Tag: Debate

The Spirit Level Debate – Inequality is Contentious

Jul 28, 2010

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KB

in City Life, Current Affairs, Economics, News, Politics

One of the sources I quote a number of times in Other is The Spirit Level – Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett. The thrust of their thesis is very simple: by collating hundreds of studies over a long period of time they have concluded that the…
Is a Blog a Conversation? | Press Complaints | Racism

Mar 31, 2010

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KB

in Blogs | Social Networks | New Media, Politics

Interesting storm blown up over the Press Complaints Commission’s censure of a piece written by right-wing blogger Rod Liddle in The Spectator recently. In it he wrote that “overwhelming majority” of London’s violent crime was carried out by young, African-Caribbean men. In his evidence to the PCC he provided statistics that confirmed that certainly a…