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Latest news about Danny Dorling,Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography, University of Oxford and author of many books and other publications.
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Seven Children: Inequality and Britain’s Next Generation by Danny Dorling review – essential reading
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It begins:. "Argentina has passed a new tax . - dubbed the "millionaire's tax" - by 42 votes to 26 on Friday. Those with assets worth more than 200 million pesos ($2.5m; £1.8m) - some 12,000 people - will have to pay.". From 3.5% to 5.25% of their wealth.
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The biggest story in the UK should not be about Brexit (or even the election) but about life expectancy. What is happening to the public's health in the UK will have very long term effects and implications - for decades to come. It goes mostly unreported -
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“Covid-19 doesn’t just call the Brexit campaign’s bluff. It questions the way we have allowed our society to be run”
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"In this counterintuitive and eye-opening book, Dorling explodes the prevalent myth of acceleration and shows a beneficial slowdown is already happening - and needs to happen.”— Vanessa Baird, New Internationalist . Read the first chapter of Slowdown here:
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Anyone care to try to guess how large the crowds will be to greet Greta, when she arrives? Those who have criticised her have only succeeded in letting more know she is coming. All it takes to start something good is one person doing the right thing. That's all it has ever taken.
Day 2. 100 nautical miles west of Cape Finisterre. A very bumpy night but I slept surprisingly well. Some dolphins showed up and swam along the boat last night!
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Hugh Grant's dad does the maths. Here's how you can do it too. 1) Go to the BBC 2017 election website and type in your post code.2) work out which party came second.3) Know that almost always that party is the only serious challenger.4) Don't be misled.
Same with my Dad. Ex army. Tory donor. Talking of voting LD this time. I pointed out that best anti Boris vote in his particular constituency was Labour. Can’t say he didn’t blink, but I think he’ll do it.
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The lowest support for the Brexit party is among those households in the UK living on the lowest of incomes. The greatest support in found among those households with a household income of £40,000 a year or more; but, even among, them the Conservatives now poll in fourth place. .
EU election breakdown by household income level:. [£0-£20k].Lab 29%.BXP 25%.LD 12%.Con 11%.Grn 10%.UKIP 5%.ChUK 3%.DUP 2%. [£20k-£40k].BXP 29%.Lab 25%.Con 16%.LD 8%.Grn 7%.SNP 4%.UKIP 4%.DUP 3%.ChUK 2%. [£40k+].BXP 32%.Lab 23%.LD 12%.Con 11%.ChUK 8%.Grn 6%.UKIP 3%.SNP 3%.DUP 1%.
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A moral question as ". the bishop of Leeds, told the Observer: “. Ministers have clearly been told to tweet support for Cummings. What price conscience? Or integrity? Or credibility? Or competence at a time when leadership can only be rooted in trust?” !.
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Mental distress has external causes: 'When large numbers of people become unwell, we need to look beyond biology and consider what is happening at the societal level.'
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Almost no women in the UK under the age of 55 would vote for the Brexit party. The Conservative party relies on women aged 55+, more than any other groups. A majority of women aged under 35 support Labour. What happens if daughters start to speak about politics to their mothers?.
From our event today - the current age divide - Labour leads among the under 34s - Cons among over 55s #CPC2019 #CPC19
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"The NHS is not a charity and it isn’t staffed by heroes. It has been run into the ground by successive governments and now we are reaping the rewards of that neglect, on the background of the public health impact of years of rampant inequality in the UK."
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Someone with a lot of money knew something at 8 minutes before the polls closed today and brought pound sterling.
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A book, out now. Shattered Nation. more here: And here:.
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'A larger number and higher proportion of young people in Germany go to university than in the UK'. The maths is not too hard to do, but the implications of this being true for UK Higher Education and wider policy are huge. Merry Christmas one and all:
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Education, Health and Housing headlines; all in one tweet: shambles, incompetence and cruelty. Failing children at school, failing public health, and kicking families out of their homes. When were there so many stories of government failing across the board all on one day before?.
UK #coronavirus news latest:. -A-level chaos continues as Ofqual suspends new criteria for appeals.-Matt Hancock 'to abolish PHE'.-Ministers have just seven days to prevent a ‘wave of evictions’.
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If you want to know what's going on: The MPs are in a murmuration, moving in the spaces of choices like a flock of starlings, and most are slowly settling away from Leave and towards Revoke. Fewer voted against Revoke than against another referendum. See this great visualisation:.
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If you are curious about Finland, and why so many people are talking about its achievements today, a new book:. FINNTOPIA.What We Can Learn From the World's Happiest Country.by Danny Dorling, Annika Koljonen. Paperback released end of October 2021, £12.99:.
