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This has never happened before. No UK political party has seen such a large and such a rapid rise in support as Labour saw in May 2017.

The Equality Effect is almost magical. In more equal countries, human beings are generally happier and healthier, there is less crime, more creativity and higher educational attainment.

Improvements in mortality in England were seen for a generation before the year 2011. They now appear to have ended.

People in different countries make different choices. In Norway they chose to deal with the financial crash of 2008 in such a way that the population did not suffer unduly and life expectancy there has risen by a year since 2011.

Every so often a social statistic is released that confirms something extraordinary has occurred, something so strange that it cannot continue, suggesting that the trend has to change again soon.

Politics in Britain and in many other countries would be better if politicians concentrated on the things which are most important to people.

Review of ‘Basic Income: A Radical Proposal for a Free Society and a Sane Economy, by Philippe van Parijs and Yannick Vanderborght’

We think of cities as having existing for millennia, but only a few cities are that old and they were almost all extremely small.

Geography is the subject that shows you how everything is connected to everything else.

There has been a rapid deterioration in self-reported health in recent years

Excess deaths in 2015 may be linked to failures in health and social care

Since at least the early 1900s almost all affluent nations in the world have continually experienced improvements in human longevity.

I am always surprised that more people in the UK do not know that we now have the greatest economic inequality of any large country in Europe

If high and growing inequality is benefitting fewer and fewer people in the UK and the USA we should be glad that more people now recognise this