Glasgow versus Glasgow, a photographic film

In “Glasgow’s two nations” published in Le Monde diplomatique in September 2010, Julien Brygo wrote: “The World Health Organisation (WHO) published a report in 2008, revealing that the difference in life expectancy between a child born in the wealthier south or west of Glasgow, and one born in a poor area in the east, was 28 years.” Brygo’s own investigation was based on this shocking statistic. The WHO report provoked no more than a sigh and a few pious intentions.

Four years later things are even worse: austerity has brought even greater inequalities to Britain. Last March an Oxfam report, “A Tale of Two Britains” revealed that the five richest families in the UK are wealthier than the bottom 20 per cent of the entire population. Like the WHO report before it, it provoked another sigh and more pious intentions.