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Latest news about Danny Dorling,Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography, University of Oxford and author of many books and other publications.

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  Seven Children: Inequality and Britain’s Next Generation by Danny Dorling review – essential reading
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  It begins: "Argentina has passed a new tax ...- dubbed the "millionaire's tax" - by 42 votes to 26 on Friday. Those with assets worth more than 200 million pesos ($2.5m; £1.8m) - some 12,000 people - will have to pay." From 3.5% to 5.25% of their wealthbbc.co.uk/news/world-lat…
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  The biggest story in the UK should not be about Brexit (or even the election) but about life expectancy. What is happening to the public's health in the UK will have very long term effects and implications - for decades to come. It goes mostly unreported -
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  “Covid-19 doesn’t just call the Brexit campaign’s bluff. It questions the way we have allowed our society to be run”
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  "In this counterintuitive and eye-opening book, Dorling explodes the prevalent myth of acceleration and shows a beneficial slowdown is already happening - and needs to happen.”— Vanessa Baird, New Internationalist Read the first chapter of Slowdown here: ow.ly/eItE50yZrcf
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  Anyone care to try to guess how large the crowds will be to greet Greta, when she arrives? Those who have criticised her have only succeeded in letting more know she is coming. All it takes to start something good is one person doing the right thing. That's all it has ever taken.
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  Hugh Grant's dad does the maths. Here's how you can do it too. 1) Go to the BBC 2017 election website and type in your post code 2) work out which party came second 3) Know that almost always that party is the only serious challenger 4) Don't be misled.
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  The lowest support for the Brexit party is among those households in the UK living on the lowest of incomes. The greatest support in found among those households with a household income of £40,000 a year or more; but, even among, them the Conservatives now poll in fourth place...
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  A moral question as "...the bishop of Leeds, told the Observer: “...Ministers have clearly been told to tweet support for Cummings. What price conscience? Or integrity? Or credibility? Or competence at a time when leadership can only be rooted in trust?”
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  Mental distress has external causes: 'When large numbers of people become unwell, we need to look beyond biology and consider what is happening at the societal level.' dannydorling.org/?p=6591
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  Almost no women in the UK under the age of 55 would vote for the Brexit party. The Conservative party relies on women aged 55+, more than any other groups. A majority of women aged under 35 support Labour. What happens if daughters start to speak about politics to their mothers?
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  "The NHS is not a charity and it isn’t staffed by heroes. It has been run into the ground by successive governments and now we are reaping the rewards of that neglect, on the background of the public health impact of years of rampant inequality in the UK." theguardian.com/society/2020/m…
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  Someone with a lot of money knew something at 8 minutes before the polls closed today and brought pound sterling....