Posts by Emily Wallace

I was politicised by my experience of inequality in the education system, by the stark differences between my friends’ private schools and mine. I went to school in London in the 1980s, in middle of the battle between Ken Livingstone and Margaret Thatcher as she abolished, first the GLC, then the Inner London Education Authority. …

What is becoming clear is that when this health crisis is finally over, the trail of economic destruction and social deprivation it leaves behind will continue to rip through our communities and impact lives for many years to come. Just as every published Covid -19 death is a visible tragedy, there are hundreds of thousands…