Revelation after revelation with Prof @dannydorling.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk on @peteryork.bsky.social Culture Wars House party podcast this week – on Brexit myths, Britain’s place at the top of Europe’s inequality league, and how to fight the good fight.
🎧 Full episode: podfollow.com/peter-yorks-...
Horizontal bar graph showing that a majority of people in the UK with incomes of £150K or more do not believe that the govt is offering too little support to help people with the cost of living crisis. In lower income brackets, a majority of people disagree.
📢 INEQUALITY GRAPHIC OF THE WEEK (No.11) 🔽
A majority of people on £150k+ p/a in the UK do not seem to care much about those who are less fortunate. Inequality erodes compassion...
Source: Prof. Danny Dorling
Peak Injustice: Solving Britain’s Inequality Crisis
www.dannydorling.org/books/peakin...
From Roger Scruton cafes to paying Matt Goodwin $10k a month, Viktor Orban has built a network of populist right think tanks, journalists and activists
Today Democracy for Sale delves into Orban’s allies on the British right
Well worth a read
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/orbans-brits
Horizontal bar graph showing that material worries like inflation, poverty and inequality and unemployment worry people the most (globally) whereas climate change is only the 8th biggest worry. Immigration is at No.11. Data from Ipsos 'What Worries the World' surveys (2023) reprinted in Danny Dorling's 'The Next Crisis' book.
📢 INEQUALITY GRAPHIC OF THE WEEK (No.10) 🔽
Climate change is less of a worry for those who are struggling to survive day to day. Fairness ⚖️ must be at the heart of Green politics...💚
Source: Prof. Danny Dorling
The Next Crisis: What We Think About The Future
www.dannydorling.org/books/thenex...
One of the greatest privileges of academia is supervising remarkable young people. Absolutely thrilled by @lucindahiam.bsky.social successful DPhil defence at Oxford yesterday - with thanks also to my co-supervisor @dannydorling.bsky.social
Paul Black (1930–2026) influenced the field of education through his work on formative assessment, transforming the relationship between learning, pedagogy, and assessment. Taylor & Francis have made his ORE articles free to view in perpetuity.
doi.org/10.1080/0305...
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Danny Dorling speaking on "The Next Crisis" in Oxford: 730pm on Tuesday 14 April 2026.
For Oxford Humanists, at:
North Oxford Association Community Centre, Annexe Diamond Place, Summertown, Oxford, OX2 7PD
To register and for more information see:
humanists.uk/events/the-n...
Global fuel-industry CO2 emissions, 1750–1910 from https://www.dannydorling.org/books/SLOWDOWN/
Thank you Frank for the pointer!
Thank you @dannydorling.bsky.social for making the pics available! They are so beautiful!
Danny Dorling speaking on "The Next Crisis" in Oxford: 730pm on Tuesday 14 April 2026.
For Oxford Humanists, at:
North Oxford Association Community Centre, Annexe Diamond Place, Summertown, Oxford, OX2 7PD
To register and for more information see:
humanists.uk/events/the-n...
Graph showing steep fall in the proportion of people working in the public sector (i.e. working for the common good) in the UK from 1992 to 2021, falling from 23% to 17% (note: of the much larger total national workforce) over the period.
📢 INEQUALITY GRAPHIC OF THE WEEK (No.9) 🔽
The deliberate shrinking of the UK state means fewer people are working for the common good, and so things fall apart...
Source: Prof. Danny Dorling
Shattered Nation: Inequality and the Geography of a Failing State
www.dannydorling.org/books/shatte...
“Villages, unlike towns, have always been ruled by conformism, isolation, petty surveillance, boredom & repetitive malicious gossip about the same families. Which is a precise enough description of the global spectacle’s present vulgarity…” @pure-culture.bsky.social
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I've said it before, but I'll say it again. Grant Sanderson (@3blue1brown.com) is one of the most skilled visual communicators. His explanations are pedagogic masterpieces and a joy to experience.
He's outdone himself with his latest on M.C. Escher's Prentententoonstelling.
youtu.be/ldxFjLJ3rVY
📢 WHEN FASCISTS SPEAK, BELIEVE THEM ➡️ "One senior member said this would be modelled on the second Trump administration, with a focus on making change via executive orders rather than legislation, where possible." www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
The billionaires, the middle men, and the little people
@publicsectorfocus.bsky.social
A graph showing various extreme and very unlikely global population scenarios to 2100 where the population falls sharply from around 2020 into the coming decades and then recovers slightly. But what will happen when population falls? Current immigration hysteria blinds us to this challenge.
