Podcast appearances and mentions of Danny Dorling

There is a parallel world which operates under different rules and benefits those with money and power. That's the argument made by the journalist Atossa Araxia Abrahamian in her new book The Hidden Globe: How Wealth Hacks the world. She traces the rise of a freeports, charter cities and offshore havens. Danny Dorling contends that we're not very good at spotting the real crises we face today. In The Next Crisis: What We Think About the Future, he explains why the most urgent global crises are rarely the ones that hit the headlines. From inequality, immigration and international conflicts to climate change, pandemics and tsunamis, he challenges our assumptions about the threats we face and how we should think about our uncertain future.It is time to reclaim online spaces, says Adele Zeynep Walton. In her new book Logging Off: The Human Cost of Our Digital World she explores how the price of the connections and conveniences of online life has been the mental health of a generation. She says that social media platforms and digital technology are making us vulnerable and it is time these spaces were governed and regulated.Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe Producer: Ruth Watts

This episode was recorded as part of a live panel event at Pelican House on the 13 April 2025 celebrating the London launch of Max's board game Billionaires and Guillotines, published by Pluto Press. In this episode we talked about the role of games and play in the coming revolution; the game mechanics of Billionaires & Guillotines and what its format might offer players; why Max chose the guillotine as the instrument of abolition; and we even played a game role-playing a war profiteer, an aristocrat and a tech overlord. Danny Dorling is Oxford geography professor and bestselling author of books including Seven Children: Inequality and Britain's Next Generation and Peak Injustice: Solving Britain's Inequality Crisis. Meg Jayanth is an award-winning narrative and game designer whose credits include 80 Days, Sunless Sea and Horizon Zero Dawn. Max Haiven is Canada Research Chair in the Radical Imagination, writer of books including Palm Oil: The Grease of Empire and Revenge Capitalism: The Ghosts of Empire, the Demons of Capital, and the Settling of Unpayable Debts. Against the Fascist Game is the second season of The Exploits of Play, a podcast about games and capitalism. Join host Max Haiven and producer Faye Harvey as they interview game designers, critical theorists and grassroots activists struggling with games to understand, confront and abolish the rising threat of fascism in our times. We ask questions including: how is the far-right around the world using games as platforms for ideology, recruiting and violence, both close to home and around the world? How have vicious reactionary politics emerged from a form of capitalism where most people feel trapped in an unwinnable game? What do fascism and antifascism mean today? And what role, if any do play and games have in confronting the fascist threat and creating a new world? The Exploits of Play is a production of Weird Economies, a platform for exploring the intricacies and excesses of our economic imaginaries, in cooperation with RiVAL: The ReImagining Value Action Lab.

This episode was recorded as part of a live panel event at Pelican House on the 13 April 2025 celebrating the London launch of Max's board game Billionaires and Guillotines, published by Pluto Press. In this episode we talked about the role of games and play in the coming revolution; the game mechanics of Billionaires & Guillotines and what its format might offer players; why Max chose the guillotine as the instrument of abolition; and we even played a game role-playing a war profiteer, an aristocrat and a tech overlord.Danny Dorling is Oxford geography professor and bestselling author of books including Seven Children: Inequality and Britain's Next Generation and Peak Injustice: Solving Britain's Inequality Crisis.Meg Jayanth is an award-winning narrative and game designer whose credits include 80 Days, Sunless Sea and Horizon Zero Dawn.Max Haiven is Canada Research Chair in the Radical Imagination, writer of books including Palm Oil: The Grease of Empire and Revenge Capitalism: The Ghosts of Empire, the Demons of Capital, and the Settling of Unpayable Debts.Against the Fascist Game is the second season of The Exploits of Play, a podcast about games and capitalism. Join host Max Haiven and producer Faye Harvey as they interview game designers, critical theorists and grassroots activists struggling with games to understand, confront and abolish the rising threat of fascism in our times. We ask questions including: how is the far-right around the world using games as platforms for ideology, recruiting and violence, both close to home and around the world? How have vicious reactionary politics emerged from a form of capitalism where most people feel trapped in an unwinnable game? What do fascism and antifascism mean today? And what role, if any do play and games have in confronting the fascist threat and creating a new world? The Exploits of Play is a production of Weird Economies, a platform for exploring the intricacies and excesses of our economic imaginaries, in cooperation with RiVAL: The ReImagining Value Action Lab. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Today's guest is Danny Dorling, Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography at the School of Geography and the Environment, here at the University of Oxford. Danny has published (with colleagues) more than a dozen books on social inequalities in Britain and several hundred journal papers. His work concerns issues of housing, health, employment, education and poverty.  Danny is currently attached to St Peter's College in Oxford. Prepare for some fascinating insights.  Link: https://www.dannydorling.org/

Tune in to the next episode of the Read Smart Podcast, where 2022 Baillie Gifford Prize judge, Georgina Godwin, speaks to 2023 winner John Vaillant, social geographer Danny Dorling and writer and award-winning journalist Jennifer Nadel about the crucial topics which are often overlooked by mainstream media. Which topic do you think is neglected most - and why? Listen now to hear all about it. This podcast is generously supported by the Blavatnik Family Foundation. To keep up with all of our Prize news all year round, follow @BGPrize on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, TikTok and YouTube.

