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The Glasgow Effect: examining the city's life expectancy gap – a photo essay5h ago ( February 26, 2021 at 2:00 AM ) Documentary photographer Kirsty Mackay examines the causes of the ‘Glasgow Effect’ in a highly personal project. She looks at Glasgow’s excess mortality in comparison to the UK average and shifts the focus from the individual to government policy.The Fish That Never Swam will be published as a book later this year.In Glasgow people’s lives are cut short: male life expectancy in Possil is 66, in Penilee three young people took their own lives within the space of one week this June, suicide in Gla...Tags: UK, Scotland, Society, UK News, Poverty, Culture, Art and design, Glasgow, Inequality, Westminster Continue, Kirsty Mackay, Possil, Penilee 26 people like this. Like Failure to enact public duty law 'has worsened England inequality in pandemic'February 23, 2021 at 7:01 PM Exclusive: government urged to activate part of Equality Act that would impose duty on public bodies to tackle inequalityCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe failure of successive governments to enact part of the Equality Act, which would have imposed a duty to address socio-economic disadvantage, has exacerbated inequalities in England during the coronavirus pandemic, a thinktank has claimed.The Runnymede Trust’s report, Facts Don’t Lie, says that the public sector du...Tags: Politics, England, Society, UK News, Poverty, Social exclusion, Local Government, Inequality, Equality Act 2010, School meals, Runnymede Trust, Coronavirus 22 people like this. Like 'A pandemic of abuses': human rights under attack during Covid, says UN headFebruary 22, 2021 at 2:00 AM Exclusive: Freedoms have been crushed and free speech impeded by governments around the world, says António GuterresThe world is facing a “pandemic of human rights abuses”, the UN secretary general António Guterres has said.Authoritarian regimes had imposed drastic curbs on rights and freedoms and had used the virus as a pretext to restrict free speech and stifle dissent. Continue reading...Tags: Health, Human Rights, Society, World news, Poverty, United Nations, Global development, World Health Organization, Un, World Bank, Inequality, Antonio Guterres, Coronavirus, COVID, António GuterresThe 19 people like this. Like Human rights in the time of Covid: 'a pandemic of abuses’, says UN headFebruary 22, 2021 at 2:00 AM Exclusive: The ‘biggest international crisis in generations’ has rolled back years of progress and been used as a pretext to crackdown on freedoms, says António GuterresThe world is facing a “pandemic of human rights abuses”, the UN secretary general António Guterres has said.Authoritarian regimes had imposed drastic curbs on rights and freedoms and had used the virus as a pretext to restrict free speech and stifle dissent. Continue reading...Tags: Health, Human Rights, Society, World news, Poverty, United Nations, Global development, World Health Organization, Un, World Bank, Inequality, Antonio Guterres, Coronavirus, António GuterresThe 29 people like this. Like One year of COVID-19: What will we learn?February 17, 2021 at 9:00 AM  Tags: Science, Environment, US, Society, Poverty, History, Earth, Cnn, Virus, Innovation, Inequality, Humanity, Coronavirus, COVID 99 people like this. Like Ethnicity and poverty are Covid risk factors, new Oxford modelling tool showsFebruary 16, 2021 at 11:35 AM Campaigners demand black, Asian and minority ethnic groups have higher priority for vaccinationCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageEthnicity and deprivation have for the first time been recognised as risk factors for severe Covid in new modelling, which will lead to nearly 2 million more people in England being advised to shield and 800,000 being fast-tracked for vaccines.The risk analysis tool, commissioned by the chief medical officer for England, Chris Whitty, from a t...Tags: Health, England, Race, Society, UK News, Oxford, Health policy, Vaccines and immunisation, Oxford University, Inequality, Coronavirus, Chris Whitty, COVID 8 people like this. Like Covid: almost 2m more people in England will be asked to shieldFebruary 16, 2021 at 8:59 AM New modelling identifies more higher-risk adults, of which 800,000 will be offered priority vaccinationCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageNearly 2 million more people in England will be asked to shield and 800,000 of those offered priority vaccination as a result of new modelling that has identified adults at higher risk from Covid-19 because of a combination of health factors and their circumstances, including ethnicity and low income.Until now the NHS identified those ...Tags: Health, England, Race, Society, UK News, NHS, Health policy, Vaccines and immunisation, University of Oxford, Inequality, Coronavirus 42 people like this. Like How Covid could be the 'long overdue' shake-up needed by the aid sectorFebruary 5, 2021 at 3:30 AM Analysis: as need outstrips funding, experts are making the case for overhauling ‘old-fashioned’ donor-recipient narrativesCoronavirus – latest updatesRead more in the series: The return of extreme povertyThis year one in every 33 people across the world will need humanitarian assistance. That is a rise of 40% from