Canal Street is the beating heart of Manchester’s gay scene, and has been for decades. Years ago, in the late 1990s, some wag took a spray can and crossed out the C and S on the street sign to create the phrase ‘anal treet’ – get it? My guess is …
Read More »Ethnic headcounts and no ghettos: Denmark gets tough on immigrants, but will the rest of Europe dare to follow suit?
With the stroke of a pen, Denmark has rid itself of its problematic, crime-ridden ‘ghettos’, using the genius idea of simply scrapping the term altogether in tough new legislation. So now, by law, there will be no more ‘ghettos’ in Denmark – they’ll just call them something else. Revealing the …
Read More »UK government has decided to introduce Covid ghettos. What next, Covid camps?
The list was expanded after scientists at Oxford University developed an algorithm to assess people’s risk of severe disease or death based on their ethnicity, BMI, postcode, and their levels of deprivation. As a social scientist that has researched, lived, and known working-class communities I can look at this list …
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