From the cradle to the grave: The abandonment of our social contract
The Sun newspaper broke the story of two-year-old Bronson Battersby in January. He was found starved to death curled up next to his father Kenneth.
Fertility rates are falling in the rich world; but there are still plenty of people to go round
“It’s funny, but it’s dark, because we know we could be causing our own extinction.”
The rise and fall of Britain’s Golden Cohort: how the remarkable generation of 1925–1934 had their lives cut short by austerity
A research article written by Lucinda Hiam and Danny Dorling, and published in the Review of Social Economy, online, on 29 Feb 2024.
The sun on the meadow
‘…by changing our country…and building a better future for our children and grandchildren. … A future where they feel optimism, hope, and pride. …
Shape of the future, the next supercontinent: Solving the puzzle of a future Pangea by Ross Mitchell
The possibility of the realigning of Asian and America.
Full Marx for Trying: degrowth is possible – but not this way
In ‘Slow Down’, Kohei Saito insists that only ‘degrowth communism’ can save us from climate disaster – but his argument fails to convince.
Influenza: cause or excuse? An analysis of flu’s influence on worsening mortality trends in England and Wales, 2010–19
Lu Hiam, Martin McKee, and Danny Dorling, writing in the British Medical Bulletin, 15 January 2024, All social groups in England and Wales experienced a long period of increasing life expectancy until the second decade of the 21st century,
Is Inequality Inevitable? The ‘Northern European Model’ Suggests Not
The Nordic model of capitalism has garnered substantial attention for its approach to economic and social organisation.
For All Those – Public Sector Sensitivities
In April 2023 Michele Lancione, a Professor of Economic and Political Geography at the Polytechnic University of Turin, was interviewed about his work.
Permacrisis: A Plan to Fix a Fractured World – Review
In Permacrisis: A Plan to Fix a Fractured World, Gordon Brown, Mohamed El-Erian and Michael Spence put forward a strategy on growth
A deathly silence: why has the number of people found decomposed in England and Wales been rising?
An exploratory study has raised concerns about the increasing number of people in England and Wales whose bodies are discovered so late that they have decomposed.
The UK government has failed to act on extreme poverty
The UN’s special rapporteur on extreme poverty has said that the UK is “in violation of international law” over poverty levels. This is shocking, but not surprising, argue Lucinda Hiam and Danny Dorling.
Destitution, unlike success in football, is coming home
“The government is not helpless to act; it is choosing not to” Paul Kissack, Chief Executive of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, 24 October 2023
Brexit – a failed project in a failing state
‘Fifty years on from now, Britain will still be the country of long shadows on county [cricket] grounds, warm beer, invincible green suburbs, dog lovers, and—as George Orwell said—old maids bicycling to Holy Communion through the morning mist.’
British society is heading for levelling down
In his new book “Shattered Nation: Inequality and the Geography of a Failing State”, Danny Dorling paints a bleak picture of life for many UK citizens today.