Equality in Europe, the landscape, battle and war
Equality in Europe, the landscape, battle and war, public lecture by Danny Dorling, St Cross College, Oxford, January 24th.
Theresa May’s Industrial Strategy must work for Sheffield, the city of low pay
The Prime Minister has launched her much-vaunted industrial strategy. The measure of its success has to be whether it works for cities like Sheffield and the rest of the North.
Housing crisis grows – first fall in home movers for five years
On January 20th 2017 the BBC announced the first fall in the numbers of people moving home in the last five years. The reason was the growing housing crisis.
Migration, Europe, bias in research, health, education and housing
It’s remarkable how little research is available comparing the success of different countries’ immigration policies.
House prices in London are falling
In mid-December the Land Registry revealed its latest data on housing prices. These showed that average prices had fallen in five London boroughs in October, up from three in September and just one borough in August.
Review of Utopia by Thomas More, introduced by China Miéville and concluded by Ursula Le Guin
In 1968 Ursula Le Guin wrote the Wizard of Earthsea for me. I knew it, as I am sure thousands of other children also knew.
Don’t mention this around the Christmas table: Brexit, inequality and the demographic divide
Brexit voting patterns appear to divide along the lines of age (above all else), then by social attitudes, and then by education
The Creation of Inequality: Myths of Potential and Ability
The old myth about the ability and variability of potential in children is a comforting myth
Analysing the regional geography of poverty, austerity and inequality in Europe
This paper presents a human cartographic approach to the analysis of the impact of austerity and the economic crisis across Europe’s regions.
In straitened circumstances: A review of Austerity Blues
The Left are busy looking back instead of devising laws to address inequalities.
Geography, Health, Austerity and Europe – where next for the countries of the UK?
Public Lecture given by Danny Dorling at the University of Swansea, December 12th 2016.
France shows what has gone wrong in the UK and US
The outcome of the French presidential election, in which the Republican Francois Fillon, Front National’s Marine Le Pen, and the Socialist Party will be vying for position in April 2017, could have wide reaching implications for public health in Europe.
The Politics of Public Spending, Equality and Hope
In October 2016, at her party’s annual conference, the Prime Minister (Teresa May) set out a vision for a more inclusive Britain
The future of Social Justice
Melissa Benn, Danny Dorling, Kayleigh Garthwaite and Owen Jones, Speaking on the future of Social Justice, at the Bristol Festival of Ideas and Policy Press Evening, University of Bristol, December 5th.
Today’s housing crisis: sown by Thatcher, harvested by May. What is required to really take back control?
Margaret Thatcher’s government sowed the seeds of today’s housing crisis when it abandoned rent regulation in the private sector.