(Pat Thane – looks like a well used air-raid shelter – DA)
The BBC news website carries this headline and goes on to discuss a load of balls produced by academics including Professor Pat Thane and another academic from our favourite university, Queen Mary College.
Hull ,Coventry and Portsmouth are cited as cities which were heavily bombed and today have high levels of social deprivation which have existed since before WW2. The attempted correlation between current urban deprivation and the number of bombs dropped is absolute bollocks. There is no mention of the most heavily bombed city ,London, presumably because it does not fit the warped model.
The cities subjected to the blitz were military and strategic targets. Coventry, Derby etc were major engineering centres which enjoyed high wages relative to the rest of the country; this continued in Coventry until the 1970s and still have exists in Derby.
Today , declining seaside towns such as Blackpool, Skegness, Hastings etc have high levels of deprivation ; I do not think that they were Luftwaffe targets.
It is so disappointing that alleged academics can produce such tosh. It is little wonder that students such duds if they have to listen such ‘experts’.
Nominated by: Guzziguy