last year, according to the UN. More than half of the countries requiring aid to help deal with the coronavirus pandemic are already in protracted crises, coping with conflict or natu...Tags: Gender, Africa, Women, Society, World news, Poverty, Hunger, Infectious Diseases, Aid, Global development, Un, Humanitarian response, Women in politics, Inequality, African Union, Inequality and development 32 people like this. Like Rishi Sunak is paying Covid bills off the backs of the poor. It shames our country | Gordon BrownFebruary 3, 2021 at 1:30 AM A savage reversal of aid is happening at the very moment people need our help most. MPs must join together to stop itNothing shames our country more than the Rishi Sunak, the chancellor, paying the bills for Covid off the backs of the poor – at home and abroad.He has recently pushed off his plan to cut £20 a week from the already low universal credit paid to 6 million of Britain’s poorest families. Continue reading...Tags: Politics, Children, Conservatives, Society, UK News, Poverty, Britain, Aid, Global development, Boris Johnson, Vaccines and immunisation, Gordon Brown, Inequality, Global Health, Rishi Sunak 39 people like this. Like China's Sinopharm vaccine offered to elite few in UAE tourist dealFebruary 3, 2021 at 12:00 AM Knightsbridge Circle offer is first evidence of Covid-19 vaccine being used to attract touristsCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageChina’s Sinopharm vaccine is being offered to a handful of wealthy people paying for access to the United Arab Emirates’ Covid-19 vaccination programme as part of a partnership to “bring tourism into the area”, according to an exclusive London club that claims to be brokering the service.The vaccine is in wide usage in the UAE but is yet to re...Tags: Health, UK, London, China, Society, World news, Asia Pacific, Emirates, United Arab Emirates, World Health Organization, Vaccines and immunisation, Inequality, Uae, The super-rich, Coronavirus, Knightsbridge Circle 10 people like this. Like UK asylum seekers told claims at risk if they ‘misbehave’January 23, 2021 at 11:12 AM Call for Home Office to act after private contractors tell people their applications will be jeopardised for speaking out, going on hunger strikes or complaining about foodPeople held at temporary Home Office refugee camps are being threatened that their asylum claims will be harmed if they “misbehave”, according to testimony from site residents.A series of statements from asylum seekers inside the camps, anonymised to protect them from possible reprisals, allege they have been told by staff emp...Tags: Politics, UK, Human Rights, Law, UK News, World news, Immigration and asylum, Home Office, Refugees, Inequality, Priti Patel 3 people like this. Like The social determinants of health, explainedJanuary 6, 2021 at 5:39 PM  Tags: Health, Government, New York City, Society, Poverty, Policy, Chicago, Brooklyn, United States, Innovation, Manhattan, Health Care, OECD, Upper East Side, Inequality, Central Park 123 people like this. Like Top UK bosses are paid 115 times more than average worker, analysis findsJanuary 6, 2021 at 1:01 AM Vast gap in earnings described as ‘unfair’ and ‘repugnant’ by trade union leadersBosses of top British companies will have made more money by teatime on Wednesday than the average UK worker will earn in the entire year, according to an independent analysis of the vast gap in pay between chief executives and everyone else.The chief executives of FTSE 100 companies are paid a median average of £3.6m a year, which works out at 115 times the £31,461 collected by full-time UK workers on average, acco...Tags: Business, UK, Money, Society, UK News, Pay, Executive pay and bonuses, Work & careers, Family finances, Corporate Governance, Frances O'grady, Inequality, Ocado, Equal Pay 47 people like this. Like Richest 1% have almost a quarter of UK wealth, study claimsJanuary 2, 2021 at 7:02 PM Official figures have missed £800bn of private assets, says thinktank, amid calls for wealth tax to fund Covid recoveryAlmost a quarter of all household wealth in the UK is held by the richest 1% of the population, according to alarming new research that reveals a historic underestimation of inequality in the country.The study found that the top 1% had almost £800bn more wealth than suggested by official statistics, meaning that inequality has been far higher than previously thought. Researchers...Tags: Politics, UK, Money, Investments, Tax, Shares, Society, UK News, Property, Rich lists, Inequality, Rishi Sunak, Land Ownership, Coronavirus 30 people like this. Like Cramped housing has helped fuel spread of Covid in England – studyDecember 27, 2020 at 1:45 PM Overcrowding, which makes it harder to self-isolate, may have increased death rate in poorer areasOvercrowded housing has helped to spread Covid-19 in England and may have increased the number of deaths, according to research by the Health Foundation.People living in cramped conditions have been more exposed to the coronavirus and were less able to reduce their risk of infection because their homes were so small, the thinktank found. Overcrowding was a key reason why poorer people and those from...Tags: Health, England, Housing, Society, UK News, Inequality, Coronavirus, COVID, Health Foundation