Ghost Signs
Poverty and the Pandemic
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Stu Hennigan's Ghost Signs: Poverty and the Pandemic is a first-hand diary of his work distributing food in Leeds during the COVID-19 lockdowns.
The book chronicles repeated encounters with extreme poverty, documenting people living without basic household goods and children shocked by food parcels.
Hennigan frames those scenes as symptoms of long-term austerity policy rather than temporary pandemic effects.
Through direct observation and personal reflection, he connects individual hardship to systemic failures in social policy and underfunded public services.
The result is a compassionate, unsettling portrait of how the pandemic exposed pre-existing social decay in a wealthy nation.
The book chronicles repeated encounters with extreme poverty, documenting people living without basic household goods and children shocked by food parcels.
Hennigan frames those scenes as symptoms of long-term austerity policy rather than temporary pandemic effects.
Through direct observation and personal reflection, he connects individual hardship to systemic failures in social policy and underfunded public services.
The result is a compassionate, unsettling portrait of how the pandemic exposed pre-existing social decay in a wealthy nation.
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