It may help, therefore, to remain mindful of the fact that while poverty is relative, meaning it’s not as bad in the UK as it is in Bolivia, one area where this relativity does not so easily apply is in the risk it presents to children. He became increasingly frustrated when working for the BBC as a radio presenter travelling the country ‘like a proper journalist’.

When I look at the left, I see a worrying lack of self-awareness and a pathological belief in the legitimacy of our own resentment which is beginning to undermine the broader objective of social justice. He lauds those instances where real grassroots community action occurs within disadvantaged areas, but laments that these efforts are simultaneously hindered because they do not fit with the preconceived ideas and preferences of the powerbrokers, those individuals and organisations that provide funding and a public voice for such local community projects.

He throws down the gauntlet to the reader to take responsibility for the things we do have control of, especially those things which contribute to our health in our day to day lives. What I can say is that it would be a far greater betrayal of myself and my community to deny or conceal the fact that, despite my best efforts, I have changed. I thought this might have been a good place to mention voting systems, and the campaigns by the Electoral Reform Society and Make Votes Matter to ditch the archaic FPTP and to bring in fairer systems that reward collaborative working and let more of the small voices be heard, but there is only so much you can mention in a single book.

In the week following Brexit, I was operating in several communities across the city, all with high migrant populations.It is a personal memoir about deprivation, abuse, violence, addiction, family breakdown, neglect and social isolation. I feel like this was so obvious to the author that he didn’t articulate it quite as clearly as some cynics may require. Every day we turn on our televisions or pick up our newspapers and we make the exact same sort of leap I just made here: we decide that some other group is always being privileged above our own.