Cold comfort
May 01, 2022
2 minutes
GRAHAM REID
The old British music hall song She Was Poor but She Was Honest came with a singalong chorus: “It’s the same the whole world over, it’s the poor what gets the blame. It’s the rich what gets the pleasure, isn’t it a blooming shame?”
More than a century on, that refrain is still true. Just consider media coverage
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