Alison O'Connor: Each decade brings stark choices that impact our nation’s children

We still live with the scars of that time and those traumatic memories [of the horrendous austerity] will live on, writes Alison O'Connor.

Alison O'Connor: Each decade brings stark choices that impact our nation’s children
Thu, 19 Dec, 2019 - 20:00
Alison O'Connor

We still live with the scars of that time and those traumatic memories [of the horrendous austerity] will live on, writes Alison O'Connor.

This week 10 years ago I brought a new life into the world.

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