📢 INEQUALITY GRAPHIC OF THE WEEK (No.4) 🔽
Overly bleak and premature scenarios, certainly, but what happens when population falls? Immigration hysteria blinds us to this challenge...
Source: Prof. Danny Dorling
The Next Crisis: What We Think About The Future
www.dannydorling.org/books/thenex...
“Imagine you had to design a society without knowing your own place in it... Would you design one where a tiny elite accumulates unimaginable wealth while a third of children grow up in poverty?”
– @profkepickett.bsky.social of @equalitytrust.bsky.social
#LSEInequalitiesBlog
Graph showing international comparison of child poverty rates from 2012-14 to 2019-21. The UK is the worst performer of all the nations with a proportional increase of around 20%.
📢 INEQUALITY GRAPHIC OF THE WEEK (No.2) 🔽
The UK has a terrible recent record on child poverty, the worst of all the nations below, worsened by the 2-child benefit cap from 2017.
Source: Prof. Danny Dorling
Peak Injustice: Solving Britain’s Inequality Crisis
www.dannydorling.org/books/peakin...
See below for a survey where input will help identify case studies for deeper research into how people come together to advance health policy in divided settings, where trust between groups is limited. ....
🇺🇸 Have you seen a US health policy move forward even when political views were deeply polarized? We're collecting examples as part of my Harkness Fellowship project on how people come together to advance health policy
in divided environments.
🔗Share examples here: forms.gle/tXR6MGby4fee...
A graph showing the wealth share of the top 1% in US, France, UK, and Sweden falling from 1895 to around 1980 and then going into reverse and increasing for the past 4 decades.
📢 INEQUALITY GRAPHIC OF THE WEEK (No.1) 🔽
A century’s worth of progress in reducing inequality has been thrown sharply into reverse in the past four decades.
Source: Prof. Danny Dorling
The Next Crisis: What We Think About The Future
www.dannydorling.org/books/thenex...
📢 COMING SOON... starting in February we will be launching our new "Inequality Graphic of the Week" using graphs and other content drawn from the excellent work of @dannydorling.bsky.social all with his kind encouragement and best wishes ♥️. Stay tuned folks 👀
On Wed, 21st Jan, the Scotonomics podcast episode will feature Professor Danny Dorling @dannydorling.bsky.social
Primarily, we are online to discuss his latest book: The Next Crisis. Thoughts turn to the role of the mainstream economist. Danny's book: www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc... 1/4
Is Robert Jenrick the most high profile political defector to inspire a scene in a Booker prize winner?
And it even involves corruption
David Szalay’s Flesh - which, no pun intended, left me cold - has a scene clearly based on this
www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/jenrick...
A vertical bar graph showing FTSE 100 CEOs grabbing £150,576 almost 4 times the average annual wage (£39,039) over the 12 Days of Christmas.
📢 THANK YOU for your support this year ♥️ Below is a reminder of the gross #inequality that ruins the UK every day. Figures are based on the High Pay Centre’s findings that, in 2024/25, the AVERAGE FTSE 100 CEO gouged a “salary” of £4,580,000. Divide by 365 and you get a daily pay out of £12,548 🤮🤮🤮
📢 WE'RE POSTING our 'Inequality Graph of the Week' series from 'The Spirit Level at 15 dataset', one graph a day (give or take...), up until Christmas. Please share widely and help us spread the word that more equal societies are fairer, greener, and healthier for everyone. No.26 🔽
Thank You! 👍♥️✊
Ending 2025:
How a student was arrested, detained, and deported over a visa issue when the pandemic delayed graduation — an ordeal that exposes the harshness of Denmark’s immigration system, now being considered for imitation by the UK.
@publicsectorfocus.bsky.social
flickread.com/edition/html...
Ending 2025:
How a student was arrested, detained, and deported over a visa issue when the pandemic delayed graduation — an ordeal that exposes the harshness of Denmark’s immigration system, now being considered for imitation by the UK.
@publicsectorfocus.bsky.social
flickread.com/edition/html...
Great to talk foreign interference and the woeful laws that are supposed to protect our democracy with @mrjamesob.bsky.social this morning
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUGf...
