Photo essay: The children of Thatcher’s Britain
Craig Easton’s images of one family capture the reality of state neglect.
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Child Poverty
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Child Poverty
When David Tennant met Gordon Brown
“Drama is always political – it’s about human beings and how we interact with the world.”
Britain’s ghost children
School lifted me out of poverty. Today’s absence crisis denies that opportunity to thousands.
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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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The children denied a childhood
Families in poverty don’t just need basics – they need everyday joys.
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Britain is failing children in care
I had to leave my foster home when I turned 18. I looked for support and found none.
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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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