All around the world, on every continent and in most major cities, university students in 2024 established peace encampments to draw attention to the ongoing horrors taking place in Gaza. They were ...

The old myth about the ability and variability of potential in children is a comforting myth, especially for those who are uneasy with the degree of inequality they see and would rather seek to ...

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 ...

100 days of Labour: Are we any closer to solving inequality? Kate Pickett, Richard Wilkinosn, Danny Dorling and Mathew Taylor ...

Brexit has its roots in the British Empire. So how do we explain it to the young? The EU referendum was the last throes of Empire working its way out of our systems. Is Brexit a marvellous opportunity ...

Danny Dorling speaking on Fairness and the City – A Better Politics, University of Brighton’s Festival of Social Science Annual Lecture, Brighton, May 19th, 2016 Start by considering what is most ...

The Panama Papers revealed what a few suspected for some time, but many people did not believe – that a large proportion of wealthy people were trying very hard to avoid paying much of their tax. The ...

I am not pessimistic when it comes to global trends. But closer to home the statistics are a lot less rosy. People are feeling shattered. Hopes are being shattered. Much of the fabric of society feels ...

What does Brexit tell us about ourselves – and what will happen now? An audio recording of an open public meeting organised by Cheltenham Labour Party and held in Cheltenham on Friday 15th February ...

Twelve years ago, in June 2011, I wrote a blog (part 1 and part 2) for the Significance magazine website. I explained that in May 2011 the United Nations (UN) Population Division had released the 2010 ...

No-one plucks the heart strings like Danny Dorling, but he does it with devastating facts and graphs. This searing book spells out British children’s lives, divided by the deepest inequality since the ...

School meals are never termed “free” in Finland; they are simply called “lunch”. Alongside Sweden; Finland is one of the very few countries in the world to provide free school meals to all school ...