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Today, trauma is everywhere, and it seems like everybody has it. Trauma shapes public debates on education, criminal justice and healthcare. It’s cited as a root cause of addiction, mental health issues, and relationship breakdowns. It permeates media, from music and television to films and books – my own included.

From poverty and policing, homelessness and overrun prisons to Grenfell and hostile environments, Britain has long been failing those who need our help the most. There is arguably one unifying theme that links all these afflictions: proximity. Proximity is how close we are to the action and how that affects how we assess, relate to and address whatever that action happens to be. Almost every job requires a level of experience and training with the notable exception of the most powerful people in the country—our political class.

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Walk and talk with Darren McGarvey. An Orwell prize winning author, social commentator and rapper/ poet speaking his mind on a range of subjects. Darren McGarvey is the Orwell Prize winning author of Poverty Safari: Understanding the Anger of Britain's Underclass and has drawn several comparisons with George Orwell himself from public figures like Andrew Adonis and Paul Mason. Originally published by Luath Press, Poverty Safari secured a deal with Pan Macmillan imprint Picador to republish the book in August 2018. The book is an Amazon and Sunday Times Best-Seller and thanks to strong word of...