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Danny Dorling

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Name: Danny Dorling

First reported 4 hours ago - Updated 4 hours ago - 1 reports

The unsustainable wealth of the £1m household | Danny Dorling

A tenth of UK households now own at least £1m in assets. But the bubble will burst – and we'll emerge a more equal society One British household in every 10 now has total assets exceeding £1m, according to a new book based on work by researchers at the ... [Published Guardian.co.uk - 4 hours ago]

Entities: Scotland, National Equality Panel, Danny Dorling, Inequality, London

First reported 5 hours ago - Updated 5 hours ago - 1 reports

The Labour Party (United Kingdom)

The Fiction of Gatsby

"In Britain and America, inequality is now back to Gatsby-esque levels." So wrote Aditya Chakrabortty, Guardian economics leader-writer, yesterday. It is just not true. I don’t know as much about America, but it certainly isn’t true about Britain.It is ... [Published The Independent - 5 hours ago]

Entities: Inequality, The Labour Party (United Kingdom), Tony Blair

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 1 reports

Top writers, speakers and thinkers to descend York for Festival of Ideas

THIS year's York Festival of Ideas, which kicks off on June 13, will be tackling the North-South divide head on.A host of top writers, speakers and thinkers will be descending on the city for the two-week festival.Author and South Bank Show presenter ... [Published York Press - May 21 2013]

Entities: PETER LORD, Melvyn Bragg, Zoe Williams, Peter Watson, Michael Wood

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 20 2013 - 1 reports

Nick Clegg

The Great Gatsby's world is every bit as unequal as Britain under the coalition | Aditya Chakrabortty

The wealthy in America and Britain no longer resemble the prewar elite, but appearances cannot mask how cut off they are from the rest of us "Gatsby was overwhelmingly aware of the youth and mystery that wealth imprisons and preserves, of the freshness ... [Published Guardian.co.uk - May 20 2013]

Entities: Inequality, United Kingdom, caste system, The Great Gatsby, Nick Clegg

First reported May 15 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 1 reports

OECD

Poor hit hardest by financial crisis and welfare cuts will make it worse

The poorest people in Britain have been disproportionately affected by the financial crisis and recent welfare cuts may drive up inequality levels further, according to new research. Click graphic to enlargeIncome inequality increased by more in the first ... [Published The Independent - May 15 2013]

Entities: OECD, Social Welfare, Inequality, United Kingdom, Financial Crisis

First reported May 10 2013 - Updated May 10 2013 - 1 reports

Pirate Party

On this week's New Statesman podcast

The future of the Lib Dems, social mobility, techno with Pirate Party and Edmund Burke.The latest episode of the New Statesman podcast is now available to download, featuring:George Eaton and Rafael Behr discussing the future of the Liberal Democrats. ... [Published New Statesman - May 10 2013]

Entities: Edmund Burke, Pirate Party, Liberal Democrats, Danny Dorling

First reported May 09 2013 - Updated May 09 2013 - 1 reports

Things To Do In London This Weekend: 11-12 May

All weekendDULWICH FESTIVAL : Street artists interpret old masters from the Picture Gallery into local murals, there’s live music at the EDT, a choral festival, family concert and a curious exchange with a fair on Goose Green on Sunday. Fun starts on ... [Published Londonist - May 09 2013]

Entities: London, David McAlmont, Church of St Mary Magdalene, Danny Dorling

First reported Apr 20 2013 - Updated Apr 20 2013 - 1 reports

PICS: The global financial crisis summarised in five graphics

A WORLD-RENOWNED GEOGRAPHER and ?social mapper? is coming to Dublin next week to speak about the impact of the financial crisis on the housing market ? and its impact on social justice.Danny Dorling is Professor of Human Geography at the University of ... [Published TheJournal.ie - Apr 20 2013]

Entities: Danny Dorling, Royal Irish Academy, Financial Crisis

First reported Apr 19 2013 - Updated Apr 20 2013 - 2 reports

Mapping Britain: Size matters

HOW to depict Britain’s extraordinary North-South political divide? An article in this week’s issue did so with words, but showing it graphically was slightly harder. That is because identifying the political affiliation of parliamentary constituencies ... [Published The Economist - Apr 20 2013]