@Angrybi66581358 @ITVBe Fantastic. A month in Finland.
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Just a lucky guess. I might be wrong about the peerage. It could be some other type of bauble. But at least this makes it even clearer to people that a vote for the Conservatives is, in effect, a vote for Nigel Farage and his type of far-right politics & private health companies.
A week ago, @dannydorling told me "Farage will be offered a peerage, then he'll make a pact with the Tories." .I think he can actually SEE the future.
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"overwhelming 'publication pressure' is the most prominent exponent of this. Ghent University is deliberately choosing to step out of the rat race between individuals, departments and universities. We no longer wish to participate in the ranking of people"
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For a country to be happier?. The most important thing is to elect governments that will ensure the country becomes more equal by income. After that ensure your social services – school, housing & healthcare – are efficient and equitable. Then, freedom.
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In a much-needed new initiative, Hull University has just announced a series of Sanctuary Scholarships for asylum seekers wishing to study for a degree. Deadline 18 July 2019. Full details can be found at:
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In all this fuss, few have noticed that the already much delayed 2021 census bill, scheduled for parliament today, has slipped under the water. No bill means no census. It's the smallest thing at the moment, but typical of what is quietly falling apart.
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The leaders of the five parties that now run Finland (in coalition) are pictured below. It takes decades of struggle to get to this point. A better politics does not come if you sit at home and don't vote the right way. See what Finland has achieved:
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@akalamusic In case this helps: It was originally written and shown in some detailed graphs in the FT on 16 September 2022 by one of the most reliable data journalists in the U.K. - so I think there is no reason to doubt the claim. The link is currently free to read:.
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"Life expectancy of poorest girls in England falls for first time on record since 1920s" Department of Health and Social Care respond: "Health inequality is a challenging and complex area and is driven by a variety of factors". That department is a factor:
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1.4 million views within 3 hours - a record for a clip from the UK parliament?.
How can you debate with a man not remotely on top of his brief? ‘He didn't read the protocol, he hasn't read the bill, he doesn't know his stance.’
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“. second highest deaths from coronavirus in the world behind the US, & higher than the US when normalised by population size. About one in a thousand of UK citizens has died as a result of coronavirus, and that will be the enduring legacy of Boris Johnson and Dominic Cummings.”.
A government without common sense, and with class arrogance
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For anyone interested in the ONS data that shows this: "Something is going very wrong. And whatever is going on is unique to the UK because in no other European country have there been overall falls in life expectancy that look at all like this." See this
Mortality rates are on the rise in the UK—so why is no-one talking about it? via @dannydorling.
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The strike and the sums: "We are concerned about the transparency of decision making in the USS pension scheme. The USS has announced a substantial deficit, but the data and methods they have published are very limited, making them impossible to judge."
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@davies_will @GKBhambra When they say that an idea is too dangerous to be told to children, it is because they are scared of the idea. Generations ago they were scared of discussing democracy; votes for all; & they tried to enforce clause 28 in my life time. Banning the truth will awaken curious minds.
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The George Monbiot guide to Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Rather superb video. Five minutes and ten seconds:.
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A return to austerity is not inevitable, it is a political choice.
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Slowly the truth emerges "Most leave voters live in Conservative constituencies. The Tory shires mattered more than Labour’s industrial heartlands. largest block of leave voters were middle-class Conservatives, followed by working-class Conservatives."
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The petition to revoke article 50 exceeded 2 million signatures by 10.45pm on Thursday March 21st. Soon the first constituency to see more than 10% of its electors sign up will be named. To view the hexagonal map of where the most are by now, click here:
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UK registration is spiking. It takes 5 minutes to register to vote. If you are not registered by the end of today you cannot vote on December 12th. You, or anyone you know who is not registered has to register by 11.59pm today (Tuesday 26th November 2019):
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“What do we miss when we focus only on the superrich and the most deprived? What kinds of lives are British children living, between those two extremes? Who are today’s real middle class?”.
@dannydorling @KeirGiles @Le_Figaro @dianadarke @spectator @HistoryExtra OUT IN AUGUST 🗓️. We are all getting poorer. What does that reality look like for #British #children, and for their future life chances?. #SevenChildren is about hidden realities of #injustice and #hope. In his highly original, thought- provoking new book, #inequality writer
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". no amount of hard work and inspirational leadership can compensate for the systematic dismantling of public services. The stalled progress in infant mortality is proof that growing numbers of people are being left in distress, and inequalities . are being driven ever wider".
