Britain’s ghost children
School lifted me out of poverty. Today’s absence crisis denies that opportunity to thousands.
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When David Tennant met Gordon Brown
“Drama is always political – it’s about human beings and how we interact with the world.”
The cost of austerity
A generation of children have been held back by political opportunism.
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Child poverty is a scar on our national conscience
A Labour government has taken millions of children out of poverty before. It can do so again.
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Dickens’s Britain is still with us
The two-child benefit cap would have punished Tiny Tim.
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A cold childhood
My unheated home wasn’t a temporary discomfort. The chill got into my bones.
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What’s the point of a Labour government that allows child poverty?
Keir Starmer says in private that lifting the two-child cap is his personal priority.
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Stained by shame: Britain’s hygiene poverty crisis
In the absence of state support, teachers are providing everything from clothing to soap.
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