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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

Housing and Future Cities

Panel contribution, and answering questions with Michael Edwards, Kate Macintosh, Anna Minton, and Zoe Williams at the Festival of Ideas