Welcome to the UK in 2018, where babies are dying because of the cuts | Richard Vize
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No school meals are termed “free” in Finland; they are just called “lunch”. The legislation to provide for all them was introduced in 1943 & fully implemented by 1948. Finland has low poverty, but provides food for many children in school holidays anyway. Register below for more
British perspectives on the world’s happiest country:.@dannydorling, @MAP6Collective photographers and @AnnamariSipila discuss the 🇫🇮 secret to happiness. Register 👇 and join the talk co-organised with @FinInstLondon tomorrow at 5 p.m.!.
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The vote for Brexit was a largely southern English vote. It was higher in every county of the south of England than in an equivalent area in the rest of UK- no exceptions. This we can be sure of, as every vote is counted and reported by geographical area:
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It is worse than you think, shattered not stagnating.
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"So, bollocks to the Lib Dems: I shall be voting Labour because only Corbyn’s party recognises the scale of the undertaking required to restore the conditions in which progressive democratic decision making becomes plausible.".
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The last words of Jeff Fairburn, on this recording, released today: "I think that's really unfortunate really, that you've done that. ". Presumably Jeff means unfortunate for Jeff Fairburn? Not *unfortunate* in some way for the person who asked him this honest and fair question?.
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Chief Medical Officer Report Chp 6 p8 "The UK has fallen down the rankings significantly . for life expectancy at birth. In the most recent two years ONS has reported statistically significant increases in infant mortality across England for all infants"
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Scotland, London, Cambridge, Oxford, Bristol, Cardiff, Manchester, Ireland: verses the rest.
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Brexit was conceived, organised, and paid for by politicians and their funders all based to the right of mainstream European Conservatives . Brexit is a far-right orchestrated campaign. The one big mistake they made was they were not expecting to win the referendum, not 1st time.
The more I hear about death threats made towards those who are opposed to Brexit, the more I'm convinced that this Brexit can't be the will of the (working class) people. The far-right and the likes of Arron Banks are behind such a well-oiled hate machine.
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".clap with your neighbours, and don’t forget to say thanks to the next health worker who helps you out. But more importantly, let’s never again allow the government to get away with rubbishing the NHS, its staff and jeopardising the health of the nation."
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There may be a silver lining. Brexit is a larger disaster than the Suez crisis. But just as Suez was partly responsible for social progress in Britain in the 1960s so, too, Brexit may galvanise the young to reject an old elite that made such bad decisions.
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S l o w d o w n . The End of the Great Acceleration – and Why It’s Good for .the Planet, the Economy and Our Lives. by Danny Dorling. Published April 2020. HB ISBN 978-0-300-24340-6.£18.99 / €21.00 / $28.50. :-). more:.
Are we really living in a fast-paced world? In this groundbreaking book, @dannydorling reveals that human progress has been slowing down since the early 1970s. Find out more in our highlights catalogue here: #fbm19 .#frankfurtbookfair2019 .@Book_Fair
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In recent decades housing became too expensive for young adults to afford and in 2012, we made them take out huge debts to go to university. These issues are inter-related. With every year that passes it becomes clearer that It’s time to fix both problems.
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The wealthiest students pay the least: nothing. They have no loans, no interest payments. Their family pay the fees up front. Progressive?
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"Only when Britain breaks free from the chains of make-believe history will the recurring cycle of unwarranted superiority end. Tragically, the deceit runs so deep that it’s hard to imagine that such a day will ever come."
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Grammar schools: why academic selection only benefits the very affluent. Very latest academic evidence is conclusive.
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What extreme inequality means: UK children by material deprivation have "the fourth highest rate in Europe, with a worsening trend over time. Material deprivation is judged on whether families can afford a decent meal every second day and to go on holiday"
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Christmas dawn, England, 2019. May 11th 2019 Sunday at sunrise - tents rise outside Trinity College Cambridge (pictured) - the richest college of all in the UK. Seven months later, two days before Christmas, a woman (who is homeless) gives birth to twins just outside its doors
A woman who is experiencing homelessness gave birth to twins on a cold street outside Trinity College, Cambridge, on Monday morning (December 23).
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Growing evidence that countries with a bigger gap between rich and poor do more harm to the planet and its climate:
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As Fintan O’Toole carefully explains: “If Cummings were half as smart as he is supposed to be, he would have shown in his press conference some glimmer of understanding that this kind of betrayal is of a completely different order to the one he and Johnson engage in so routinely“.
“There is no forgiveness for that terrible moment when you realise that the anguish you have endured for the greater good was, to those in authority, just a mark of your credulousness and inferiority.”