Danny Dorling (University of Oxford - @dannydorling @oxfordgeography) speaks with the Thinking Global team about human geography, Brexit, ‘Shattered Nation' (@VersoBooks), inequality, human progress, influenza, rising mortality rates and more. Thinking Global is affiliated with ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠E-International Relations⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ - the world's leading open access website for students and scholars of international politics. If you enjoy the output of E-International Relations, please consider a donation⁠⁠.

In Shattered Nation, Oxford Professor of Geography Danny Dorling meticulously documents how Britain over the last 40 years has been transformed by incompetence, avarice and short-termism from one of the world's leading economies, with widely admired public services, into Europe's most unequal society, afflicted by staggering levels of deprivation and social division. Dorling was joined in conversation by Leo Hollis, author of The Stones of London and Inheritance.Buy Shattered Nation from the Bookshop: lrb.me/shatterednationFind more events at the Bookshop: lrb.me/eventspod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We met with esteemed social and economic geographer Danny Dorling to talk about the forces causing Britain to be a failed state, and the inadequate response to those forces presented in the Labour party conference.  More importantly, how phoney Khan Starmer will not form a new golden horde and take Uzbekistan and therefore the world. If you want access to our Patreon bonus episodes, early releases of free episodes, and powerful Discord server, sign up here: https://www.patreon.com/trashfuture  *STREAM ALERT* Check out our Twitch stream, which airs 9-11 pm UK time every Monday and Thursday, at the following link: https://www.twitch.tv/trashfuturepodcast *WEB DESIGN ALERT* Tom Allen is a friend of the show (and the designer behind our website). If you need web design help, reach out to him here: https://www.tomallen.media/ *MILO ALERT* Check out Milo's upcoming live shows here: https://www.miloedwards.co.uk/live-shows Trashfuture are: Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Hussein (@HKesvani), Nate (@inthesedeserts), and Alice (@AliceAvizandum)

Brits seem to be more mean-spirited than ever. This is clear on social media, but also in attitudes towards poorer sections of society. How did we become so mean, and what can we do about it? Hannah Fearn is joined by professor of human geography Danny Dorling, author of new book Shattered Nation: Inequality and the Geography of A Failing State, to find out how social issues change attitudes towards those who need the most help in society – and how we can fight to be kinder.  “The UK is one of the most unequal countries in Europe.” “People spend money on private schools because they are scared.” “Those who are really comfortable don't think people should be helped out.” Book Link: https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/products/3118-shattered-nation  www.patreon.com/bunkercast  Written and presented by Hannah Fearn. Producer: Kasia Tomasiewicz with Liam Tait. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Audio production: Simon Williams. Managing Editor: Jacob Jarvis. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Shattered Nation, written by Oxford Professor Danny Dorling, demonstrates how the United Kingdom has been fundamentally damaged by 40 years of neoliberal policies of successive Conservative and Labour governments. Inequality is on the rise while life expectancy is declining and infant mortality is on the upswing. What has caused the reversal in social progress in the UK and how can it be turned around ? --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/james-herlihy/message

Today, we're reaching back "into the vault" to our Spatial Analytics and Data (SAD) interview series to bring you one of our past guests: Danny Dorling, the Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography at the University of Oxford. In this conversation, we'll talk about his life, times, and career, and also learn a little bit about who he would invite to a SAD dinner party! And: if you're curious about the SAD interviews, check out our Spatial Analytics and Data YouTube Channel (link) for the full back catalogue. And, if you'd like: let us know your story at thegladpodcast@gmail.com We'd be glad to hear from you!    Note: we recorded this interview at the height of a global pandemic from home, while we usually record GLaD in the studio. So, we're sorry for any issues with the audio quality! We hope we've gotten better since this... and we hope you enjoy! 

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Finland has ranked #1 in the World's Happiest Country listing for the sixth year in a row. How did this small Nordic country of 5 million, which 100 years ago was the poorest country in Europe and bullied by Russia for much of the 20th Century, become the happiest place in the world ? Oxford University Professor Danny Dorling breaks down the statistics and the reasons may surprise you. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/james-herlihy/message

Has Britain reached peak inequality and is it becoming more equal for the first time in a century? Danny Dorling, professor of Human Geography at the University of Oxford advances this radical argument in discussion with Deborah Hargreaves, former CEO of the High Pay Centre and Prospect's deputy editor Ellen Halliday. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Finland is the happiest country on earth. What can we learn from this Nordic nation? How is its education, health care and housing systems different to ours? Ros Taylor speaks to Danny Dorling, professor of human geography at the University of Oxford and author of Finntopia: What We Can Learn from the World's Happiest Country, to work out what makes it such a well-functioning state. “Finland has ended up doing remarkably well, if you're trying to show people what is possible and what is different, let's look there.” “Government ministers in Finland resign upon immediately making the smallest of mistakes, they simply go, no questions asked.” “There aren't good schools and bad schools, there are just good schools. Teachers have a lot of autonomy.” Written and presented by Ros Taylor. Producer Jet Gerbertson. Assistant producer Kasia Tomasiewicz. Lead producer Jacob Jarvis. Bunker music by Kenny Dickinson. Audio production by Robin Leeburn. Group Editor Andrew Harrison. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

London is a layer cake of history — and we're burrowing in deep. We're purely going to stay underground to reveal bigger stories about this storied capital.But the thing is, the further deep you go, the newer the city's subterranean structures get. It's archaeology in reverse.

