Professor Danny Dorling: Commentaries
| 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 |
| 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2002 | 2000 and earlier |
2013
- Dorling, D. (2013). A global population of 10 billion is nothing to worry about, The Guardian, June 14th.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/jun/14/global-population-10-billion-worry - Dorling, D. (2013). The unsustainable wealth of the £1m household. The Guardian, Comment is free, 22 May 22.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/may/22/unsustainable-wealth-1m-household - Dorling, D. (2013). In place of fear: It’s time to tackle alarming health inequalities. Left Foot Forward, 21 May.
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http://www.leftfootforward.org/2013/05/its-time-to-tackle-the-alarming-trends-in-health-inequalities - Dorling, D. (2013). In Place of Fear: Narrowing Health Inequalities. The Centre for Labour and Social Studies (CLASS), 21 May.
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http://classonline.org.uk/pubs/item/in-place-of-fear - Dorling, D. (2013). It is necessarily so. Significance Magazine, 25 April 25, 10(2), 37-39.
Full-text PDF - Dorling, D. (2013). What Class are you? Statistics Views - Feature, 11 April.
http://www.statisticsviews.com/details/feature/4582421/What-Class-Are-You.html
Full-text PDF - Dorling, D. (2013). Tolerance, inequality and the recession. Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute Blog, 1 March.
http://speri.dept.shef.ac.uk/2013/03/01/tolerance-inequality-recession/ - Dorling, D. (2013). Local government without the census – it's a frightening vision. The Guardian Newspaper on-line, Local Government Network, 24 January.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/local-government-network/2013/jan/24/local-government-without-census-frightening?INTCMP=SRCH - Dorling, D. (2013). Prospects for 2013. New Left Project Blog, 23 January.
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http://www.newleftproject.org/index.php/site/blog_comments/prospects_for_2013_danny_dorling - Dorling, D. (2013). Why do we need a census? Policy Press Blog, 11 January.
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http://policypress.wordpress.com/2013/01/11/why-do-we-need-a-census/
2012
- Hennig, B.D. and Dorling. D. (2012). Mapping Britain’s Super-rich. Political Insight, 3(3), 42.
Full-text PDF - Dorling. D. (2012). Ed, English and Embarrassment. The Huffington Post, 14 December.
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/danny-dorling/ed-english-and-embarrassment_b_2299207.html
Full-text PDF - Statistical Views and Dorling. D. (2012). Data visualization, social stats and how stats students love to party, Wiley Blog, 23 November.
http://www.statisticsviews.com/details/feature/3738241/Data-visualization-and-partying-stats-students.html
Full-text PDF - Hennig, B.D. and Dorling. D. (2012). In Focus: Financing The European Union. Political Insight, 3(2), 34.
Full-text PDF - Dorling. D. (2012). On the rack of inequality, summary: The gap between the richest and poorest in Britain is widening to new extremes, SPERI Blog, 15 November.
http://speri.dept.shef.ac.uk/2012/11/15/rack-inequality/
Full-text PDF - Hennig, B.D. and Dorling. D. (2012). In Focus: London’s political landscapes. Political Insight, 3(1), 38.
Full-text PDF - Dorling. D. (2012). Private concerns. Funding for Independent Schools Magazine, October.
http://www.fismagazine.co.uk/financial/investment/private_investments.html
Full-text PDF - Dorling. D. (2012). Population: the future is caring. The Guardian, 1 October.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/oct/01/population-future-caring-ageing-good-news
Full-text PDF - Dorling. D. (2012). A conversation on the road from the Barbican, Review Essay: Ferninand Mount’s The New Few. Renewal, 20(2-3), 130-133.
http://www.renewal.org.uk/articles/a-conversion-on-the-road-from-the-barbican/
Full-text PDF - Dorling. D. (2012). Rack of Inequality. New Left Project, 25 September.
http://www.newleftproject.org/index.php/site/article_comments/rack_of_inequality
Full-text PDF - Dorling. D. (2012). Tax Dodging and Inequalities in Wealth in the UK. Tax Justice Focus, 7(2), 6-7.
http://taxjustice.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/tax-justice-focus-inequality-edition.html
Full-text PDF - Dorling. D. (2012). How to visualise social structure, The Guardian, Datablog, 24 July.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2012/jul/24/danny-dorling-visualise-social-structure
Full-text PDF - Dorling. D. (2012). Patterns of Violence. Letter, Journal of the Royal Society of Arts, Summer, 47
Full-text PDF - Dorling. D. (2012). What’s the point of Cartography. 'Eureka Column', The Times Magazine, 5 April.
