Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of figures viii
4. List of tables xi
5. Acknowledgements xii
6. Section 1 Inequality
7. CHAPTER 1.1 Crisis, austerity and the future 3
8. Section 2 Politics
9. CHAPTER 2.1 Introduction 21
10. CHAPTER 2.2 Fairness and the changing fortunes of people in Britain 28
11. CHAPTER 2.3 Mapping the August 2011 riots 32
12. CHAPTER 2.4 The machine brings class and change 36
13. CHAPTER 2.5 Thinking about class 40
14. CHAPTER 2.6 Should Parliament move out of London? 44
15. CHAPTER 2.7 The Tories will reduce UK public spending to Estonian levels 49
16. CHAPTER 2.8 A better politics – a more enlightened economics 55
17. CHAPTER 2.9 Brexit: the decision of a divided country 69
18. CHAPTER 2.10 France shows what has gone wrong in the UK and US 73
19. CHAPTER 2.11 UK election cartography 76
20. CHAPTER 2.12 The election result in three graphs 79
21. Section 3 Housing
22. CHAPTER 3.1 Introduction 85
23. CHAPTER 3.2 Housing has become the defining economic issue of our times 91
24. CHAPTER 3.3 Modern realities increasing the discomfort of the comfortably off 96
25. CHAPTER 3.4 Growing wealth inequality in the UK is a ticking time bomb 99
26. CHAPTER 3.5 Only one lucky generation ever struck housing gold 102
27. CHAPTER 3.6 The London bubble 107
28. CHAPTER 3.7 Policy, politics, health, and housing in the UK 110
29. CHAPTER 3.8 London and the English desert 117
30. CHAPTER 3.9 Living in extraordinary times 133
31. CHAPTER 3.10 This government can’t be trusted on housing 136
32. CHAPTER 3.11 Turning the tide on inequality 140
33. CHAPTER 3.12 Homelessness and risk of homelessness greatly harm public health 148
34. Section 4 Demography
35. CHAPTER 4.1 Introduction 153
36. CHAPTER 4.2 Some good news – World Population Day 159
37. CHAPTER 4.3 The turning points of history 162
38. CHAPTER 4.4 The dimensions that shape London – mapped 177
39. CHAPTER 4.5 The hollowing out of London: poverty patterns are changing 182
40. CHAPTER 4.6 Income inequality in the UK: European comparisons 194
41. CHAPTER 4.7 Visualizing urban and regional worlds 199
42. CHAPTER 4.8 A human cartographic perspective 204
43. Section 5 Education
44. CHAPTER 5.1 Introduction 207
45. CHAPTER 5.2 English education policy is based on a nasty little theory 214
46. CHAPTER 5.3 Are today’s second-year students the unluckiest cohort ever? 220
47. CHAPTER 5.4 Is the British education system designed to polarise people? 223
48. CHAPTER 5.5 Tuition fees: a bonanza for the 1% 230
49. CHAPTER 5.6 England’s schools make us the extremists of Europe 236
50. CHAPTER 5.7 How well can we predict educational outcomes? 242
51. CHAPTER 5.8 Why steer so many to university at 18, before they are ready? 246
52. CHAPTER 5.9 Humans most atrocious under the weight of great inequalities 249
53. CHAPTER 5.10 Why student loans are a confidence trick for the 85% 253
54. CHAPTER 5.11 How children’s books reveal inequality 259
55. CHAPTER 5.12 Say ‘Auf Wiedersehen’ to England’s embarrassing tuition fees 263
56. Section 6 Health
57. CHAPTER 6.1 Introduction 267
58. CHAPTER 6.2 Lower speeds save lives and revive communities 274
59. CHAPTER 6.3 Why are the old dying before their time? 277
60. CHAPTER 6.4 All the presidents’ children 291
61. CHAPTER 6.5 The mother of underlying causes 296
62. CHAPTER 6.6 Black Lives Matter 299
63. CHAPTER 6.7 The impact of the housing crisis on health 302
64. CHAPTER 6.8 Policymakers should not act like scientists 305
65. CHAPTER 6.9 Why has mortality in England and Wales been increasing? 308
66. CHAPTER 6.10 Have mortality improvements stalled in England? 314
67. CHAPTER 6.11 Changes in the number of delayed discharges of NHS patients 319
68. CHAPTER 6.12 Short cuts 322
69. Section 7 The future
70. CHAPTER 7.1 Introduction 327
71. CHAPTER 7.2 How might we house ourselves? 334
72. CHAPTER 7.3 How might we better school ourselves? 340
73. CHAPTER 7.4 Work: a view from one hundred years hence 346
74. CHAPTER 7.5 Eat the Rich: wise up and rise up 351
75. CHAPTER 7.6 Europe one hundred years hence 356
76. CHAPTER 7.7 Democracy one hundred years hences 361
77. CHAPTER 7.8 Policing one hundred years hence 366
78. CHAPTER 7.9 Terrorism 100 years hence 371
79. CHAPTER 7.10 A view from the future: the job-centre 378
80. CHAPTER 7.11 Why Corbyn’s moral clarity could propel him to Number 10 383
81. Source credits 393
82. Index 395