I've just spent a couple of hours at the local foodbank, meeting people who, in some cases, would literally starve without it. On the other side of the recreation ground, 200 metres and an entire world away, is a row of £3m homes.
England in microcosm.

Once again I'm reminded of who holds society together. It's the workers putting in unpaid overtime every week, and the team of volunteers, working their arses off to meet people's desperate needs, while the government rips up public services and hands our money to its chums.

For Johnson and his cabinet, government is just a big game. They can play King of the World for a while, dispense public largesse to their mates and make grand generalisations about the poor. But for the people at the bottom, and those working with them, it's deadly serious.

This is more or less all you need to know about the politics of one of the richest nations on Earth.
(via @greycells)