Voices: Working-class men like Steve Wright don’t go to the doctor – and that’s exactly the problem...

There’s a strange sort of nihilism in working-class communities that I don’t think gets talked about enough.

I’m not talking about the obvious sort of nihilism that comes with having limited education and career opportunities, or feeling like you’ve been abandoned in the middle of a never-ending economic downturn. The sort that leads to high crime rates and mental health crises and halts any sort of social mobility before it can get off the ground. That exists too, but it sort of goes without saying.

I grew up in an extremely deprived