London is a layer cake of history — and we're burrowing in deep. We're purely going to stay underground to reveal bigger stories about this storied capital. But the thing is, the further deep you go, the newer the city's subterranean structures get. It's archaeology in reverse.

London is a layer cake of history — and we're burrowing in deep. We're purely going to stay underground to reveal bigger stories about this storied capital. But the thing is, the further deep you go, the newer the city's subterranean structures get. It's archaeology in reverse.

The league tables that cause plenty of consternation among the Western political classes show the Nordic countries constantly at the top in education, media freedom, lack of corruption, happiness and quality of life. Ross Ashcroft is joined by geographer and author of 'Finntopia' Danny Dorling, to discuss how they got there, how they stay there, and why the UK hasn't managed to emulate their success.

Danny joined us for his annual visit to the show to outline current trends in local and global inequalities with discussions on Brexit, the war on terror, the tories and COVID-19.

飛碟聯播網《飛碟早餐 唐湘龍時間》2021.09.27 週一閱讀單元 聯經出版總編輯 涂豐恩 《大減速：飛躍式成長的終結，後疫情時代的全球脈動及契機》 ※主題：《大減速：飛躍式成長的終結，後疫情時代的全球脈動及契機》/ 丹尼．道靈 / 聯經出版 ※來賓：聯經出版總編輯 涂豐恩 ◎節目介紹： 人類近期經歷了十分罕見的人口加速狀態，過去兩世紀間，我們的全球總數從10億增加到將近80億。同段期間裡人類還發現蒸汽動力，並發明了電力。我們過去都把成長當作生產力提升，以越來越高的速度生產越來越多東西。事實上，早在2020年新冠肺炎爆發的許久之前，人們就已經在討論全球經濟趨緩了。 《大減速》這本開創突破之書，從豐富的全球資料寶庫中汲取數據，進而揭露人類的進步從1970年代早期就已開始放慢。道靈利用說服力十足的視覺化手段來說明，不論是生育率、人均GDP成長，甚至是出現新社會運動的頻率，都已經在過去幾個世代中穩定下降。 最令人意外的或許是，科技進步的速度其實也正在急遽減慢。道靈非但沒有感嘆這樣的形勢變化，反而把這當作充滿希望的一刻、當作邁向穩定的行動來接納；而他也注意到，許多更早以前曾決定近代歷史的大幅躍進，都一併帶來了蔓延四處的戰火、分裂的社會，以及大規模的貧富不均。道靈因此樂觀看待當前的趨緩，而欣然接受之。這個趨緩不是因為流行病、不是因為戰爭、不是因為殖民，而是因為人們，尤其是女性，掌握了自己的身體自主。 道靈在這本說服力十足的新書中，證明減速的新紀元帶給我們穩定經濟、增進平等，並停止進一步汙染損害環境的機會。他主張，我們並未朝烏托邦邁進，但到最後我們很有可能會過著更好的生活。 ◎作者介紹：丹尼．道靈（Danny Dorling） 牛津大學哈爾福特麥金德講座地理學教授，研究領域遍及住宅、健康、就業、教育和貧窮。經常上電視和廣播電臺，並為《衛報》（Guardian）、《新政治家》（New Statesman）等報章雜誌撰寫評論。受聘為政府和國家統計機關顧問。2006年開始和一群研究夥伴展開重繪世界地圖的計畫，共同架設了人口統計地圖數位收藏網：worldmapper.org。出版了十餘本書，探討英國社會分配不均的相關議題，以及數百篇期刊論文。 ▶ 《飛碟早餐》FB粉絲團 https://www.facebook.com/ufobreakfast/ ▶ 飛碟聯播網FB粉絲團 https://www.facebook.com/ufonetwork921/ ▶ 網路線上收聽 http://www.uforadio.com.tw/stream/stream.html ▶ 飛碟APP，讓你收聽零距離 Android：https://reurl.cc/j78ZKm iOS：https://reurl.cc/ZOG3LA ▶ 飛碟Podcast SoundOn : https://bit.ly/30Ia8Ti Apple Podcasts : https://apple.co/3jFpP6x Spotify : https://spoti.fi/2CPzneD Google 播客：https://bit.ly/3gCTb3G KKBOX：https://reurl.cc/MZR0K4 #飛碟聯播網 #飛碟早餐 #唐湘龍 #唐湘龍時間

