As a journalist, I’ve had my share of vicarious experience of the shadowy side of life: sign up for a courts round covering criminal cases and you soon realise how lucky you are.
Not that you need this exposure to be aware of how many people are doing it hard: just read the papers, watch the news, or see the people with their cardboard signs sitting despondently outside railway stations. But if I ever needed a reminder, spending time on the National Debt Helpline forcefully brought home that fact.
Listening to the calls that flood in to the helpline is overwhelm…
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