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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
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MARY CONWAY applauds a brave and timely two hander that explores the difference between intimacy and abuse
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GUILLERMO THOMAS welcomes a biography of WA Domingo, a key figure in the anti-colonial struggle in the Caribbean
BRENT CUTLER is intrigued by the imperialist, supremacist and contradictory history of a word that is used all too easily
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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