Dickens’s Britain is still with us
The two-child benefit cap would have punished Tiny Tim.
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The child in time
Writers reflect on photographs of their younger selves.
A cold childhood
My unheated home wasn’t a temporary discomfort. The chill got into my bones.
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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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Britain’s ghost children
School lifted me out of poverty. Today’s absence crisis denies that opportunity to thousands.
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