What is town planning for? The Royal Town Planning Institute champions the ‘power of planning in creating prosperous places and vibrant communities'. The Town & Country Planning Association ‘works to challenge, inspire and support people to create healthy, sustainable and resilient places that are fair for everyone'. As Raymond Unwin wrote in the foreword to the Housing, Town Planning, Etc, Act of 1909: "Town Planning has a prosaic sound, but the words stand for a movement which has perhaps a more direct bearing on the life and happiness of great masses of the people than any other single movement of our time”. Who is town planning for? How are we to reconcile these lofty ambitions with the fact that black and other minorities are at least twice as likely to be deprived of green space compared to a white person in the UK; with the fact the average amount of money accrued by owning property over the last decade is £150,000 for the average white family and £0 for the average black family; and with the fact that whilst 3% of White households live in overcrowded accommodation, that figure rises to 22% for Black households, 23% for Indian households and 35% for Pakistani and Bangladeshi households. Does planning remain a progressive force for social justice or has it become a regressive tool for the preservation of the status quo? Sam Stafford puts these questions to Danny Dorling (@dannydorling), Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography and Fellow of St Peter's College at Oxford University; Vicky Payne (@Victoria_Payne), planner and urbanist at URBED; and Ben Southwood (@bswud), Head of Housing, Transport & Urban Space at Policy Exchange. Some accompanying reading. Covid spread as overcrowding doubles among private renters in England. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/apr/24/covid-spread-as-overcrowding-doubles-among-private-renters-in-england 'Capital cities: How the planning system creates housing shortages and drives wealth inequality'.  https://www.centreforcities.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/2019-06-13-Capital-cities-how-the-planning-system-creates-housing-shortages-and-drives-wealth-inequality.pdf How London's property boom left Black Britons with nothing. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-05-18/uk-property-wealth-data-2021-show-big-gap-between-black-and-white-homeowners One in three adults in Britain 'do not have a safe or secure home'. https://www.bigissue.com/latest/one-in-three-adults-in-britain-do-not-have-a-safe-or-secure-home/#:~:text=One%20in%20three%20adults%20in%20Britain%20do%20not%20have%20a,housing%20crisis%20than%20white%20people. Resourcing Public Planning https://www.rtpi.org.uk/policy/2019/november/resourcing-public-planning/  A housing design audit for England. http://placealliance.org.uk/research/national-housing-audit/ The cost of the cuts: The impact on local government and poorer communities. https://www.jrf.org.uk/sites/default/files/jrf/migrated/files/Summary-Final.pdf All that is solid: How the great housing disaster defines our times and what we can do about it. http://www.dannydorling.org/books/allthatissolid/ Deciphering the fall and rise in the net capital share. https://www.brookings.edu/bpea-articles/deciphering-the-fall-and-rise-in-the-net-capital-share/ Some accompanying listening. Fixer Upper by Yard Act https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdJj3soqn-4

From minting coins to digital currencies, Anne McElvoy is joined by Harvard economist Kenneth Rogoff, British Museum coin curator Tom Hockenhull, historian of science Patricia Fara and political economist Ann Pettifor to explore the physical and virtual life of money as we approach the fiftieth anniversary of Decimal Day in the UK. The discussion ranges from the symbolism of images we find stamped on individual coins to the cashless society, and whether or not there is a magic money tree. February 15th 1971 was the date when the old British system of pounds, shilling and pence changed, following earlier unsuccessful attempts and the founding of a Decimal Association in 1841. But what is our relationship with money at the moment in a world of bitcoin, and paying by credit cards not loose change ? Patricia Fara's books include Life after Gravity: Isaac Newton's London Career; Pandora's Breeches - Women, Science and Power; Science: A Four Thousand Year History Tom Hockenhull is Curator of Modern Money in the Coins and Medals department at the British Museum which was built upon the various collections of Hans Sloane - amongst them were 20,000 coins. His books include Making Change: The decimalisation of Britain's currency and Symbols of Power : Ten Coins That Changed the World. Kenneth Rogoff is a Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Economics at Harvard University. From 2001-2003, he was Chief Economist and Director of Research at the International Monetary Fund. His books include The Curse of Cash; This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly co-authored with Carmen Reinhart Ann Pettifor is the author of books including The Green New Deal, and The Production of Money. https://www.annpettifor.com/ Producer: Eliane Glaser. You might be interested in the episode of Radio 3's Words and Music broadcasting on Sunday February 21st at 5.30pm which features a series of readings and music exploring the idea of money. In the Free Thinking archives: "new money" and the wealth gap depicted in Edith Wharton's 1920 novel The Age of Innocence https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000c4ln Does Growth Matter? Anne McElvoy talks with demographer Danny Dorling and economists Richard Davies and Petr Barton https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000gbtl Economics: Anne McElvoy talks to Juliet Michaelson, Liam Byrne, John Redwood and Luke Johnson https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03qbv3q Linda Yueh gives the Free Thinking Festival Lecture on Globalisation and restoring faith in the free market https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p062m7mj

We're delighted to welcome academic, author, social commentator, and human cartographer Danny Dorling to this episode (recorded in November 2020). The conversation roamed over many topics, from Biden and Covid, to Finland and Extinction Rebellion. It's Bloody Complicated podcast is created by Compass www.compassonline.org.uk which campaigns for a Good Society, now available on The Real Agenda Network. www.realagenda.org  

David Anderson, ABC Managing Director, congratulates Phillip on his thirty years as host of LNL. Glyn Davis considers poverty and the responsibilities of looking after those less fortunate. Danny Dorling scans the data and concludes that the great acceleration and rapid change that has marked the last two centuries is starting to slow down.

David Anderson, ABC Managing Director, congratulates Phillip on his thirty years as host of LNL. Glyn Davis considers poverty and the responsibilities of looking after those less fortunate. Danny Dorling scans the data and concludes that the great acceleration and rapid change that has marked the last two centuries is starting to slow down.

Danny Dorling argues that we are at the end of the great acceleration. While change is still all around us, the pace and speed has started to slow.

