Review of Poverty Safari by Darren McGarvey

In the first of my two part review of this best-selling UK book I praise Darren McGarvey's independence of mind. I admire the way he uses his first hand experience of poverty and abuse to question the left's exclusive interest in structural economic factors. I think McGarvey is right to argue that economic change is important but that it is unlikely to happen soon. Meanwhile  we must acknowledge that what people do as individuals has a major impact on their lives and their families.