Postcode Lottery: Where You’re Born Shouldn’t Decide the Support You Get
Great Britain likes to sell itself an unrealistic dream of universal opportunity, though the reality is strictly local. Coined the ‘postcode lottery’, it ensures a child’s fate is decided via a map rather than a mind, entrenching a geographical inequality that defies our meritocratic myths. The youth services infrastructure we once viewed as a social bedrock has been systematically dismantled, evaporating under a 73% real-terms funding cut since 2010. We call it fiscal responsibility, but in...