Full-text PDF - Dorling, D. (2012). By ’eck, It’s still grim up north (and further south than you think)…. Big Issue Magazine, 3 April.
http://www.bigissue.com/features/829/way-we-live-now
Full-text PDF - Dorling, D. (2012). These five things that are connected – but by what? Compass Blog, 3 April.
http://www.compassonline.org.uk/news/item.asp?n=14968
Full-text PDF - Dorling, D. (2012). Budget 2012: The myth that lower taxes for the rich generates more tax revenue. Left Foot Forward, 27 March.
http://www.leftfootforward.org/2012/03/budget-2012-danny-dorling-the-case-for-austerity-amongst-the-rich/
Full-text PDF - Dorling, D. (2012). A little austerity for the rich could go a long way. 'Comment is free', The Guardian, 27 March.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/mar/27/austerity-for-the-rich
Full-text PDF - Dorling, D. and Steen, J.J. (2012). Velkommen til den nye værdikamp (Welcome to the new value match). Information Denmark, 13 March.
http://www.information.dk/295979 - Dorling, D. (2012). Book review: What if it were not the custard cream that did for them? Disease Maps: Epidemics on the Ground. Tom Koch. International Journal of Epidemiology.
doi:10.1093/ije/dys034 - Dorling, D. (2012). Disadvantage and Social Structure. In: Kjartan Páll Sveinsson (ed.) Criminal Justice v. Racial Justice, Minority ethnic overrepresentation in the criminal justice system. Runnymede Trust, London.
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2011
- Hennig, B.D. and Dorling, D. (2011). In Focus: Americas Debt to the World. Political Insight, 2(3), 34.
Full-text PDF - Dorling, D. and Bennett, J. (2011). Interview. Prison Service Journal, 11, 198, 55-60.
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http://www.crimeandjustice.org.uk/opus1878/PSJ_November_2011_No._198.pdf - Dorling, D. (2011). This is what austerity looks like. False Economy Website, Comment, 15 November.
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http://falseeconomy.org.uk/blog/this-is-what-austerity-looks-like - Dorling, D. (2011). Border controls? Here's a long line of reasons to relax. The Guardian, 9 November.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/nov/08/border-controls - Dorling, D. (2011). Possible 'peak population': a world without borders? Inclusive Democracy: Open Democracy website, 18 October.
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http://www.opendemocracy.net/5050/danny-dorling/possible-peak-population'-world-without-borders - Lee, C. and Dorling, D. (2011). The Geography of Poverty, Socialist Review, October 2011.
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http://www.socialistreview.org.uk/article.php?articlenumber=11785 - Dorling, D. (2011). Poor Kids – Interview with Kerry O'Brien. Four Corners, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 3 October.
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http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/stories/2011/10/04/3331769.htm - Dorling, D. and Hennig, B.D. (2011). In Focus: Global Population shifts. Political Insight, 2(34), back cover.
Full-text PDF - Dorling, D. (2011). A-levels 2011: Students' futures have been stolen from them. The Guardian, 16 August.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2011/aug/15/a-level-students-face-debt
Full-text PDF - Dorling, D. and Mills, T. (2011). The Geography of Injustice (Part 2). New Left Project, 17 June.
http://www.newleftproject.org/index.php/site/article_comments/the_geography_of_injustice_part_2
Full-text PDF - Dorling, D. and Mills, T. (2011). The Geography of Injustice (Part 1). New Left Project, 14 June.
http://www.newleftproject.org/index.php/site/article_comments/the_geography_of_injustice_part_1
http://www.zcommunications.org/the-geography-of-injustice-by-danny-dorling
Full-text PDF - Dorling, D. (2011). We're all...just little bits of history repeating (Part 2 –The Future), Significance Magazine Website, 14 June.
http://www.significancemagazine.org/details/webexclusive/1082185/Were-all___just-little-bits-of-history-repeating-Part-2---The-Future.html
Full-text PDF - Dorling, D. (2011). We're all...just little bits of history repeating (Part 1 - History), Significance Magazine Website, 13 June.
http://www.significancemagazine.org/details/webexclusive/1081285/Were-all___just-little-bits-of-history-repeating-Part-1---History.html
Full-text PDF - Dorling, D. (2011). How low can you go?, Comment article on inequality in Liberal Democrat Voice, 25 May.
http://www.libdemvoice.org/danny-dorling-24194.html
Full-text PDF - Dorling, D. (2011). How will we care for the centenarians of the future? The Guardian, 24 May.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/may/23/future-policy-elderly-care-on-own
Full-text PDF - Dorling, D. (2011). So You think you know about Britain? Saga Magazine, April, 176-177.
