Channel 4’s Born Famous isn’t insightful – it’s cheap poverty porn | Darren McGarvey

We need a serious look at the scandal of poverty in the UK. Instead we get the children of the rich playing make-believe• Darren McGarvey won this year’s Orwell book prize for Poverty Safari“Where did you learn to speak so eloquently, Darren?” is a question I am asked with alarming frequency. It’s supposed to be a compliment. The question is posed so earnestly that I – rather than taking offence – have learned to contort myself to accommodate the expectations of the middle-class people who ask it.When they pose the query, they clearly have no idea of the subtext sizzling between the lines, which is: “I don’t expect a scruff like you to be capable of stringing a sentence together.” Then again, for many middle-class people in the UK, especially those working in the media, it appears that life is just one big TED talk. Related: Third of UK’s universal credit claimants hit by deductions from payments Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'

[ The Guardian | 2018-08-17 00:00:00 UTC ]

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