GAP BETWEEN RICH AND POOR...More Dickens context info...

An article fromThe Guardian reports upon the findings of the Credit Suisse Group:
https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2017/dec/27/worlds-richest-500-see-increased-their-wealth-by-1tn-this-year?CMP=twt_gu
https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2017/nov/14/worlds-richest-wealth-credit-suisse
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-14/credit-suisse-sees-reversal-of-fortunes-in-wealth-creation
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-40318284 

DICKENS WOULD BE THROWING CHAIRS AND BREAKING PENS!!! Students need this kind of information to offer a sense of context.

Y 13 22nd Dec 2017..Resources..

Channel Four News recently produced some powerful work linked to the HOMELESS issue in this country:
https://www.channel4.com/news/over-100000-children-will-wake-up-homeless-on-christmas-figures-show
Here are a series of short reports. YOU LOT NEED TO DIGEST THESE RESOURCES:
https://www.channel4.com/news/out-in-the-cold-homelessness-at-christmas-in-britain
Trussell Trust Food Bank statistics:
https://www.trusselltrust.org/news-and-blog/latest-stats/

Y13 Resources for 19th Dec 17..

Channel Four news segment..links to Dickens and Harrison:
https://www.channel4.com/news/in-work-but-on-the-streets
Last night this segment on 'HOMELESSNESS' appeared on Ch4 news:
https://www.channel4.com/news/john-bird-on-homelessness-austerity-has-knocked-feet-out-of-poorest
Andrew Marr interviews David Gauke:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5c4pH8VxWyg
The benefits sanction system in this country is being blamed for many of the current social problems being experienced by the UK's most vulnerable people.

FACT CHECK...How many people live on the streets?
https://www.channel4.com/news/factcheck/factcheck-how-many-people-live-on-the-streets

The writing of Dickens and Harrison, unfortunately, is STILL relevant!

ATTACKS on ANGELA RAYNOR'S ACCENT..15th Dec 17.

The idea that accent is somehow linked to intellect is a ridiculous notion that is still evident in our culture. Angela Rayner's experience illustrates this depressing fact:
https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/angela-rayner-defends-accent-vows-never-change/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-40554137
http://www.itv.com/news/granada/2017-07-10/labour-mp-says-shes-proud-of-her-accent-and-will-not-change/

What about the attitude to Tory MP Jacob Rees-Mogg. Here the Daily Mirror stereotype Mogg because of his accent:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/millionaire-tory-toff-jacob-rees-10980350
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/features/10125164/I-will-never-be-a-phoney-man-of-the-people.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crjoi8hCgjg
A clip from 'Posh and Posher' which was a BBC documentary:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQFUOAXlZR0

TONY HARRISON NEWSPAPER ARTICLES 8th Dec 17.

New European Nov 2017:
http://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/culture/tony-harrison-mr-angry-1-5273099
The Guardian March 2007:
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2007/mar/31/poetry.tonyharrison
The Guardian..V..Feb 2013:
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/feb/18/tony-harrisons-poem-v-working-class 
Why the fuss over V...BBC..Feb 2013:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21024372

TONY HARRISON related resources 8th Dec 2017

Harrison's poetry concerns itself with class and attacking the construction of a cultural hierarchy that  is reinforced by the institutions of society such as education, the law, and government.
Here are some resources to allow you to cosider this theme in a more informed manner:
Alan Milburn's letter to Theresa May:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/dec/02/alan-milburn-government-not-comitted-to-social-mobility
BBC article:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-42212270
Social mobility map of Britain:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-42112436
This is a link to last night's question time. On 39 minutes the panel discuss social class:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b09j14d6/question-time-07122017 
Please note the comments of Tory MP Bernard Jenkin. This man's father was an MP and privately educated barrister. Jenkin has also been privately educated and attended Cambridge. Jenkin believes that it is absurd to discuss class privilege...mmmmm...I wonder what Harrison would say?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/06/28/number-poor-students-dropping-university-highest-level-five/
The James Rowntree Foundation's report on Poverty 2017.
https://www.jrf.org.uk/report/uk-poverty-2017

YEAR 11 6th Dec 2017 Resources.

Francis Bacon's Screaming Popes...Note the similarity with the final section of Orwell's novella...

Pink Floyd...Another brick in the wall...note surrealist representation of education..This video uses surrealist imagery to present biting social criticism...can you link to Orwell's conclusion of AF?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YR5ApYxkU-U

The Zapp family:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BenqIVrgnfU

TONY HARRISON Resources..Y13 5th Dec 2017.

The Testimony of Patience Kershaw...Folk Song by the Unthanks:
http://www.nourishingobscurity.com/2010/11/the-testimony-of-patience-kershaw/

The BBC and Orgreave:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-27893072
You Tube footage from the BBC reporting of Orgreave:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3gYplJ0Upc

TONY HARRISON RESOURCES.....
First section of Channel 4's film. Follow links:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPutBM7zfv8&t=54s
Exploring V...great Radio 4 documentary:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oW49WJ0F2HM&t=926s

Dickens Resources:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9dB9BZWDBU&t=159s
Armando Iannucci documentary concerned with work of Dickens:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lZB6E0-yCk&t=182s