{"id":150093,"date":"2020-06-28T16:00:06","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T14:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/06\/28\/theres-another-pandemic-tearing-through-britain-hunger-john-harris\/"},"modified":"2020-06-28T16:00:06","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T14:00:06","slug":"theres-another-pandemic-tearing-through-britain-hunger-john-harris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=150093","title":{"rendered":"There&#039;s another pandemic tearing through Britain: hunger | John Harris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Boris Johnson instructs us to go out and spend, swathes of the population can barely afford to eatIn over three months of reporting about the Covid-19 outbreak and the social crisis it has sparked, one subject has come up in my conversations far more than most: food. Or rather, an increasing number of people\u2019s familiarity with the experience and prospect of hunger.As the recession that will surely explode by the autumn takes shape, food-bank providers report surges in demand of, in some places, around 300%. When the footballer Marcus Rashford took on and beat the government over the provision of free school meals over the summer holidays, he was shining a light on the same soaring want. At the heart of this is something a lot of people understood well before the outbreak: that, from our immigration rules to the punitive benefits system, people have been deprived of the most basic security by deliberate policy \u2013 something highlighted when the people in charge of food projects describe what they and those they help are now facing. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2020\/jun\/28\/pandemic-britain-hunger-boris-johnson\" target=\"_blank\">There&#039;s another pandemic tearing through Britain: hunger | John Harris<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Boris Johnson instructs us to go out and spend, swathes of the population can barely afford to eatIn over three months of reporting about the Covid-19 outbreak and the social crisis it has sparked, one subject has come up in my conversations far more than most: food. Or rather, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=150093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150093\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=150093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=150093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=150093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}