Danny Dorling teaches at Oxford.
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 5,263 people are homeless. They are unlikely to be the same people (a smaller number) as last year. Most of them will have moved...
The first English Life Table was based on data collected around the census year of 1841 and gave female life expectancy as 42 and male as 40. By the sixth table, in 1891, life expectancy for women in England and Wales was 48 and for men 44. Many people lived longer than this, but so many babies died in their first year of life that it brought the average down. Public health reforms during...
Danny Dorling talks to Zoe Williams about his book, Slowdown.
Danny Dorling and Sally Tomlinson discuss their book Rule Britannia: Brexit and the End of Empire, which argues that at its heart the rhetoric of Brexit was the playing out of older school curricula that...
There are two standard views of the relationship between poverty and inequality. The first is that there isn’t one: how the poor fare has nothing to do with how much better off the rich...
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