November 23, 2024

One Kensington by Emma Dent Coad: the shocking truth about Britain’s most unequal borough

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A white British man born in the area around Harrods in 2013 can expect to live until the age of 92, Emma Dent Coad tells us in One Kensington. A Moroccan man born just minutes down the road in Wornington Green will likely make it to just 62.

Walk through the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and you cannot miss the money. It seeps out of every pore: the luxury hotels, the finely tailored suits, and the sports cars, parked on double yellows because their owners view parking fines as a cost of convenience. Yet Kensington is also the home of Grenfell Tower, and of council wards with some of the highest child poverty rates in London.

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