Danny Dorling
Person on 4 sites
British social geographer and Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography at the University of Oxford, who writes on inequality, housing, health and public policy.
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6 facts on wiqqi (opens wiqqi.app)
Who people, organisations and podcasts are, and how they connect, with sources.
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3 channels on ppll (opens ppll.app)
Where public figures publish, and what they are on record saying.
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8 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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Rail privatisation in Britain, like many 1980s privatisations, failed. (opens korrents.com)
“When it comes to rail, as with so many of the other privatisations of the 1980s, the experiment failed.”
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People in Britain would get better services by paying the government more and private providers less. (opens korrents.com)
“If people pay the government more, and private providers less, they can receive better services.”
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Private providers of utilities are too tempted to keep raising prices and cutting costs. (opens korrents.com)
“The temptation for private providers to try to raise prices and lower their costs continuously is just too great, especially where there is currently the least regulation.”
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Rail privatisation in Britain, like many 1980s privatisations, failed. (opens korrents.com)
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5 recommendations on rcmnd (opens rcmnd.app)
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On Roads (opens rcmnd.app)
“You’ve got to know Britain, otherwise it’s a bit meaningless, but if I had to recommend just one of these books, I’d say please read Joe Moran’s On Roads.”
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The Northern Clemency (opens rcmnd.app)
“This is the affluent side of Sheffield, so in The Northern Clemency it’s the part of Sheffield where the man who is keeping the power station running during the miners’ strike lives.”
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The Selfish Capitalist (opens rcmnd.app)
“The book which I have chosen, The Selfish Capitalist, is a compilation of all the academic evidence behind it; Affluenza itself is mostly a series of interviews done with people all around the world.”
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On Roads (opens rcmnd.app)