Danny Dorling

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...

Why my vision of a Good Society is evidence-based, not utopian We have a choice about the kind of society that we build. A fairer, more prosperous society is possible, but requires moving away from “trickle-down” economics.

“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. ....

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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 👀

The Next Crisis Every month, surveys around the world ask people to tell them what they are really thinking. The results are at times reassuring, some-times chilling and often unexpected. In The Next Crisis, leading ...

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

Jenrick fast-tracked Westferry decision to save Desmond £45m Housing secretary Robert Jenrick was ‘insistent’ on pushing through the 1,500-home Westferry Printworks scheme, saving its backer Conservative party donor Richard Desmond £45 million, documents reveal

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! 👍♥️✊

Read the digital edition of today!

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.
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Read the digital edition of today!

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...

''Our Lobbying System is a Total Joke': Peter Geoghegan Tells James O'Brien YouTube video by Democracy for Sale

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...

EU Erasmus scheme to reopen to UK students for first time since Brexit Deal agreed for £570m to rejoin exchange programme in 2027, fulfilling Labour election manifesto pledge

🙂 Our slow crawl back towards the post-Imperial EU lifeboat continues. It would be so much easier if Labour simply came out for rejoining. Support for Brexit continues to fall... www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Westminster needs to follow Scotland in tackling child poverty | British Politics and Policy at LSE The annual figures released show that child poverty is rising in England. In fact, the only place across the UK where child poverty has fallen in the last decade is Scotland. Danny Dorling argues that...

If anyone knows, it's probably @dannydorling.bsky.social - don't know if it's too early yet to show up on the graphs... blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...

‘Empathy that lasts a lifetime’: charity bridges gap between Bradford schools Pupils from schools with differing demographics meet and play under charity scheme set up after city’s 2001 riots

📢 A nice story for a change 🔽. This is how you defeat the far-right. The govt should ensure schemes like this spread across the country. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

📢 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.18 🔽
Thank You! 👍♥️✊

Former Dulwich pupil says Farage told him: ‘That’s the way back to Africa’ Exclusive: Yinka Bankole says he was compelled to speak out after Reform leader’s attempts to dismiss hurt of alleged targets

🚨 .... he would always remember what he described as a “look of hatred he had for me, seemingly simply for existing” ... Without knowing my name, but just looking at me with what appeared to be no appreciation of my humanity and simply because of how I looked.” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Messy, combative and intoxicatingly fierce – don’t write off Your Party just yet | Andy Beckett Spending time with its activists, I’ve seen signs of a refreshing challenge to stale mainstream politics, says Guardian columnist Andy Beckett

📢 For a bit of balance, a positive report on Your Party...🔽 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

How effective will government policies announced this week be in lifting British children out of poverty? Read 'Seven Children' by @dannydorling.bsky.social to consider the depths of inequality. Just named a 'book of the year' by @foreignaffairs.com & 50% off right now:

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📢 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.12 🔽
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Same on radio 4. I now view the hourly bulletins as joke news, turn it down and smdh about how insidious it all is. Like we aren't supposed to notice how downgraded bbc news content has become. Fiona Bruce popped up in a trailer the other day and I skipped faster than the speed of light.

I know I rant about this all the time but the rabid - and omnipresence - anti immigrant line on BBC 6 music news is so jarring

Feels like a text book example of how an Overton window is shifted

Next Thursday come join us for a talk from @andrewseaton.bsky.social about his new research on coal! Comment from @dannydorling.bsky.social .

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

📢 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.11 🔽
Thank You! 👍♥️✊

Has Rachel Reeves made the right calls in this budget? Our panel responds | Polly Toynbee and others After a tumultuous run-up to a make-or-break moment for the government, has the chancellor struck the right balance?

📢 Tend to agree that the rich weren't hit nearly hard enough in the Budget but the lifting of the 2-child benefit cap is a welcome, moral, and long overdue step in the right direction... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

📢 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.10 🔽
Thank You! 👍♥️✊