People 19 people like this. Like Cutting foreign aid will put girls at riskDecember 27, 2020 at 2:15 AM Now, mid-pandemic, would be the worst time to abandon our commitment to the world’s poorest countriesCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverage“The great strategic prize of the 21st century is the full economic, political and social empowerment of women,” said William Hague, when he was foreign secretary. “There are still large parts of the world who are undervaluing, under-utilising, under-developing half their population.” That was five years ago, and there is still a long wa...Tags: Politics, Education, Africa, Women, Conservatives, Society, World news, South Africa, Foreign Policy, Aid, Global development, Parliament, William Hague, Inequality, Coronavirus 44 people like this. Like Housing association pays tenant £31,000 over neighbours’ racismDecember 19, 2020 at 8:25 AM Court found L&Q had misled black woman who was harassed by family and had to flee her homeA leading housing association has been condemned by a court for failing to support a tenant made homeless after a racist campaign by neighbours.London & Quadrant (L&Q), which accommodates 250,000 people across London and the south-east, ignored a code of practice on protecting tenants from racial harassment and was guilty of defensiveness and insensitivity, according to a county court judgment issued last w...Tags: London, Law, Housing, Race, Communities, Society, UK News, Inequality, South East 25 people like this. Like The magnifying glass: how Covid revealed the truth about our worldDecember 11, 2020 at 10:30 AM The pandemic has illuminated deprivation, inequalities and political unrest, while reminding us of the power and beauty of nature and humanityRead more about how Covid-19 changed everything in a special supplement in Saturday’s GuardianShow your support for rigorous independent Guardian journalismWhat might be the enduring symbol of the coronavirus that turned our world upside down in 2020? Might it be those Thursday evenings of spring and summer when, at the stroke of 8pm, Britons overcame the ...Tags: Health, Politics, Society, World news, Infectious Diseases, Inequality, Coronavirus, COVID 40 people like this. Like Economic cost of Covid crisis prompts call for one-off UK wealth taxDecember 8, 2020 at 7:01 PM Tax experts and economists outline ‘fairest, most efficient’ way to repair public finances and quickly raise £260bnThe government has been urged to launch a one-off wealth tax on millionaire households to raise up to £260bn in response to the coronavirus pandemic, as the crisis damages Britain’s public finances and exacerbates inequality.The Wealth Tax Commission – a group of leading tax experts and economists brought together by the London School of Economics and Warwick University to examine t...Tags: Business, Politics, UK, Economics, Society, UK News, Tax and spending, Public finance, Budget Deficit, Britain, Economic policy, Income Inequality, Economic recovery, Mansion Tax, Inequality, Economic growth (GDP 46 people like this. Like Covid deepens south and north of England inequalities, study findsDecember 7, 2020 at 1:00 AM IPPR North report reveals few signs of government’s levelling up agenda becoming reality Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageCovid-19 has deepened inequalities between the north and south of England, with little sign of the government’s “levelling up” agenda becoming a reality, a thinktank has warned, in an urgent “wake-up call” to Boris Johnson.The north is experiencing levels of unemployment not seen since 1994, with areas put under the strictest tier 3 restrictions amo...Tags: England, Society, UK News, Unemployment, Uk Unemployment And Employment Statistics, Boris Johnson, Inequality, IPPR, IPPR North, Coronavirus 31 people like this. Like Pandemic could lead to profound shift in parenting roles, say expertsNovember 19, 2020 at 6:47 AM Men are spending more time with their children and businesses are seeing economic benefits of flexible workingCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe year 2020 has been transformative for how society sees fatherhood, and could produce the most profound shift in caring responsibilities since the second world war, according to researchers, business leaders and campaigners.Research has shown that while women bore the brunt of extra childcare during the initial coronavirus lo...Tags: Family, Women, Society, UK News, Working From Home, Men, Parents and parenting, Inequality, Coronavirus 36 people like this. Like Pandemic could lead to most profound shift in parenting roles since WWII, say expertsNovember 19, 2020 at 6:47 AM Men spending more time with their children and businesses seeing economic benefits of flexible workingThe year 2020 has been transformative for how society sees fatherhood, and could produce the most profound shift in caring responsibilities since the second world war, according to researchers, business leaders and campaigners.Research has shown that while women bore the brunt of extra childcare during the initial coronavirus lockdown and are being disproportionately impacted by the economic fal...Tags: Family, Women, Society, UK News, Working From Home, Men, Parents and parenting, Inequality, Coronavirus 10 people like this. Like