

Prof Danny Dorling
Halford Mackinder Professor in Geography at the University of Oxford
Professor Danny Dorling is a geographer and author. He was previously a professor of Geography at the University of Sheffield, and before then at the University of Leeds. He has also worked in Newcastle, Bristol, and New Zealand. In 2015, he was a commissioner of the London Fairness Commission, which reported in 2016. Much of Danny’s work is available open access on his website.
With a group of colleagues, he helped create the websites Worldmapper and Londonmapper, which visualise socioeconomic data through infographics in the form of modified maps. His work concerns issues of housing, health, employment, education, wealth and poverty. He is a patron of the charity Roadpeace, an Honorary Patron of Heeley City Farm, Sheffield, and Senior Associate member of the Royal Society of Medicine. His most recent books are Peak Inequality (Policy Press, 2018) and Rule Britannia: Brexit and the End of Empire co-authored with Professor Sally Tomlinson (Biteback, 2019). He tweets @DannyDorling.


Inequality, Brexit and the End of Empire

2019 General Election: Analysis of Party Manifesto Pledges

Jubilee 2022: Defending free tuition

Jubilee 2022: Writing off the student debt

PEF Council letter to FT on social infrastructure
The regeneration of Britain’s ‘national infrastructure’ must include investment in ‘social infrastructure’ such as childcare, schools and universities, regional theatres, orchestras, common spaces, and local sports.

The OBR approach is wrong – PEF Council letter to FT
We have reviewed the fiscal sustainability report published by the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) on 14 July 2020. We believe that its approach to economics is wrong. The view it presents does not, in our opinion, help economic recovery.

The 2020 Budget
The day following the 2020 budget, PEF interviewed five members of the PEF Council on the new budget and the changing economic direction of the United Kingdom. Here are the interviews in full.

New Labour, Inequality and the 1%
In the runup to the publication of the new, third edition of his book ‘Inequality and the 1%’, Danny Dorling writes for the PEF blog on New Labour and the recent history of inequality in the UK.

Twelve facts you may have missed as the UK missed its first Brexit deadline
On 29 March, while Brexit monopolised public attention, the ONS released a large amount of data that serves as an indictment of the UK economy.

Mis(Rule) Britannia: Brexit is the last gasp of empire
Brexit represents the last gasp of the British empire. The men who have led it cannot accept that the colonial era, and the exploited wealth that came with it, is over.

Latest GDP figures: the PEF Council reacts
Today the ONS released its first estimates of GDP growth in April-June 2018. Here, the PEF Council react to the figures and tell us what they mean for the UK economy.

What might a progressive economy look like?
When change truly happens it at first strikes seasoned commentators as a pipe-dream; then undesirable; then ‘just about possible’ once the clamour for change becomes overwhelming. Finally change happens and the memories of the commentators change with it.