Lockdowns ‘The Dynamite’ That Blew Open Social Divide: Report

COVID-19 lockdowns are “the dynamite” that blew open Britain’s social divide, according to a report published on Sunday. The Centre of Social Justice (CSJ) think tank, which published the report, said the UK is “in danger of sliding back into the ‘Two Nations’ of the Victorian era marked by a widening gulf between mainstream society and a depressed and poverty-stricken underclass.” The report, titled “Two Nations: The State of Poverty in the UK,” revisited the five “pathways” to poverty that the think tank had identified in a 2006 report, namely family breakdown, addiction, worklessness, serious personal debt, and educational failure, and found that the situation “got worse as a result of successive lockdowns.”...