Why the US must break the grip of huge monopoliesOctober 30, 2020 at 10:30 AM  Tags: Business, Politics, Law, Government, US, Markets, Economics, Society, Poverty, History, Policy, United States, Innovation, Inequality, Vanderbilt, Sitaraman 116 people like this. Like 'Biggest thing to happen to renters since WWII': why Matthew Desmond is optimistic about housingOctober 29, 2020 at 6:30 AM Desmond, author of Pulitzer prize winner Evicted, has found inspiration in how US housing activists have mobilized in response to the pandemic and economic crisisThe already acute eviction crisis in the US has been made worse by the Covid-19 pandemic and resulting economic crisis, which has put 30 to 40 million Americans at risk of eviction.But one of the top eviction experts in the US, Matthew Desmond, has found inspiration and optimism in how housing activists have mobilized in response to the...Tags: Housing, US, Society, US news, Inequality, Matthew Desmond, Coronavirus, US Matthew Desmond 13 people like this. Like Coronavirus crisis has intensified UK's wealth divide, data revealsOctober 21, 2020 at 7:01 PM 12m adults struggling to pay bills, with BAME people worst hit, official figures showCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageOfficial figures have laid bare the huge financial divide in the UK caused by the coronavirus crisis, with one in three households experiencing income cuts, and young adults and black, Asian and minority ethnic people worst hit.In a grim overview of the nation’s personal finances, the Financial Conduct Authority said 12 million adults were struggling to...Tags: Business, Politics, UK, Money, Savings, Race, Economics, Communities, Society, Household bills, Consumer affairs, Banks and building societies, Regulators, Poverty, Social exclusion, Borrowing & debt 43 people like this. Like Revealed: Sheikh Khalifa’s £5bn London property empireOctober 18, 2020 at 7:00 AM Documents reveal UAE president owns multibillion-pound property portfolio spanning London’s most expensive neighbourhoods The row of 1960s-built houses with untidy gardens on a quiet cul-de-sac near Richmond upon Thames appears to have little in common with Ecuador’s red-brick embassy in Knightsbridge, where Julian Assange spent seven years in hiding, just across the road from Harrods. Continue reading...Tags: London, Housing, House Prices, Society, UK News, World news, Middle East and North Africa, Property, United Arab Emirates, Julian Assange, Ecuador, Inequality, Uae, Richmond, Knightsbridge, Khalifa 34 people like this. Like Home Office hasn't learned from Windrush | LetterOctober 14, 2020 at 11:59 AM Campaigners and leaders of community and advocacy groups criticise Priti Patel for the lack of clear and concrete plans in response to the scandalWe are disappointed that the Home Office’s “comprehensive improvement plan” (Report, 30 September) does not contain anything in the way of concrete and detailed plans for implementing the recommendations of the Windrush lessons learned review. The document is long on regrets, but short on specifics of how and when appropriate changes will be made and h...Tags: Politics, Law, Race, Conservatives, Immigration and asylum, Migration, Home Office, Inequality, Priti Patel, Commonwealth immigration, Windrush scandal 25 people like this. Like Is the US actually a democracy?October 13, 2020 at 5:00 AM  Tags: Politics, Democracy, Government, US, America, Markets, Economics, Society, History, Policy, United States, Innovation, Inequality, Vanderbilt University Law School, Ganesh Sitaraman, Sitaraman 116 people like this. Like BAME Britons still lack protection from Covid, says doctors' chiefSeptember 20, 2020 at 10:00 AM More than a third of coronavirus intensive care patients are from ethnic minoritiesCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageA third of coronavirus patients in intensive care are from black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, prompting the head of the British Medical Association to warn that government inaction will be responsible for further disproportionate deaths.Chaand Nagpaul, the BMA Council chair, was the first public figure to call for an inquiry into whether and wh...Tags: Health, Politics, Wales, Race, Society, UK News, Hospitals, Britain, Infectious Diseases, NHS, Health policy, Inequality, British Medical Association, BAME, Coronavirus outbreak, COVID 43 people like this. Like Black Britons still lack protection from Covid, says doctors' chiefSeptember 20, 2020 at 10:00 AM More than a third of coronavirus intensive care patients are from ethnic minoritiesCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageA third of coronavirus patients in intensive care are from black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, prompting the head of the British Medical Association to warn that government inaction will be responsible for further disproportionate deaths.Chaand Nagpaul, the BMA Council chair, was the first public figure to call for an inquiry into whether and wh...Tags: Health, Politics, Wales, Race, Society, UK News, Hospitals, Britain, Infectious Diseases, NHS, Health policy, Inequality, British Medical Association, BAME, Coronavirus outbreak, COVID 4 people like this. Like |
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