Closing gaps

摘要

It wasn't supposed to work out like this. A year ago, the British government asked a team of worthies to produce a kind of inequality audit. The group, led by Trevor Phillips, chairman of the Commission for Racial Equality, was expected to report on the persistence of old forms of discrimination as well as sniffing out new ones. On March 20th, it released a preliminary report. The shocking finding: Britain is becoming fairer.