Poverty Safari: Understanding the Anger of Britain’s Underclass by Darren McGarvey – review

A moving plea for a better and fairer society

This passionate polemic on the causes of poverty by the Scottish rapper and social commentator known as Loki won this year’s Orwell prize. It is also a memoir of growing up in Pollok,Glasgow, where McGarvey was “well adjusted to the threat of violence”.

Throughout his life he has struggled with drug dependency as well as the emotional and psychological scars of his dysfunctional upbringing: “Poverty is a quicksand that consumes us despite our best efforts to escape its pull.”

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