GORDON Brown rightly raised escalating child poverty at the Edinburgh Book Festival. and to be fair he made efforts when he was Chancellor, even if he failed to address growing inequality in so many other ways. But it’s worse than ever now and only one manifestation of the growing divide between rich and poor. . http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/16443468.kenny-macaskill-for-the-sake-of-society-the-wealthy-must-be-made-to-pay-their-way/