Full-text PDF - Dorling, D. (2011). Unique Britain, Open Democracy Website article, 15 May.
http://www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom/danny-dorling/unique-britain
Full-text PDF - Dorling, D. (2011) Government policies have increased social inequalities in the past
year, Compass website commentary, 18 April.
http://www.compassonline.org.uk/news/item.asp?n=12618
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- Dorling, D. (2011). "Q: Why fill in the census form? A: To help others", Independent on Sunday, 27 March.
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- Dorling, D. (2011). More division over multiculturalism. Letter, The Guardian, 9 February. http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2011/feb/09/more-division-over-multiculturalism
- Dorling, D. (2011). The Third Degree: Professor Danny Dorling. Interview in University of Sheffield's, Overview Magazine, January.
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2010
- Dorling, D. (2010). Britain must close the great pay divide, Observer, 28 November.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/nov/28/pay-inequality-hutton-review
Full-text PDF - Dorling, D. (2010). Letter: Boris is right to fight housing cuts, London Evening Standard, 1 November, 47.
Full-text PDF - Dorling, D. (2010). Clearing the poor away, Socialist Review, November.
http://www.socialistreview.org.uk/article.php?articlenumber=11430
Full-text PDF - Dorling, D. (2010). Are students pre-programmed to live with inequality?, The Guardian (Education), 26 October.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2010/oct/26/young-people-educational-inequality
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Corresponding film clips on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/viewsoftheworld/ - Dorling, D. (2010). Youth unemployment must be tackled now, The Guardian (Society), 14 September.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/joepublic/2010/sep/14/young-people-long-term-unemployment
Full-text PDF - Dorling, D. (2010). Young people count cost of a crisis they did nothing to cause, Yorkshire Post Newspaper, 7 September.
http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/opinion/Danny-Dorling-Young-people-count.6518488.jp
Full-text PDF - Dorling, D. (2010). Brutal budget to entrench inequality, Socialist Review 349, July/August, 5.
http://www.socialistreview.org.uk/article.php?articlenumber=11325
Full-text PDF - Dorling, D. (2010). Interview for Five Books: Danny Dorling on Inequality, 3 July, London.
http://fivebooks.com/interviews/danny-dorling-on-inequality
Full-text PDF - Dorling, D. (2010). Are the times changing back? There are painful similarities between life lived in London now and the unjust inequalities of Victorian times, New London Review, 2 July, 16-17.
Full-text PDF - Dorling, D. (2010). Axing the child poverty measure is wrong, Society Guardian, 16 June, 4.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/joepublic/2010/jun/16/axing-child-poverty-measure-wrong
Full-text PDF - Dorling, D. (2010). Redrawing the World, Refugee Action Blog, 28 May.
Full-text PDF - Dorling, D. (2010). Are the First Cuts the Deepest?, Policy Press Blog, 24 May.
Full-text PDF - Dorling, D. (2010). The super-rich are still soaring away, New Statesman rolling blog, 27 April.
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Published at http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/the-staggers/2010/04/super-rich-rise-inequality - Dorling, D. (2010). Our grandchildren will wonder why we are addicted to social inequality, The Yorkshire Post, 26 April.
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Published at http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/opinion/Danny-Dorling-Our-grandchildren-will.6254756.jp - Dorling, D. (2010). World Health day focus on urbanization commentary, CNN, 7 April.
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Published at http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/04/06/world.health.day.urban/index.html - Dorling, D. (2010). Thought for the future, Yorkshire Futures News, 8 April.
Full-text PDF - Dorling, D. (2010). Words count, letter, New Statesman, 8 February, 6.
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PDF (as submitted) - Dorling, D. (2010). Expert view: one of Labour's great successes, The Guardian Newspaper, 28 January, 10.
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Published at http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/mortarboard/2010/jan/28/labours-great-successes-university-access-danny-dorling - Dorling, D. (2010). Glass conflict: David Cameron's claim to understand poverty and his wish to 'eradicate dependency' seem wide of the mark, Roof Magazine, 35(1), 10.
Full-text PDF - Dorling, D. and Hennig, B. D. (2010). In Focus: Government Debt. Political Insight 1(3): 106.
Full-text PDF - Dorling, D. and Hennig, B. D. (2010). In Focus: General Election 2010. Political Insight 1(2): 72.
Full-text PDF - Pattie, C., Hennig, B. and Dorling, D. (2010). In Focus: US Midterm Elections 2010 (forthcoming).
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2009
- Dorling, D. (2009). Daylight Robbery: There's no shortage of housing, the stock has just been shared out abysmally - and that's the fault of the market, Roof Magazine, 34(3), 11.
