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On the 25th of November 2020 the Chancellor of the Exchequer decided that, in the public sector, there would be no increase at all for many and a real-terms pay-cut for millions more in 2021.
Should you visit your family this Christmas? Three experts weigh in
For the third of society who live within a few miles of their parents, not seeing relatives at Christmas will make little sense if you see them most weeks anyway.
Letter: Social infrastructure is also vital to recovery plan
UK chancellor Rishi Sunak plans to set up a national infrastructure bank to “channel billions of pounds into capital projects”
The unprecedented rise of mortality across poorer parts of the UK
Danny Dorling discusses recent findings from a major study of mortality across UK countries and cities, and highlights unprecedented worsening mortality among the UK’s poorest communities:
Past pandemics, fear, dread and hope
In 1890, when he was still at school in Harrow, Winston Churchill wrote a poem
Afterword
As Eva Gómez-Jiménez and Michael Toolan explain in the Introduction to this book, high economic inequality has,
How many more will be dead by Christmas?
In the week after the schools went back in England and Wales, an extra 538 people died (77 a day).
Why are coronavirus rates rising in some areas of England and not others?
Growing alarm has been expressed over the rising numbers of people who are testing positive for COVID-19 in the UK.
Coronavirus: why aren’t death rates rising with case numbers?
It is a conundrum. For much of the past two months, many people have been convinced that mortality associated with COVID-19 would rise as the number of people testing positive with the disease increased. But this has not happened so far.
Slowing Down: Has this Been the Worst Pandemic in Britain in Living Memory?
If you are a little older than I am, then you may well remember worse pandemics than that of 2020.
COVID-19: The rise in destitution and inequality in the UK
On July 8th 2020 the Treasury released a document titled “Impact of COVID-19 on working household incomes: distributional analysis as of May 2020”.
Geography and the Shifting Ratios of Inequality – University, A levels and GCSEs in 2020
Why should the exam debacle of 2020 matter to Geographers?
Generational change: breaking the silence of the old
The COVID-19 crisis has coincided with worldwide Black Lives Matter protests
So what do we know now about Covid-19 in the UK?
It need not have arrived first in Europe in Italy. The disease could have arrived elsewhere on this continent first, and it could have arrived much earlier than it did.
The Geography of Slowdown: The End of The Great Acceleration – Keynote Address
Great economic inequalities will be hard to sustain during and following slowdown.