However elevated, we are all prisoners of the moment. We see the world as it is;
Given the general beliefs about inequality – it ain’t increasing nor is it at record levels, certainly not record highs – climate change – we’ve already dodged the bad scenarios – and so on we’d dp rather better if at least a few people did in fact see the world as it is.
Almost three times as many under 60s died in road crashes last year as those without health conditions killed by coronavirus, NHS data shows.
Just 388 people under the age of 60 with no underlying health conditions have died of coronavirus in England, NHS data has revealed.
The figures show that only 0.8 per cent of all deaths from coronavirus between April 2 and December 23 came from this group of the population.
In the same time 45,770 people had died with underlying health conditions, while 1,979 were viewed as healthy.
Policy didn’t particularly follow this information though, did it?
Many, many cities in the country do zoning in this way, but Atherton is what you could say is the most successful in using zoning to keep out anyone who is not wealthy or white.”
Hmm.
In a town of just over 7,100 residents, the population is 73% white.
California in toto is about 60% white. That thus seems well within normal statistical variation to me……
In 2018/19, a little over 1,000 social homes were delivered across 91 rural local authorities in England. On current building rates, it will take 154 years to clear the backlog in social housing.
Social homes, “affordable housing”, is offered below market price. There’s a long waiting list for below market price housing.
Gee, ya think?
How much did you earn last year?
About the same as our local GP, and rather less than our local MP.
A full time GP earns more than an MP’s straight wages.
Ultimately, British production companies, financiers and the US studios working here need to make a decision about what side of history they want to be on. They need to start reflecting the diversity of the UK, not just in front of the camera, but behind it. Every British production should have a quota in place for actors and crew. We need to put an infrastructure in place where people from the BAME community, who make up around 14% of the population, have access to jobs, have access to training and apprenticeship schemes and can further their careers.
OK, cool. That will mean discriminating against BAME applicants. Yes, against.
For workforces are not drawn from the national pool but from the local. Once you get away from leading name actors that is. And much of the UK’s TV and film production is done in areas – like London or nearby – where the BAME portion of the population is higher than that national average of 14%. So, a 14% target means discrimination against BAMEs in that local population that workforce is drawn from.
This also works the other way of course. The Tyne area is – as an example – one of the least BAME areas in the country. Blacks were something like 1 % or so at the last census from memory.
Looking at the national population doesn’t in fact tell us much useful about what should be the mix in a specific area.
KidsRights.org reckon that the UK is down there with Sudan, Saudi Arabia and Yemen. Actually, worse than those three.