Ireturn after many weeks of absence due to an operation for a new hip, injured on my 79th birthday. I have not had the headspace to write. I have been reduced to physio and reading lots of Maigret detective novels, and trying to sleep through sleepless nights.

What should I write about? Probably I should try and stick to my main theme that I left unanswered before my operation: that is ‘ the inheritance of poverty ’. That we have a vast section of society who, because they inherited poverty from their parents, are themselves stuck in poverty .

And that most agencies and individuals working with the results of inherited poverty, with poor health, poor education and subsequent poor job opportunities come nowhere near tackling that inheritance.

And that government seems to spend its po

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