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1 These trends are discussed in detail, and sources of data, tabulations and formulae are given in Chapter 5 of Dorling (Citation2010a).
2 For data sources see: Dorling (Citation2010b).
3 See Wilkinson & Pickett (Citation2009). A revised edition of this was published in 2010, since then the book has been under concerted attack by the far-right all year, which helps illustrate just how powerful this book is. None of the criticisms made by any of the detractors to ‘The Spirit Level’ survive under even the most cursory of inspections of their complaints. What that shows us is that it is the idea that greater equality is good that a few people on the far right deeply – and without any rational basis – hate.
4 On the argument of how living under high levels of social inequality can corrupt our thinking and make us all more stupid – something of which New Labour may be an exemplar – see: Dorling (Citation2010c).
5 One of the most acerbic early critics was: Wood (Citation2010).
6 House of Commons Library, Economic Indicators, March 2010, RESEARCH PAPER 10/20 02 March 2010, http://www.parliament.uk/commons/lib/research/rp2010/rp10-020.pdf
7 On Labour's health record see Thomas et al. (Citation2010).
8 On Labour's education record see Dorling (Citation2010d).
9 On wider sources see Dufour (Citation2008), Kelsey (Citation1997), James (Citation2008), Irvin (Citation2008) and Lawson (Citation2009).
10 All the sources for these quotes are given in Dorling (Citation2010a, p 371).
11 With colleagues I was guilty of helping to propagate this myth by not making it clearer that other futures were possible, in particular by not looking further back in the past. See Cornford et al. (Citation1995, pp. 123–142).