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When things fall apart more people die. While infant mortality falls in Scotland it rises across all of England especially rapidly in the some cities “In Manchester alone, the infant mortality rate has soared by 40% in the past decade”.
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Just after midnight 27th March 2019 the largest spam mailing in history began. The minority UK government sent out over 5,800,000 emails to everyone who signed the "Revoke Article 50 petition". Many who received it will have voted Conservative in 2017 - but will not do so again.
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Want to understand the Covid map? Look at where we live and how we work
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View from the USA: "The reality is that Britain has an inequality and poverty problem. It is world’s fifth largest economy, but a fifth of its population live in poverty. This is heavily drawn across ethnic lines. Minority groups . still face lower pay,"
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How many more Prime Ministers will Brexit end? And when will the British finally wake up to the dawn of the day when they realise the Empire is over, that they are special no more, and that it is time - to become normal again?.
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Today, one person in every two hundred in England and Wales is homeless – either sleeping rough or living in temporary accommodation. In London the proportion is even higher: one in 53. In Kensington and Chelsea it’s one in 29: in that borough alone .
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The Health Select Committee must urgently investigate rising excess deaths in England and Wales, including the recent significant increase in the numbers of very young infant now dying across England and the UK as a whole.
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Time. to. start. repeatedly. hitting. that. nail . on. the. head. After all, it really is not that hard to understand. [Is it?]. As David explains:. "Brexit is essentially a Conservative party policy supported by Conservative voters and some others. ".
"The idea that Brexit is an anti-elite project is a nonsense.". Professor David Edgerton says, "a certain section of the British political class are suffering from terrible delusions of grandeur."
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Today: Sunrise over the gates of Trinity college Cambridge, Wednesday 27th February. In the foreground the man who has slept all night in that tent wakes up. He cannot wash. There is no toilet. He begins to cough, a very bad cough. A question, what century are we living in?
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“This is the story of Queen Mary University of London, whose boss, Colin Bailey, is on a package worth £359,000 a year (plus free housing in inner London) , but which bilks its own academics as brazenly as Scrooge did his clerks”.
The miserly tale of how a university took its staff’s wages – and the public paid the price. My column on a modern-day Scrooge .
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@BarbaraMcK42 @CarlaSpade @steve_steglitz @scotbot More of the British working class did not vote at all, than voted to Leave. The majority of Leave voters were middle class. Most lived in the south of England. There is so much about Brexit that is not understood including simple statistics about the vote itself. All in this book
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"To students, your growing debt is not a priority, and to those seeking genuine representation in our education institutions – put a lid on it. Yes, black people . The message is: we don’t care. We don’t hear you."
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Levelling down - talk and blog:."When society becomes really unequal, we no longer think about each other as human beings. The lower orders are lower orders again. We need a shift in moral compass, decency, how people should be treated and thought about. "
Danny Dorling will be discussing his new book at the LSE on Monday October 16 at 630pm. Click here to register to join in person or online:
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Since 2010 there was a slowdown, then a fall in life expectancy across much of England and Wales; "the austerity measures, introduced by the coalition government . could also be playing a role”. Annual Chief Medical Officer's Report, Dec. 21st, 2018, .
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Why not read it a second time? It might well be the best thing he’s written. Quite a long way through you get to this gem: “This is why the environmental impacts of the very rich, however right-on they may be, are massively greater than those of everyone else.” To know why, read:.
Here's my article about who we are, why we're trapped, why we are heading for planetary collapse, and what we must do to prevent it. It might not be saying much, but I think this is the best thing I've written.
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UK Higher Education: Botched loan privatisations and the highest fees in the world
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Poorest children in the UK 37 times more likely to die in fire than best-off & why this is:
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Private schools gain at expense of poorer students &: “the difference in attainment between students with statements of need and other students has risen sharply this year, and there is a similar leap in the difference between students on free school meals and those that do not.”.
All the charts and graphs you need to understand today’s results and university entry data, with a conclusion that ministerial heads will roll for this.
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Inequality is not inevitable - the Equality Trust activism pack - just released this week:
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@ProfKateOakley Yes: More people voted Leave in Hampshire (despite it having a lower electorate) than the combined voters of all of: Bolsover, Doncaster, Hull, Chesterfield, Salford, Stoke-on-Trent and Sunderland combined! How often to do we see a report from Hampshire?
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I’m Danny Dorling, I’m a professor of Geography at the University of Oxford, and in my very humble opinion one of the worse things about high economic inequality is that it damages the environment.
