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My latest Spectator comment: Why is the free school meals debate so toxic?

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Oct 27, 2020
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Updated: Jun 10

“My childhood in 1980s West Yorkshire wasn’t a clichéd mash-up of a Hovis commercial and Kes. For most of my youth we had an indoor toilet, for instance, and though we lived in a cramped terraced house it wasn’t a back-to-back – which meant we could hang our washing in the back alley rather than out front. I did conform to stereotype in one sense, though: until the age of 14 I was on free school meals…”

 

 
 
 

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