Danny Dorling

This conceptual paper argues that economics is not a discipline well placed for dealing with the idea of transformation because it developed within one mode of society at a time of global population growth and hence also continuous demand growth.

Quietly, as the drought of the long cost-of-living crisis continued throughout all of 2026, a four word campaign slogan from North Carolina spread around the world, almost imperceptibly outwards, from the south eastern coast of the USA.

Once respectable opinion fretted about distinguishing the “deserving” poor from the “undeserving.”

The UK’s deepening inequalities are no longer just an economic problem but are reshaping politics, undermining trust, and widening generational divides.

How geography shapes patterns of public spending and political choice from the local level in England to international comparisons across Europe and the United States.

Danny Dorling urges the new Director-General to recognise that for most of the world outside the UK the BBC appears to be an organ of right-wing propaganda—and how they might solve that Dear Matt Brittin, Congratulations on your appointment.

Obituary: Paul R.

British Children Are Growing Taller – But Not for the Right Reasons A new analysis of Child Measurement Programme data from England, Scotland, and Wales challenges recent reports suggesting children in Britain are getting shorter.

The year 2026 began with revelations that a former cabinet minister, Peter Mandelson, appeared to have passed on sensitive information including economic policy plans from the UK government to the financier Jeffery Epstein.

Bingzhi Zhu was a foreign student from China.

The BBC was once an engine of progressive change driving British society to greater equality – Danny Dorling asks what changed, and why?

In September 2025, the British Election Study (BES) team released the latest results of a continuous survey of voters.

Born to Rule is a fascinating book, with only a few small faults.

On July 1st 2025, journalist Polly Toynbee wrote a story in The Guardian beneath the title: ‘To all who think capitalism can drive progressive change, it won’t – and here’s the shocking proof’ [1].

When Keir Starmer became Prime Minister he promised ‘change’, and this promise was beefed up in his 2024 Christmas message with his six promises. 1.

Against the backdrop of recent global house price inflation, this paper addresses the question commonly asked about asset price booms and crises: ‘Is this time different?’

Those who declare the UK to be an island of estranged individuals are the ones who should be looking closer to home, writes Danny Dorling Imagine our communities in years to come.

“…examines the rise of nationalist and exclusionary rhetoric in British political discourse, calling out the quiet normalisation of racism and jingoism at the highest levels of government.

Extra regulation and less help with costs have made buy-to-let far less profitable.

In 1973, Britain was the second most equal large country in Western Europe, and now it is the second most unequal of any country across the entirety of Europe.

Something is afoot.

Another Spring in the UK, another set of statistics are released on child poverty.

Cuts to disability benefits will worsen health and the economy The chancellor of the exchequer, Rachel Reeves, will set out the UK government’s spending plans in her spring statement on 26 March.1 The consultative green paper, Pathways to Work,2 has alrea…

Why did crime rise in Britain in the 1980s?

There was once a time, long ago, when every year the population of the UK became more united as income inequalities fell and the public sector grew.

I am eight lots of seven years old (56).

Ten book published in 2024 and one extra, so good, that it is in the list again!

On 11 November 2024, on Armistice Day, Cat Hobbs of the lobby Group “We Own It”, called for a truce.

Spatial Inequalities and Wellbeing is a carefully brought together collection of nine chapters written by over twenty separate authors from the regional science/studies tradition.

In 2023, suicide rates in England & Wales reached their highest levels since 1999.

The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World brings together a selection of writings spanning two decades by the renowned anthropologist and anarchist David Graeber.

In many ways in the UK, we are currently at a peak of injustice and we have to choose which way to turn.

.. let’s talk about you and me; let’s talk about all the good things, and the bad things, that may be….

By 2023 the latest statistics, looked at in the round, began to suggest that it was not fanciful to believe that we had seen income inequality peak in 2018 and wealth inequality peak shortly afterwards.

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.

…why did this happen to our children?

Five years ago I drew a diagram to illustrate why age was such an important factor in determining the result of the previous, 2019, UK General Election.

Thanks to the far-far-right standing in almost every seat in the UK 2024 General Election, Labour is now in power as the party of government.

Avoidable deaths have increased in the UK: the damning data political parties aren’t discussing Lucinda Hiam, University of Oxford; Danny Dorling, University of Oxford, and Martin McKee, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine One question that Briti…

In March 2024, the British Chancellor of the Exchequer, Jeremy Hunt, said: ‘I spoke to a lady from Godalming about eligibility for the government’s childcare offer which is not available if one parent is earning over £100k.

Britain is a deeply divided nation but a majority of the public, apart from the very richest, hold views that can be interpreted as compassionate towards those struggling in society The British public can, quite often, be painted as cruel.

July 4th 2024, roll up, roll up, don’t miss out!

In The Road to Freedom, Joseph Stiglitz considers the relationship between capitalism and freedom, evaluating democracy, economics and what constitutes a good society.

This article is unusual in that it provides a graphical summary of various aspects of the longer-term crisis that appeared to cumulate in 2022 through to at least early 2024 in terms of especially poor economic and social outcomes for the UK.

On 21 March 2024 the latest official poverty statistics for the UK were released.

Five countries are normally included in the Nordic grouping.

Thank you so much for the invitation to speak.

The Sun newspaper broke the story of two-year-old Bronson Battersby in January.

“It’s funny, but it’s dark, because we know we could be causing our own extinction.”

A research article written by Lucinda Hiam and Danny Dorling, and published in the Review of Social Economy, online, on 29 Feb 2024.