Lack of empathy for poor people continues | Letters

There is a painting by Thomas Cantrell Dugdale in the Geffrye Museum in Hackney: The Arrival of the Jarrow Marchers in London, Viewed From an Interior (1930s show economic disaster needs a radical response, 23 October).Alan Price’s stirring Jarrow Song was written in 1974.Larry Elliott says the Great Depression led to a radical rethink.