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The Social Metrics Commission says new poverty measures need to take account of all available assets, such as savings, instead of just a family’s income

Words can change the world, or provide an ever-echoing record of a world changed. Master of letters and speech compiler Shaun Usher offers a glimpse of the monumental moments that never were