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PAUL DONOVAN recommends a novel approach to presenting the case and figures of shameful levels of UK child poverty
STATING THE OBVIOUS: The Food Foundation protest in Westminster, last September, with their reimagining of a Tory political poster aiming of getting politicians to commit to extending access to Free School Meals, as 900,000 children living in poverty are not eligible for the scheme
RICHARD MURGATROYD is intrigued by a study that asks why the ability to diagnose outstrips the ability to cure
SYLVIA HIKINS recommends a sweeping survey of the world's biggest desert and the people who live there
MICHAL BONCZA highly recommends a revelatory exhibition of work by the doyen of indigenous Australians’ art, Emily Kam Kngwarray
The Bard commutes to work for the first time in 45 years
DAVID RENTON is puzzled by an ambitious attempt to look back on world culture from the future without engaging with or understanding it
Seven Children — inequality and Britain's next generation
by Danny Dorling
Hurst £14.99
THIS book takes a novel approach to examining how one in three children live in poverty in the sixth-richest country in the world. That country is the UK.
Building on his previous book, Shattered Nation, Dorling drills down to see how seven strata of British children are affected by the poverty and inequality so rampant here.
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