Being a good host offsets the deprivation and loneliness of my youth.
Sleep deprivation impairs everything from your motor skills to your reaction time.
Sleep deprivation robs you of mental strength and impairs your ability to deal with stressful events.
My mother suffers mental health problems and has a learning deprivation.
I believe Ofsted measures poverty. It measures deprivation. It doesn't measure excellence.
The school in the Yorkshire mining village in which my father grew up in the 1920s and 1930s allowed only a few children to go to high school, and my father was not one of them. He spent much of his time as a young man repairing this deprivation, mostly at night school.
The absence of state capacity - that is, of the services and protections that people in rich countries take for granted - is one of the major causes of poverty and deprivation around the world.
I have always believed prison can be very, very good for you but not by the act of deprivation of liberty alone. There has to be more to life inside than that.
Unfortunately, I have witnessed millions of children suffering from the deprivation of basic rights such as the rights to education, the rights to health and the rights to play.
Take a walk around many of our cities and you will find areas of deprivation, high worklessness and educational failure only yards from areas of prosperity and employment.
