Shattered nation: inequality and the geography of a failing state | LSE Event

In this event to mark the launch of his new book Shattered Nation, geographer Danny Dorling will explain why we are growing further and further apart, exposing a new geography of inequality.

Speaker:
Professor Danny Dorling

Chair:
Professor Andrés Rodríguez-Pose

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[worldofameiso]

The fact that this lecture took place in the Sheikh Zayed Theatre in the Cheng Kin Ku Building tells you all you need to know about the state of Britain in the 21st century - awash with foreign funds and not able to finance our own future - decline is inevitable...

[geraldcapon]

Bravo well said. I left the UK when you were 14 in 1982 and have lived in France ever since. I have 5 kids and 5 grandkids all 5 kids have degrees, 3 Master’s degrees and one PhD - they have no student debt at all. My eldest granddaughter is in the second year of law at uni and wants to be a judge. Not bad for a chav eh! You are so right, I will buy your book.

[russmarkham]

So happy I left the UK in 2009. Looking back, the years 2003 to 2006 were good years in the UK, although it did not seem so at the time. I still follow UK news however and worry about some of my relatives who live in the failing state. One of the strange things about the UK is how bad the British are at learning from other countries. The BBC loves doing somewhat condescending documentaries on living conditions in poor countries. But studying countries that are doing better than the UK and trying to copy the best ideas is not something in British peoples' DNA. Even admitting that other countries might be doing better in some ways is tough for the Brits.

[TheUlrikkaul]

Danny Dorling as always very informative.

[XRPE]

Fantastic presentation, Danny! Top class delivery. Thank you very much. Amazon and you got a little richer today.

[rogerkirman]

Exposing the rot that this country has and is now experiencing, is the best thing anyone can do and Danny does it very well. We need him on prime time TV to overcome the right wing press strangle hold on what passes for our "Free Press"

[Dodge]

I left the UK for US in 2000. I have no student debt, live in a large house with a large garden with a 30 year fixed rate mortgage. I can deduct mortgage interest from my income taxes. I have access to much higher customer service that in the UK and a friendly community life I can't imagine in the UK. Health care can be expensive, but mine is excellent. I got a special series of treatments at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio that is, I'm told by the number of Canadians there getting the same treatment with me in Cleveland, entirely unavailable in all of Canada.

[grantbeerling]

End of video question on housing: Interesting fact: due to the 1915 rent freeze (backdated to 1914) and rent control post-1918, between 1920-1930, 1 million rented properties were purchased from the rentier landlords to the sitting tenants, as they sold them off due to prices dropping (and thus yields) with negative FOMO, i.e. 'fear of losing out'. All started from a nationwide rent freeze and a post-war fear of uprising if they returned to the pre-1915 'free market', thus the 1919 Social Housing Act and continued rent controls (as messy as they were). Note: by 1910, 90% of UK property was owned by the top 10%; by 1990, it was <9% PRS, around >60/30 split between owner-occupier and social housing (Ref; Piketty, John Doling, Timmins, Fraser and Lowe, just for starters).

[county]

I lived in Gulf for 30 yrs, returning 5 hrs ago . What I have found is a country on the brink of tearing itself apart . The decline in services, health education housing infrastructure are all in appalling condition. This I feel is directly associated to huge wave of immigration which has had a detrimental effect on society . Housing is in dreadful situation, the lack of accommodation for young people will end in tears . The crime factor is real and frightening.

[marianhunt]

We have a strange eugenics which is done by starving the poor to an early death. Things can't get any worse for the poor - yes they can. The poor can die a couple of decades earlier, their children can't learn because they're hungry so yes, things can always get worse for the poor.

[petergilkes]

Our single party state is not doing as well as another, well known single party state!

[kevinu.k.]

What a tremendous man, but what a slow and stilted talk!

[arthurdixon]

It’s not just politics. Businesses no longer have managers, they are now known as Leaders. I have been told that they are not there to manage but to lead. So no one manages and onward, onward, rode the 500.

[Lifelongloser]

What’s the solution then? Were there any provided ? Practical ones I mean.

[maxheadrom]

In the 2010 presidential election in Brazil, the candidate for the Socialist Party (PSOL) was the law scholar and Workers Party founder Plínio de Arruda Sampaio. When they were discussing housing, he mentioned a law mandating that an empty house in the UK be rented. Is the law still valid?

I recognized the lecturer becautse of his voice but he's changed somewhat - I guess the weight of his preocupations did that. A good person, Prof. Dorling is!!!!

[johncusson]

Corporations are not loyal to a state. Money goes where it grows best. Once Britain becomes destitute and unions have disappeared, money may come back to start a new cycle of exploitation. A share in a company should be also a share in the place where it operates so that the company will not leave -- a marriage separable by death only.

[JohnChampagne]

Can you turn up the volume on the first hour and 11 minutes? I was gonna go make a sandwich and can't sit with my ear next to the speaker.

[JohnChampagne]

Why would people talk so much about addressing inequality, at a school of economics, and say nothing about sharing natural wealth?

If we charge industries proportional to how much they extract of natural resources or emit pollution or encroach on wildlife, we will make a market system that offers more honest representations of costs.

If we *don't* account for externalities, doing harm will continue to bring profit. That promises a bleak future to youth. Continued degradation of the Earth's capacity to sustain a prosperous society.

Fees charged proportional to adverse impacts, with proceeds shared, would promote sustainability and end poverty. Yet economists remain silent, as if those goals are not important.

[georgeallcorn]

Look to Akhil Patel of Southbank Research and Investment . . . to his ' Land cycle, and the Kondratiev long cycle . . . 2008 crisis followed the end of the Land cycle of 2007, an 18 year cycle, next end to be 2025 . . . the previous Kondratiev end was near to 1972, the next expected about 2027, coinciding almost, hence a double whammy should be exp . . .

[JonathanBriggs-qu]

People keep voting for it. Like a game of resident evil zombies