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"A vastly ambitious new book whose argument seems even more urgent and intriguing in the light of the coronavirus crisis" Times Higher. "Is the world spinning out of control? I thought so until I read Slowdown." William Powers. Chapter 1 of Slowdown, here:
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Unusual times, in what is now a very unusual country. The UK is governed by the most economically far-right political party - worldwide. John Burn-Murdoch (2022) The Tories have become unmoored from the British people, The Financial Times, September 30th:
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@labourlewis @BBCNewsnight Thanks Clive! First published 1,027 days ago in the BMJ, on 6/3/2016: So many Leave voters (59%) were ABC1 (middle class) because turnout was so high among this group. People often forget how few working class people voted Brexit, especially young adults:
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Scotland to bring the socioeconomic duty of the equality act into law. Why does the rest of the UK not follow suit? Letter Sunday Telegraph:
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"For the past ten years . the DWP have disregarded damning detailed research evidence demonstrating the American corporate influence with UK welfare ‘reforms’, claiming that it wasn’t peer reviewed or published in an academic journal. Well, it is now"
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". It is a tragedy that will play out differently in different parts of the world; the poor world will suffer more than the rich one [and] We will see it as a potential turning point, a portent, a sign that we should have cared more and prepared better. "
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A Conversation Long read - vote well tomorrow:."Being a member of the EU was not the cause of the UK’s woes, neither was immigration. If the British really want to take back control they will need to reassess their more recent history. Knowledge is power."
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Things Fall Apart. You may see now (and the UK) as normal – but that badly colours how you think. On Friday 21st September 2018 all but one of the half-dozen midwifery centres in Oxfordshire had been forced to suspend services. There are no good excuses:
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Paul Nicolson spent his life campaigning to change laws so that people would not be made destitute #RevPaul. Today would have been is funeral; more details of Paul are here: The compassion and care he showed in life are what is most needed @taxpayers_a_p.
If you would have been with us at Dad’s funeral today, be with us in spirit, share your memories or intentions with a short video using your smartphone, a photograph or simple text. Whatever feels right for you. Please include #RevPaul @taxpayers_a_p &
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The money exists to fix our problems … .But it’s currently hoarded by a rich elite
📢 OPTIMISM IS A POLITICAL ACT❗️ .The UK is a failing state, but it is not yet a failed state. The money exists to fix our problems … .But it’s currently hoarded by a rich elite ⬇️⬇️⬇️. In 2024 we can set course to change this. Happy New Year ❤️✊ #Max12to1.
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@blackwellbooks 1/26: ‘Slowdown: The End of the Great Acceleration – and why it’s good for the Planet, the Economy, and Our Lives’ is a book that took about six years to write. It is about how much we were speeding up and are now slowing down. #BlackwellsVF
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“After I told her their visas had been denied she told me: ‘I know why they rejected me, it’s because I’ve been misbehaving this week, Mama’. We both cried very hard.” Oxford professor’s children refused visas to join her in UK | Education | The Guardian -
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In the heart of Leave Land, in southern rural middle England, the protests against Johnson begin. Nowhere is any longer a safe Conservative seat. Not now he has done this.
Pro European group to hold protest against Boris Johnson in Market Place
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And, unlike in the 1970s, wages did not rise along with the price of food. As a result the 2020s are becoming the hungry years….
Food prices surged by 30% over *33 months* (Jan 2021 - Oct 2023). The previous 30% price increase took *13 years* to happen (2008-2021).
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@sebkraemer @MichaelMarmot I have written a book, inevitably, with a chapter on what this government (aided by others) did to our health. It is released on Sept. 19th and includes some ideas as to why they did it. That chapter extends this piece, free to read and published in 2019:.
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Sunak answered ‘no’. In 2024, at the next opportunity to question him, please can the Prime Minister be asked if there was ever a time in his life that he can remember being concerned about economic inequality, and its implications - ever, at all - even the smallest of worries?.
Liam Byrne: Do you ever lie awake at night worrying about the level of economic inequality in our country. Rishi Sunak: No.
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Paul Chatterton, Leeds professor of the urban future, . hasn’t flown since 2004: “I think every academic has to justify why they are flying to that particular ‘must-go’ conference. If we have something really important to say, say it in a different way.”
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We have a choice. Between creating a kind, fair, responsible country. Or allowing the Bullingdon Boys to keep smashing up our common decencies, our great public services and the wonders of nature, on behalf of billionaires and offshore capital. Is this a hard choice to make?.
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St Peter's (Oxford University) ". have now made offers to a record number of students who missed their offer, confirming a total of 118 undergraduate places to study with us. 100% of our offer holders from UK state schools have had their places confirmed."
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