Danny Dorling is a professor at the School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford.
Once respectable opinion fretted about distinguishing the “deserving” poor from the “undeserving.” Today, as sentiment against the ultrarich surges, the Economist argues that it is in fact billionaires who deserve our gratitude, sympathy, and protection.
A new book examines the self-sustaining dynamic of extreme wealth and its political influence. Is it time to switch our focus from the problem of poverty to the problem posed by the rich?
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.