as many excess UK deaths as previously thought – here’s what that means for future cuts
More people died from the austerity in the five years before the pandemic than have died from COVID since.
Let them eat growth?
Politics is about people, about our different views and our understandings about people
The “mini-budget” will make the UK the most unequal country in Europe
Growing inequality in the UK has implications for health.
A Letter from Helsinki
I arrived in Helsinki in early summer 2022 to attend Europe’s largest conference on
A Review of Branko Milanovic’s Capitalism and Global Income Inequality
Branko Milanovic’s Capitalism, Alone: The Future of the System That Rules the World begins, provocatively
When the old suffer too: the cycle of intergenerational inequality
There is a time honoured, effective, but ultimately illogical argument made about generations.
The share of people working in public service
The government could, if it wished, claim that in 2021 it was employing more people in public sector jobs than John Major did.
The end of great expectations?
The pandemic inquiry must account for stalling life expectancy before the pandemic, Editorial, British Medical Journal
The Trickle Up of Fear
Slowly and strangely the world changes. We adapt, but it changes us too. We are not the people we were.
The never-ending pandemic
The pandemic is not ending—and it may not end in our lifetimes.
The Decimation of the NHS
Geographers should be interested in what is happening to the NHS because it is through making geographical comparisons with other countries that we can see that its current decimation is unnecessary.
The ever ending never ending pandemic
How little we knew two years ago and how little we still know now.
Christmas Socialising: three health experts explain how to interpret new advice
Christmas socialising: three health experts explain