Britse politici staren zich blind op de brexit en hebben daardoor geen oog voor een dramatische ontwikkeling: stijgende sterftecijfers en een stagnerende levensverwachting – het gevolg van jarenlange neoliberale bezuinigingen op publieke voorzieningen. Een nieuwe koers is mogelijk, als de jongeren hun zin krijgen. Lees hier het artikel: https://decorrespondent.nl/11911/het-grote-nieuws-in-het-verenigd-koninkrijk-is-niet-de-brexit-maar-de-levensverwachting/18127035472898-9ba980ad ***Nieuw: de Correspondent-luisterapp! Vanaf nu kun je voor de beste en meest privacyvriendelijke luisterervaring terecht in de Correspondent-app. Ontdek 500+ shows en verhalen en ga in gesprek met je favoriete correspondenten. Download de app snel in de app-store! Geen lid? Maak ook onafhankelijke journalistiek mog

Britse politici staren zich blind op de brexit en hebben daardoor geen oog voor een dramatische ontwikkeling: stijgende sterftecijfers en een stagnerende levensverwachting – het gevolg van jarenlange neoliberale bezuinigingen op publieke voorzieningen. Een nieuwe koers is mogelijk, als de jongeren hun zin krijgen. Lees hier het artikel: https://decorrespondent.nl/11911/het-grote-nieuws-in-het-verenigd-koninkrijk-is-niet-de-brexit-maar-de-levensverwachting/18127035472898-9ba980ad ***Nieuw: de Correspondent-luisterapp! Vanaf nu kun je voor de beste en meest privacyvriendelijke luisterervaring terecht in de Correspondent-app. Ontdek 500+ shows en verhalen en ga in gesprek met je favoriete correspondenten. Download de app snel in de app-store! Geen lid? Maak ook onafhankelijke journalistiek mog

Danny Dorling, author of the book “Slowdown: The End of the Great Acceleration—and Why It’s Good for the Planet, the Economy, and Our Lives” and the Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography at the University of Oxford, talks with us about geography as a means to understand culture; how and why, despite our sped-up modern lives, the world has been in a global slowdown since the late 1960s; and the ways in which this slowdown illuminates women’s aptitude for leadership.

In this episode, Danny Dorling, social geographer and professor of geography at the University of Oxford talks to host Professor Anand Menon about the wealth and inequality gap in this country, how academics should communicate their findings to the wider world and the importance of using experts in a pandemic.

We're delighted to welcome academic, author, social commentator, and human cartographer Danny Dorling to the podcast this week.The conversation roamed over many topics, from Biden and Covid, to Finland and Extinction Rebellion.  We discussed in particular Danny's three latest books:  Rule Britannia (written with Sally Tomlinson) , Slowdown, and Finntopia (written with Annika Koljonen).Some key points from the discussion:Reflections on Biden's victory in the US election from the point of view of British and European progressives.  (It's more relief than happiness).Just as the aftermath of wars tend to see reductions in inequality, there's a chance that the Covid-19 pandemic could force some non progressive players into backing progressive policies.Why is geography such a brilliant subject, and why has it produced so many interesting progressive thinkers?We're in the middle of a global slowdown in terms of economic growth, population growth, and innovation.  Why is this a good thing?Finland is ranked as the happiest country in the world, and comes in the top three for many other global indicators.  Why is that?  (Clue: it has something to do with a progressive alliance)The automation revolution is already well underway in our workplaces.  What role will as Basic Income play in our future societies?Why has Covid stimulated the debate around inequality in a way that austerity could not?Why Labour must cooperate with other parties if they want to regain power in the next decade.And much more. "It's Bloody Complicated" is recorded every other Tuesday at 6pm BST. Become a Compass Member to join our live recordings and bring your questions to our guests: https://action.compassonline.org.uk/podcast Support the show (https://www.compassonline.org.uk/podcast/)

