Hunger is part of the British Christmas

Just before Christmas, David Taylor-Robinson and colleagues at the University of Liverpool wrote to the British Medical Journal, pointing out that hospital admissions directly related to malnutrition have doubled since 2008-09. They said the situation has ‘all the signs of a public health emergency.’ They are concerned about the government’s holding back of research into the effects of the rising cost of living and increasingly austere welfare reforms. Maybe we need a new Dickens of our time.