MikeTC posted on 19 January 2011 08:05
The Labour MP was asked to assess how children from disadvantaged backgrounds could be given the best start in life. His report says success or failure in early childhood has "profound economic consequences" and calls for more private money to be channelled into early intervention schemes to help set children on the right path in life.
(BBC News Website, 19th January 2011)
Gentlemen, gentlemen, begin at the other end. Give us better homes when we are lying in our cradles; give us better food when we are working for our lives; and don't set jail, jail, jail before us everywhere we turn. And you do that before you've lost us all....
(Will Fern, a poor countryman in Dickens' The Chimes, 1844)
So, 167 years apart then.