Danny Dorling is professor of human geography at the University of Oxford. His latest book is Seven Children: Inequality and Britain's Next Generation, to be published in the UK and the United States in the fall of 2024 by Hurst and Oxford University Press.
The lives of seven children, each representing a different income bracket, reveal the stark realities of inequality in contemporary Britain. Even the best off of the seven is disadvantaged in the country with Europe’s fastest-rising child poverty rates.
You must have an incredibly dismal view of both human agency and human nature to believe that we will continue to live in the future much as we live today.