"A profound and enlightening talk from professor @dannydorling at the OSEM Conference - slide shows state spending as proportion of GDP in the richest countries (you can find the UK very near the bottom..."
]]>The lecture is illustrated, parts are largely speculative, but they can be understood without the slides. It includes speculation over what we might expect in future over trends in infant and neonatal mortality, especially given possible effects of the restriction to the movement to the UK of midwives and others who help maintain the social reproduction of society. I am hopeful that there might be someone in the audience, possibly now in the mid-twenties, who might think these questions are worth looking into in greater depth and better than I am able to.
]]>Immigration has been suggested as the reason for why a narrow majority of people in the UK voted for Brexit. The concept was used to stoke up fear in areas of low immigration. However, immigration is not what sets the UK apart from other EU nations as unusual. The real reason for the Brexit vote was widespread and rising dissatisfaction with living standards as a result of rising inequalities. This talk concentrates on that and on what the UK (and especially England) may learn about itself in the coming years, partly as a consequence of the Brexit vote.
]]>Danny Dorling and Stuart Gietel-Basten dove into the latest life expectancy projections for this in depth article for The Conversation. It’s read aloud by Annabel Bligh for The Conversation’s In Depth Out Loud podcast.
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]]>"Danny was the first speaker in our "Chipping Barnet Labour presents….." - a series of open talks, which aimed to engage and inform the public on things that matter to us all. Danny is a brilliant speaker and author, whose work focuses on housing, health, employment, education, wealth and poverty. Here's what he was speaking about:
Brexit Vote 2016, Hung Parliament 2017, what in 2018? This illustrated talk offers some explanations for what has recently happened and suggests that in 2018 we will see falling economic inequality, but not celebrate it. The next step is understanding that we are not going to become the richest large country in the world, despite George Osborne’s 2015 promise. We never were – but we could slowly learn to be more normal, kinder, and more understanding. And we would then be much better off in terms of what really matters most.
This event was open to everyone."
]]>Summer Minds lectures are Chaired by Professor Andrew Oswald (Warwick university) and Dr Amanda Goodall (Cass Business School London) who are residents of St Davids
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As London’s economy continues to outpace the rest of the UK, so does the inequality gap. Is such inequality an inevitable by-product of the city’s growth, rewarding those who risk their capital to create employment, for example? Or, will it eventually derail the city’s upward progression, and push out those whom London relies on to keep it moving?
Panel: Danny Dorling, Professor of Geography, University of Oxford; Mark Littlewood, Director General, Institute of Economic Affairs; Lynda Gratton, Professor of Management Practice, London Business School and Faiza Shaheen, director, Centre for Labour and Social Studies (Class).
]]>You may have a strong opinion one way or another, you may be unsure. We are really lucky to have a panel of top experts to guide us through the different angles of the argument, and it will be up to you to decide who has been the more convincing on the day. Chair: Robin Lustig (BBC) Panel: Sir Anthony Seldon, master of Wellington College and political historian Tim Jefferis, deputy head of Oswestry School in Shropshire Henry Stewart, founding member of the Local Schools Network & Danny Dorling, Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography, University of Oxford
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