Last year, two in every five (39 per cent) violent incidents in England and Wales were alcohol-related. In fact, the proportion hasn’t dipped below this at any point in the last ten years.
Our Director, Richard Garside, was interviewed on Talk Radio yesterday on far-right violence and the underlying causes of violence in society.
On underlying causes of violence, Richard said:
We know that societies that are more unequal in relation to power and money, are generally speaking more violent.
Watch the whole clip...
Sir Michael Marmot has highlighted the impact of social and health inequalities in causing 200,000 premature deaths in the UK, reports The Guardian. He said;
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Sir Michael Marmot of University College London, writing in The Lancet, has made the case for putting tackling health inequalities at the top of the political agenda.
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Our Director Richard Garside was quoted on the Aljazeera website on Tuesday talking about what a militarised police force says about society.
Richard explained...
A report published by Children’s Rights Alliance for England mapping inequalities in outcomes for children in London indicates that children in Lambeth are 30 times...
Research published in the journal Paediatrics has linked inequality to child maltreatment. Data from US counties have shown a relationship even after adjusting for...
Sir Michael Marmot, who is known for his work on social health, claims that the rest of Europe takes better care of its families and believes the deteriorating public health in Britain is caused by huge numbers of adults not in education, training or employment.
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Ken Clarke’s recent interventions have put the question of Britain’s high prison population back on the agenda.
My last post highlighted the selective use of data by the Conservative party. In their recent report – Labour’s Two Nations – the...
In a previous post I highlighted the selective reworking of a graph on inequality by the government. Now it’s the turn of the Conservative party to...
What to make of news that the UK might finally be emerging from recession. According to Office for National Statistics...