This week on the podcast we’re beyond excited to welcome the hilarious comedian and all-round lovely person, Josie Long.We hear about Josie’s unique journey into comedy, beginning aged just 14. And how she’s determined to extend the olive branch of opportunity to the next generation of young creatives. Needless to say, we talk about the current government's support (or lack thereof) for the creative industries and why she’s decided she’s had enough and is moving to Scotland.Plus, Paul and Josie have a fan-girl moment over our unofficial resident Geographer, Danny Dorling. While Katherine gives you her two cents about how to be a successful dictator.Links, resources and episode timestamps (for all you skippers out there) below.____ABOUT JOSIEOften described as a unique voice in comedy, Josie is one of the most respected comedians of her generation. She started stand-up at age 14 and went on to win the BBC New Comedy Award. She has continued to perform stand-up around the world and her eighth solo stand-up show, Something Better, had a sell-out two weeks at the Soho Theatre in London, followed by a two-week run at the Barrow Street Theatre New York. Josie has been nominated for the coveted Best Show award at the Edinburgh Fringe three times. Her latest show, Tender, is touring the U.K. in 2020. On TV and radio, Josie has appeared on The News Quiz, Just A Minute, Never Mind the Buzzcocks, Skins, 8 out of 10 Cats, and Drunk History. Josie has also worked extensively in factual areas including The Culture Show on BBC2 and as the presenter and writer of Radio 4’s Short Cuts. Josie wrote and starred in the film Super November, directed by Douglas King. The film was nominated for The Discovery Award in the 2018 BIFAs.Website: https://www.josielong.com/ Instagram: @josielongFacebook: @josie.i.longTwitter: @josielong____LINKS AND RESOURCESArts Emergency https://www.arts-emergency.org/ Book Shambles with Robin Ince and Josie long https://www.josielong.com/podcast/book-shambles/ Josie & Jonny Are Having a Baby (With You!) https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/stitcher/josie-jonny-are-having-a-baby-with-you Jonny & The Baptists https://www.jonnyandthebaptists.co.uk/ Josie at Greenbelt https://youtu.be/pJjzuJQwf_M Tender https://www.josielong.com/josies-shows/tender/ ____00:00 - Welcome to Somewhere To Believe In00:22 - Katherine and Paul catch up06:41 - Introducing Josie Long and her work08:23 - Josie joins the conversation08:23 - Josie on lockdown 11:34 - Josie on performing online14:49 - Josie on productivity15:46 - Josie on government arts funding18:03 - Josie on how she got into comedy20:10 - Josie on her inspirations21:36 - Josie on learning from others24:28 - Josie on Arts Emergency26:57 - Josie on the value of art29:12 - Josie on anger and despair 34:56 - Josie on politics36:43 - Josie on small venues vs stadiums40:45 - Josie on offence45:44 - Josie on religion46:25 - Josie on Greenbelt Festival50:03 - Josie on hopefulness 52:11 - How to support Josie55:43 - Katherine and Paul reflect on the conversation with Josie01:03:42 - How to get in touch with us01:04:23 - Thank you’s____A huge thanks to the Greenbelt Volunteer Talks Team for all their hard work on editing this episode. Our podcast music is ‘I Can Change’ by Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires.____https://www.greenbelt.org.uk/#SomewhereToBelieveIn See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this episode we talk with Danny Dorling, social geographer and Professor of Geography, about his views on many topics, much of which relates to large changes we see in society, and what things are slowing down. Through examining data, Danny aims to address arguments which are often very political. We have a real short-termism that prevents us from looking at the future, and from learning from the past. One area he has looked at is the increasing inequality in places like the UK, where 10 million households are facing destitution. We're living in a very interesting time. Large portions of the population have welcomed certain changes to their lives caused by the pandemic, like not commuting. It's hard to know if some of these changes will be adopted in some form for the long term, and how might we adapt them to work? Danny has looked at turning points in history and how to achieve social change. Some curious things Danny has seen through looking at data include that general elections don't have a huge effect on the number of children people have or attitudes toward race. In hindsight, he examines how countries change, how they've evolved over time to become more or less equitable. Due to the great inequality in many countries, he says that population growth is not the problem with climate change. You have the top 10% producing the majority of carbon emissions while the bottom 50% is really small in comparison. Aside from the extreme inequality, we've reached mass affluence in rich parts of the world, like the UK and United States. So now people have a relative level of comfort, no ice on the insides of your windows, we're not in a time before tractors were invented to work fields like our great grandparents. We're at a point with automation in factories, relatively done with technology for basic life, where the biggest innovation of the year is a phone you can bend. That, in a sense, is showing things slowing down. There's so much embedded carbon in the things we buy, a culture of buying too much, too much consumption. We buy more clothes than we will ever wear out, and also it's normal to buy things that have built in obsolescence. We also have an instinct to explore and travel that's going to be hard to combat as we learn to slow down. For the way forward, Danny has optimism that through looking at examples like Finland which ranks highly on many social success measures, we can understand what's working and apply it more broadly elsewhere. -Danny Dorling is a social geographer and Geography Professor at the University of Oxford in England. He is a prolific writer who has published with many colleagues, including more than a dozen books on issues related to social inequalities in Britain and several hundred journal papers. His most recent book released in 2020 is entitled Slowdown: The End of the Great Acceleration — and Why It's Good for the Planet, the Economy, and our Lives.  In 2006, Danny started working with a group of researchers on a project to remap the world (www.worldmapper.org). Prior to Oxford, from 1991 to 1993, Dorling was a Joseph Rowntree Foundation Fellow and from 1993 to 1996 he was British Academy Fellow at the University of Newcastle. From 1996 to 2000, he was on the faculty of the School of Geographical Sciences at the University of Bristol. From 2000 to 2003 he was Professor of Quantitative Human Geography at the University of Leeds. From 2003 to 2013 he was Professor of Human Geography and also in 2013 he was Professor for the Public Understanding of Social Science at the University of Sheffield. He is an Academician of the Academy of the Learned Societies in the Social Sciences and was Honorary President of the Society of Cartographers from 2007 to 2017.

Today we tell you about just some of the people you will be hearing in our new series of The Real Agenda, including: Jennifer Nadel, co founder of Compassion in Politics and former ITN Home Affairs editor, Dr Gail Bradbrook, co-founder of Extinction Rebellion, Gavin Esler, author and former BBC Newsnight presenter, Julian Richer, the entrepreneur and author, Robert Palmer from Tax Justice UK, Andrew Dixon, founder of Fairer Share, formerly with Goldman Sachs, Stephen Kinnock MP, now in Shadow Cabinet as well Oxford University professor Danny Dorling  and more… so do listen in. Each episode will be more news and updates on the urgent campaigns to reduce inequality and build a fairer society with themes covering Compassion, Homelessness, Tax reform, Minimum income standards, Economic Justice, Inequality, Climate Change, Democracy and more. Each week we will hear from campaigners, commentators, politicians, academics and journalists about fixing these fundamental problems and what we can do to end the unnecessary financial hardship suffered by millions every day because…..that's The Real Agenda  www.realagenda.org info@realagendaradio.org