Entities: Danny Dorling, United Kingdom, University of Sheffield

First reported Apr 10 2013 - Updated Apr 10 2013 - 1 reports

Margaret Thatcher made Britain a less, not more, desirable place to do business | Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett

The ex-PM's greatest mistake was her failure to recognise that social cohesion is crucial to long-term economic growthMargaret Thatcher's most important long-term legacy is likely to be the huge rise in inequality that she caused. The widening of income ... [Published Guardian.co.uk - Apr 10 2013]

Entities: Inequality, Margaret Thatcher, Kate Pickett, Richard Wilkinson

First reported Mar 19 2013 - Updated Mar 19 2013 - 1 reports

32 stops: Different destinations on a roller coaster underground

Danny Dorling spoke to Socialist Worker about his new book 32 Stops and what the Central Line tells us about the growing inequality in Britain todayThe London Undergound is 150 years old this year and to celebrate Penguin has published a set of 12 books, ... [Published Socialist Worker - Mar 19 2013]

Entities: Roller Coaster, Census, Danny Dorling, Inequality

First reported Nov 23 2012 - Updated Nov 23 2012 - 1 reports

Australian marine scientists’ non-discovery of a Pacific island

A 25-day expedition by Australia's Marine National Facility led to a non-discovery of sorts --- with the marine scientists finding that an island called the Sandy Island, believed to be located in the Coral Sea off Australia, actually does not exist at ... [Published Topnews.in - Nov 23 2012]

Entities: Danny Dorling, Society of Cartographers, Seaton, Admiralty

Quotes

...Many of the effects of inequality have long lag periods. As Danny Dorling says in his 2004 study of the rise in violence : "those who perpetrated the social violence that was done to the lives of young men starting some 20 years ago [the mid-80s] are the prime suspects for most of the murders in britain." The young men were those whose childhood was blighted by the effects of relative poverty and inequality on family life

Margaret Thatcher made Britain a less, not more, desirable place to do business | Richard Wilkins ... [Published Guardian.co.uk - Apr 10 2013]

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Australian marine scientists’ non-discovery of a Pacific island [Published Topnews.in - Nov 23 2012]

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The unsustainable wealth of the £1m household \|... [Published Guardian.co.uk - 4 hours ago]
The Fiction of Gatsby [Published The Independent - 5 hours ago]
Top writers, speakers and thinkers to descend Y... [Published York Press - May 21 2013]
The Great Gatsby's world is every bit as unequa... [Published Guardian.co.uk - May 20 2013]
How social mobility got stuck [Published New Statesman - May 16 2013]
Poor hit hardest by financial crisis and welfar... [Published The Independent - May 15 2013]
On this week's New Statesman podcast [Published New Statesman - May 10 2013]
Things To Do In London This Weekend: 11-12 May [Published Londonist - May 09 2013]
In this week’s new Statesman: Eton Mess [Published New Statesman - May 09 2013]
PICS: The global financial crisis summarised in... [Published TheJournal.ie - Apr 20 2013]
Mapping Britain: Size matters [Published The Economist - Apr 20 2013]
Size matters [Published Graphic detail - The Economist - Apr 19 2013]
York Professionals plan ‘Downton Abbey’ style d... [Published One & Other - Apr 15 2013]
Margaret Thatcher made Britain a less, not more... [Published Guardian.co.uk - Apr 10 2013]
32 stops: Different destinations on a roller co... [Published Socialist Worker - Mar 19 2013]
Four Labour myths that scapegoat immigrants [Published open Democracy News Analysis - - Dec 17 2012]
Australian marine scientists’ non-discovery of ... [Published Topnews.in - Nov 23 2012]

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Size matters [Published Graphic detail - The Economist - Apr 19 2013] HOW to depict Britain’s extraordinary North-South political divide? An article in this week’s issue did so with words, but showing it graphically was slightly harder. That is because identifying the political affiliation of parliamentary constituencies ...