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30 Mar 2013

I will be participating in a debate on “the problems with inequality” on 22 May at the Leeds Salon. Danny Dorling, who I recently debated in Manchester, will also be on the panel with another speaker to be confirmed.

Tags: inequality, speeches

Video of debate with Danny Dorling

In: Daniel In The News

6 Mar 2013

A video of my Manchester Salon debate on inequality with Danny Dorling is available to watch here.

Tags: inequality, media appearances, speeches

Inequality debate in Manchester

In: Daniel In The News

8 Feb 2013

I will be debating Danny Dorling, one of Britain’s leading experts on inequality, at the Manchester Salon on the evening of Tuesday 26 February. Details can be found here.

Tags: inequality, speeches

Why isn’t poverty history – video

In: Daniel In The News

22 Dec 2012

This is the video of my debate on “Why isn’t poverty history yet” at the Battle of Ideas festival in London in October (Jonathan Portes, pictured). Thanks to Worldwrite for producing the video and in particular for cutting out the background noise of birds tweeting in the Barbican Centre auditorium.

Tags: inequality, speeches, television, Worldwrite

Going beyond A and B

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25 Oct 2012

The following was the basis for my speech on austerity at last weekend’s Battle of Ideas conference. It was also submitted as an opinion piece to CityAM but not published. A debate on how to revive the British economy is urgently needed. That might seem an odd thing to say given that there appear to [...]

Tags: Britain, economics, speeches

Speaking at two sessions at Battle

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1 Sep 2012

This year I will be speaking at two sessions at the Battle of Ideas festival in London on the weekend of 20-21 October. The first will look at the discussion of austerity with Dan Atkinson of the Mail on Sunday, David Smith of the Sunday Times and Philippe Legrain also on the panel. Immediately after [...]

Tags: Britain, consumption, economics, inequality, speeches

Frontline Club blog post

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13 Jun 2012

This is the Frontline Club’s blog post on yesterday’s event. In my view it one-sidedly downplays criticism of the documentary.

Tags: speeches, television

Mainstream posing as renegade

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13 Jun 2012

This is my account of yesterday’s debate on the Four Horsemen documentary. An earlier version appeared as a blog post on the Fundweb web site. Last night I participated in a debate that reminded me of one of the main misconceptions in contemporary economics: that free market thinking is influential. The occasion was a debate [...]