Both tendencies have been challenged over the last year as we deal with the consequence of a pandemic that has killed more than 100,000 of our loved ones and wreaked devastation to the social, emotional, and educational lives of our children and young people - an impact that has been felt unevenly, and most evidently, amongst the poorest and those with the least cultural capital to draw upon to get them through the crisis.
The toll of deaths through Covid now outstrips the number of civilian deaths during World War 2 (that figure was nearly 70,000).
The war created the pressure for social change which led to the Beveridge report and the creation of the Welfare State as we know it.
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