Full-text PDF - Dorling, D. (2009). Speech on behalf of all other award winners, Annual General Meeting of the Royal Geographical Society with the IBG, The Geographical Journal, 175(3), 235-236.
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doi:10.1111/j.1475-4959.2009.00335.x - Dorling, D. (2009). Review of Molly Scott Cato's: Green economics: an introduction to theory, policy and practice. Journal of Economic Geography
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doi:10.1093/jeg/lbp028 - Dorling, D. (2009). It makes no sense at this point to talk about the end of the recession. Comment, The Independent, 12 June 2009.
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Published at http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/can-we-really-say- that-the-recession-is-over-1703223.html - Dorling, D. (2009). How much evidence do you need? Ethnicity, harm and crime.
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Published at http://www.crimeandjustice.org.uk/ehcresponses.html
2008
- Dorling, D. (2008). Supplementary memorandum from Professor Danny Dorling, pages Ev 323- 324 House of Commons Transport Committee: Ending the Scandal of Complacency: Road Safety beyond 2010.
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Pages extracted from full report - Barford, A. and Dorling, D. (2008). What's it to do with the price of fish? GCSE Geography Review, 19(3), 6-8.
Full-text PDF - Dorling, D. (2008). If I were King. Big Issue Magazine, December 1-5, 46.
Full-text PDF - Dorling, D. (2008). Worlds apart: how inequality breeds fear and prejudice in Britain through the eyes of two very different teenage girls. Society Guardian, 12 November 2008.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2008/nov/12/rich-kid-poor-kid-inequality
Full-text PDF - Dorling, D. (2008). Do three points make a trend? Compass online (4 November 2008).
http://www.compassonline.org.uk/news/item.asp?n=3340
Full-text PDF - Dorling, D. (2008). When the social divide deepens. Public Servant Magazine, May 2008, 3.
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2007
- Dorling, D. (2007). Review of Christian Jacob, The Sovereign Map: Theoretical Approaches in Cartography through History. H-HistGeog, H-Net Reviews, March 2007.
http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=92111211471469
Full-text PDF - Dorling, D. (2007). Britain - split and divided by inequality. Rapport: Journal of the Community and Youth Worker's Union, October Issue, 4-5.
Full-text PDF - Dorling, D. (2007). Learning the Hard Way. Regions (Newsletter of the Regional Studies Association), 266, 2-4.
Full-text PDF - Dorling, D. (2007). Unequal Britain. Socialist Worker, Issue 2061, 28 July 2007.
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Link to article on Socialist Worker website - Dorling, D. (2007). Commentary: The trouble with moving upmarket. The Guardian, 17 July 2007.
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2006
- Dorling, D. (2006). Review: Simon Briscoe (2005) Britain in Numbers: The Essential Statistics; Politico's, London. Radical Statistics, 90, 19-27.
Full-text PDF - Dorling, D. (2006). Commentary: A place where everyone matters: crime and poverty, Editorial, Environment and Planning A, 38, 1993-1998.
doi:10.1068/a39217
Full-text PDF - Dorling, D. (2006). Commentary: The fading of the dream: widening inequalities in life expectancy in America. International Journal of Epidemiology. 35(4): 979-980
Full-text PDF - Dorling, D. (2006). Policing the borders of crime: who decides research? Criminal Justice Matters, 62 Winter 2005/06
Full Text PDF - Dorling, D. (2006). Inequality Kills. Red Pepper
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2005
- Corver, M. and Dorling, D. (2005). Little progress towards a fairer education system, Unpublished commentary
Full-text PDF - Dorling, D. (2005). Why Trevor is wrong about race ghettos, The Observer, 25 September, 14-15.
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Full unedited version sent by Danny (PDF) - Dorling, D. (2005). Conference Key note speech The Geography of Social Inequality and Health Swiss Public Health Conference 2005
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2004
- Dorling, D (2004). Top up fees and medicine: Waive repayments completely if working life is spent in the NHS, BMJ (published unrefereed letter); 328:712.
doi:10.1136/bmj.328.7441.712
2002
- Dorling, D. (2002). Book Review: of Bradshaw, B. and Sainsbury, R., (eds.) (2000) Researching poverty. Gower, Aldershot. Progress in Human Geography, 26(1), 119-120
- McCloskey, B., Macfarlane, A., Dorling, D., et al. (2002). Letter: Select committee's report used parliamentary privilege unacceptably. BMJ, 324: 1584.
doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7353.1584/a
2000 and earlier
- O'Neale Roach, J., Dorling, D. (2000). Recruiting the wrong students. studentBMJ editorial; 8:178-9
Link to commentary - Dorling, D. (1993). Negative Image. Roof: Shelter's Housing Magazine. May/June 1993, 18.
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