“We don’t live alone. We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other. And I tell you that the time will soon come when if men will not learn that lesson, then they will be taught it in fire and blood and anguish.” - An Inspector Calls
Angela Moohan is the chief executive of The Larder, a charity fighting poverty and hunger with dignity. Angela has also issued a stark warning to the United Kingdom in the Morning Star newspaper.
THIS winter more and more of our fellow citizens will go hungry. In Scotland and across the UK people who have never suffered from food insecurity before will, for the first time, not have enough food to feed themselves and their families.
The Larder hosted a National Emergency Food Summit. We issued an open invitation to statutory and non-statutory organisations, voluntary and community groups, politicians, trade unions, academics and individuals, from across Scotland, to come together in an effort to find a collective way forward to put food into people’s bellies this winter.
While the recent focus has understandably been on soaring energy bills, hunger and food insecurity has fallen off the political and media agenda. There is a moral imperative to act, we cannot allow our fellow citizens to go without the most basic necessity for life: food.
An Inspector Calls is a play written by English dramatist J. B. Priestley, first performed in the Soviet Union in 1945 and at the New Theatre in London the following year. It is one of Priestley’s best-known works for the stage and is considered to be one of the classics of mid-20th century English theatre.
One of J B Priestley’s best-known works, An Inspector Calls was written in the 1940s, though the action takes place in a single night in 1912. It features the Birlings, an upper-middle-class family living a comfortable life in the north of England, where Arthur Birling is a successful factory owner and local politician, and his wife Sybil oversees the running of the home and sits on charity committees.
As Helena Gomm wrote in the Winchester Today; On the night in question, the Birlings have every reason to feel smug. Their daughter Sheila has just become engaged to Gerald, son of Sir Gerald Croft, and Arthur believes that his own name will appear in the next honours list. They are having dinner to celebrate.
Into this scene of domestic complacency comes Inspector Goole, who wishes to question the family about the suicide of a local working-class girl, Eva Smith. At first, they all deny knowledge of her, but it gradually emerges that each one has, in some way, had an impact on her life and has contributed to her exclusion from society, her despair and, ultimately, her death.
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