Social Justice Takes A Backseat In UK

What keeps you awake at night? For me, these days, however persistent the thoughts spooling in my mind can be, I have to admit that they are not, really, frightening. This is in contrast to my younger days when, living in the US, anxieties about not having enough money, not being able to manage, knowing there was no safety net, could fill my nights with dread and stomach-churning anxiety. I have gone without medical treatment because I couldn’t afford it, shopped for groceries with a calculator checking every item against a tiny budget, and juggled the unpaid bills and the increasingly threatening demands for payment. It’s hard to describe the blessedness of financial security to those who have never known precarity, and hard also to keep the horror alive in one’s mind, so blissful is it to be out of that misery.