Danny Dorling joined us to reflect on the emerging economic recession (or depression?!) and where we might be be able to find some hope... Weekly sociological reflections with Tissot and Chantelle during the COVID19 global pandemic

Danny Dorling joined us to reflect on the emerging economic recession (or depression?!) and where we might be be able to find some hope... Weekly sociological reflections with Tissot and Chantelle during the COVID19 global pandemic

For the final episode of the series we where delighted to be joined by Professor Danny Dorling, the Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography of the School of Geography and the Environment of the University of Oxford.Danny has written several books that focus on the issue of inequality, including All that is Solid that focuses on how housing impacts inequality. We discussed this plus much else including the impact of the pandemic, examples of successful housing policy from Finland as well as Massive Attack. It's a honest and thought provoking interview and obviously the views are that of Danny and not that of TfL. You can read All that is Solid at https://southwarknotes.files.wordpress.com/2019/03/danny-dorling-all-that-is-solid-the-great-housing-disaster.pdf (the section we discuss is on page 973) and Danny's new book is called “Finntopia” and will be out in September.

We're conditioned to think that economic development will get faster and faster. But it turns out that many key indicators from population growth to GDP expansion are slowing down. DANNY DORLING, social geographer and author of Slowdown: The End Of The Great Acceleration and Inequality And The 1%, talks to Ros Taylor about the coming Great Deceleration – why inequality is clearly the strongest indicator of mental wellbeing – why most of we hear about the Brexit-hungry “left behinds” is nonsense – and why our slow future was already taking shape before the COVID lockdown. “Important indicators like population are rising – but not as fast we think they are.” “Acceleration was so lauded in the past because we were improving living standards… but we've gone way past that. Simply consuming more won't make us happier.” “Half of the British population is on the edge of being financially insecure and in fact destitute in the near future.” “If your told since birth that you're the best in the world, then seeing your kids incapable of supporting or housing themselves is hard to accept.” “We're living under a misconception that this is an age of acceleration. Compared to our grandparents' time, it's an age of slowdown.”Presented by Ros Taylor. Produced by Andrew Harrison. Assistant producer Jacob Archbold. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Audio production by Alex Rees. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

First up this week, Staff Writer Jennifer Couzin-Frankel talks with host Sarah Crespi about a rare inflammatory response in children that has appeared in a number of COVID-19 hot spots. Next, Julian Dowdeswell, director of the Scott Polar Research Institute and professor of physical geography at the University of Cambridge, talks with producer Meagan Cantwell about tracing the retreat of Antarctica's glaciers by examining the ocean floor. Finally, Kiki Sanford interviews author Danny Dorling about his new book, Slowdown: The End of the Great Acceleration―and Why It's Good for the Planet, the Economy, and Our Lives. This week's episode was produced with help from Podigy. Listen to previous podcasts. About the Science Podcast Download a transcript (PDF).   [Image: Scott Ableman/Flickr; Music: Jeffrey Cook]   Authors: Sarah Crespi; Jennifer Couzin-Frankel; Kiki Sanford

-DANNY DORLING discusses benefits of societal slowdown (1:44:55 - 1:55:10)

This week, we have a returning guest to the podcast, Oxford professor of geography Danny Dorling, who spoke to me recently about his new book Slowdown. Danny has given his book one of those subtitles that clearly map out the terrain he intends to cover: The End of the Great Acceleration—and Why It's Good for the Planet, the Economy, and Our Lives.You may currently be feeling at best ambivalent about the idea of slowdown, with so many of us are enduring a Covid-19-enforced pause and desperate to know when we might get back up to normal speed.Danny's message is not that humanity collectively needs to slam on the brakes, but that slowdown in many aspects of modern life (though not quite all) is already happening, and we need to think about its consequences, and potential.In our day-to-day lives we may fail to see it, he suggests, but look at the patterns in the data and slowdown becomes visible. As he puts it in his opening pages, “An era is ending.”But he's not out to paint a picture of societal collapse or some dystopian regression to barbarism. In his first chapter, he writes:There are good seasons to come, but not fertile seasons in which our numbers, inventions, and aggregate wealth grow exponentially; in fact, our numbers will very soon stop growing at all.The past few generations have seen great progress as well as great suffering, including the worst of all wars in terms of fatalities, genocides, and the most despicable of all human behaviors —including the planning and construction required for the mass nuclear annihilation of our species.It may take us some time to accept that we now face a future of fewer discoveries, fewer new gizmos, and fewer “great men.” But is this such a bitter pill to swallow? We will also see fewer despots, less destruction, and less extreme poverty.And we will never again worship the “creative destruction” that twentieth-century economists so stupidly lauded at the height of the great acceleration.So for Dorling, slowdown is (potentially) a good thing: not only better than headlong acceleration, but our only hope of continuing to inhabit this planet. Not a guarantee of utopia, but a prospect of some sort of stable, sustainable life.Danny Dorling, at home and podcast-ready, April 2020But if slowdown sets the context, it doesn't determine the political choices that will have to be made. And so much of what we believe about our lives and our world is still about quickening change, the need to keep up or be left behind, the obligation to produce more or be found wanting. We're not imaginatively well-equipped to deal with the idea of slowdown. Canadian premier Justin Trudeau put it like this in 2018:Think about it: The pace of change has never been this fast, yet it will never be this slow again.That's the strongly ingrained perception that Danny is challenging in his book, and that's where we started our conversation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Saving Europe From Itself is a new series from the Another Europe team. Each episode we'll take one big idea, from one big thinker - and put it through its paces. In our inaugural show Oxford professor and author of numerous books, Danny Dorling, tears up the brief and argues that, with some of the most equal societies in the world, Europe could actually tell us a thing or two about how Britain could be saved from itself. 

