The Evening Standard is running a series on poverty, and how shocking it is that so many children are still living under the poverty line.
There were stories yesterday about a teen mum who dreams of visiting Canary Wharf, just a couple of miles from where she lives (not hard to jump a bus), and contrasting her life with the riches found there. Also a teen boy who is studying dance and lives in Angel but is utterly oblivious to the arts and culture there for no good reason except the implication that they "aren't meant for people like him."
Tonight there was the tale of a woman with 11 children (by 5 fathers) and how somehow she has just kept having babies and now they have to live on £7 per day per child (though that's counting several children old enough to be on their own).
It all just annoyed me and I really didn't feel much sympathy at all if that's the best the ES can do to highlight the problem.