{"id":8512,"date":"2012-04-30T15:18:04","date_gmt":"2012-04-30T14:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=8512"},"modified":"2012-04-30T15:19:03","modified_gmt":"2012-04-30T14:19:03","slug":"and-the-rich-get-even-richer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=8512","title":{"rendered":"And the rich get even richer &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>.. . while the poor get even poorer &#8211; and the Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne insists that we&#8217;re all in this together.<\/p>\n<p>As explained <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spearswms.com\/spears-world\/wire\/32095\/sunday-times-rich-list-breaks-wealth-record.thtml\">here<\/a>, the lastest Sunday Times Rich List shows that the wealthiest 1,000 people in the UK are now worth \u00a3414 billion which is a 4.7% increase on last year.<\/p>\n<p>Does it matter if our society experiences ever wider inequalities in income and wealth? &#8220;The Spirit Level&#8221; argues that all of us suffer the consequences. See my review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/currentaffairs.html#TSL\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>.. . while the poor get even poorer &#8211; and the Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne insists that we&#8217;re all in this together. As explained here, the lastest Sunday Times Rich List shows that the wealthiest 1,000 people in the UK are now worth \u00a3414 billion which is a 4.7% increase on last year. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-british-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8512"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8517,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8512\/revisions\/8517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}