If you were to pick seven typical children to represent the UK today, who would they be? Danny Dorling answers this question by taking a characteristic which divides children today, the incomes of their families. What do you think the lives of the poorest, the middle, and the most affluent are? Should we tolerate these differences? How can we move towards a fairer future?
Danny Dorling works in the School of Geography and the Environment at the University of Oxford. In 2020 he published “Slowdown: The End of the Great Acceleration; in 2021, with Annika Koljonen: Finntopia: what we can learn from the world’s happiest country. He slowed down for a year in 2022, and his 2023 book was titled: ‘Shattered Nation. In 2024 he publishes two books “Seven Children” and “Peak Injustice”. Danny is a patron of the road crash charity RoadPeace, of Heeley City Farm in Sheffield, and of the educational campaign group Comprehensive Future. In his spare time, he makes sandcastles.
Vicky Pryce is the Chair of the Fellows at Radix Big Tent and a leading economist whose career includes being Director General for Economics at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS), Joint Head of the UK Government Economic Service and Chief Economist and Partner at KPMG. She is currently Chief Economic Adviser and board member at the Centre for Economics and Business Research. She is also Chair of the Economic Advisory Council for the British Chambers of Commerce and a visiting Professor at King’s College, London and Birmingham City University. In addition, she is co-founder of GoodCorporation, a company set up to advise on Corporate Social Responsibility.
