The National Education Union general secretary speaks to Ben Chacko on growing calls to protect children from a toxic online culture
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Go to your local soup kitchen this winter, even if you don’t need to
It’s important to show solidarity with those using foodbanks – to show them that they are not outcasts, says ADRIAN HEALD
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Once derided by Farage as a ‘fraud,’ Jenrick has defected to Reform, bringing experience and political ruthlessness to the populist right — and raising the unsettling prospect of a Farage-led movement with a seasoned operative pulling the strings, says ANDREW MURRAY
I KNOW IT sounds absurd, but many people I speak to who need the help of foodbanks or soup kitchens are embarrassed to go there, often because they come from a generation where there is stigma attached.
There should be no stigma towards people in poverty — the stigma is with the government that relentlessly pushed austerity on us.
Nevertheless, we are still fighting an uphill struggle with people being in need, being in working poverty, living off a state pension (which is not a benefit, it is something they paid for through their tax) who consider it shameful.
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