'Children are deemed to be living in poverty if the income of their parents is less than 60 per cent of the average British household income after housing costs'.
This is not 'poverty' this is the shame of having being the only one in your class still using a Nokia.
In the UK we are ALL living at a incredibly high standard of living.
Life is no longer nasty, brutish and short for the greater part of our population.
Do stop whining your Grace.
Why not try a bit of New Testament revelation and celebration as we head through Advent, rather than emulating 'lamentable' Jeremiah, sent by God to point out to Judah that it's all likely to go tits up tomorrow?
It's no wonder the men of Anathoth wanted to top the miserable bugger?