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Letters: Charles Saatchi's challenge to Taki, and the battle over Benefits Street

25 January 2014

9:00 AM

25 January 2014

9:00 AM

On Benefits Street

Sir: Fraser Nelson asserts that people in charities do not want to talk about what life is like on poverty (‘Britain’s dirty secret’, 18 January). To those of us who have experienced poverty or supported others stuck in it, there is no secret. We didn’t need a sensationalist pseudo-documentary to know that life with no money is grinding, miserable and soul-destroying.

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