Image: Homeless person sleeping outside Fortnum & Mason, London, in freezing temperatures, 2018. Credit: Velar Grant/Zuma Wire/PA Images, all rights reserved.
‘In the bleak mid-winter’ - never has the opening line in the much-loved Christmas carol seemed more appropriate than now as 2019 gets underway.
Bleak for the poverty, inequality, hopelessness and despair affecting too many people in this, one of the richest countries in the developed world. Why is this the case – and what’s to be done about it – are two questions that politicians need to answer.
