The practical barriers can be addressed but how can we fix a collective consciousness that accepts it is virtually impossible for a working-class writer to be published?

The exploitation of resentment and selfishness has become central to politics in Britain today.

Our current model isn’t working; we need a profound change, and we need it quickly. It’s up to us all to act swiftly, to mobilise and realise the opportunities of a circular economy.

Other European countries have started sending kids back to school, but as we have seen, we are not like other countries.

So much for leaving no one behind. We most certainly are not “all in this together.

The hive maintained by local residents in a community-owned "secret garden allotment" in South London.

These elitists genuinely believe that they’re so important that they exist beyond the normal standards of behaviour that are expected of pretty much everyone else in society.

By Mark Thomas

By Clare Moseley, founder of Care4Calais