In this week's programme I talk to Danny Dorling about inequality, its causes and consequences. Danny is professor of geography at the University of Oxford. In his latest book, Peak… Read More Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Anne McElvoy hosts Rod Liddle, associate editor of The Spectator; David Runciman, author of How Democracy Ends; Caroline MacFarland, the head of a think tank promoting the interests of ‘millennials' and geographer Danny Dorling in an assessment of the influence of people power. Democracy was the most successful political idea of the last century but can it survive the digital age? Recorded with an audience at Sage Gateshead. David Runciman is Professor of Politics at Cambridge University currently working on a project about the pervasiveness of conspiracy theories in the twenty-first century. David's books include Politics: Ideas in Profile, The Confidence Trap, and the forthcoming, How Democracy Ends.Caroline MacFarland is the founder and director of Common Vision (CoVi), an independent think tank with a mission to ‘inspire civic engagement and policy understanding amongst the millennial generation'. Previously, she was managing director at the think tank ResPublica, one of the founding team members of the foundation Power to Change, and a special advisor to the Big Lottery Fund. Rod Liddle is an associate editor of The Spectator and a columnist for The Sunday Times and The Sun. The author of Selfish Whining Monkeys: How we Ended Up Greedy, Narcissistic and Unhappy, Liddle is a former editor of BBC Radio 4's Today programme. Danny Dorling is Professor of Geography at Oxford University and the author of Population 10 Billion. His research focuses on housing, health, employment, education and poverty. His recent books include Do We Need Economic Inequality?, The Equality Effect and he co -wrote Why Demography Matters.Producer: Luke Mulhall

”An additional person died every seven minutes during the first 49 days of 2018 compared with what had been usual in the previous five years. Why? In this podcast, Danny Dorling, Halford Mackinder professor of geography at the university of Oxford, talks about the spike in mortality, what that means for overall life expectancy in the UK (spoiler, it's not great) and what he thinks could be fuelling the change. Read the full editorial http://www.bmj.com/content/360/bmj.k1090 For more information, this article by Dorling and Hiam has further analysis: https://theconversation.com/rapid-rise-in-mortality-in-england-and-wales-in-early-2018-an-investigation-is-needed-93311

The geographer Danny Dorling; Lionel Shriver, the author and patron of Population Matters; and Stephen Emmott, author of 10 Billion, join Matthew Sweet and an audience at Sage Gateshead to debate whether we should have fewer children. In 1968 a Stanford university professor, Dr Paul E. Ehrlich, published The Population Bomb. This call to arms became a global bestseller, influenced public policy and made its author a celebrity. It predicted mass starvation in the US and an England underwater by the year 2000. It also suggested adding ‘temporary sterilants' to the water supply as a way to stem the ensuing crisis. For decades it has come under fire for its alarmist tone and laughable foresight but with global population set to hit ten billion by 2050, will Ehrlich eventually be proved right? Danny Dorling is Professor of Geography at Oxford University and the author of Population 10 Billion. His research focuses on housing, health, employment, education and poverty. His recent books include Do We Need Economic Inequality? The Equality Effect, and he co-wrote Why Demography Matters.Lionel Shriver's novels include The Standing Chandelier, The Mandibles, and the award-winning We Need to Talk About Kevin. Lionel is a regular columnist at The Spectator and has written for numerous other publications including for The Wall Street Journal, New Statesman, and The Economist. She is a patron of Population Matters.Stephen Emmott is the author of Ten Billion, which he performed as a drama at the Royal Court Theatre. He is a Professor at Cambridge. His work develops new computational methods and ways of thinking about complex living systems. Producer: Craig Templeton Smith.

The number of people officially recorded as sleeping on the streets of England rose from 1768 in 2010 to 4751 in autumn 2017.1 Charities estimate the true figure to be more than double this. Danny Dorling, Halford Mackinder professor of geography at the University of Oxford joins us to explain what's fuelling that rise, why the true extent of the problem is far larger, and what steps need to be taken to tackle the epidemic. Read the editorial: http://www.bmj.com/content/360/bmj.k214

Can we afford the world's super-rich and what have they ever done for us? Hardtalk speaks to a leading British social thinker - professor Danny Dorling of Oxford University. He argues for a slow revolution against the top 1%, whom he claims are impoverishing the rest of us. If 99% of us are becoming more equal, does it really matter if a tiny minority are getting richer?

As Dirty Rotten Scoundrels becomes a musical, Samira Ahmed considers the scoundrel with historian of literature Nandini Das and novelist Nick Harkaway. Danny Dorling talks about the UK housing crisis. Plus we report on the winner of this year's Paul Foot Award for campaigning or investigative journalism.