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The Democratic campaign's focus on the jobless and poor came a day after Mr. Kerry won new victories in the Utah, Idaho and Hawaii primaries.

But rich and poor came together yesterday for a party in the park as the birthplace of the Beatles again took centre stage for the first Liverpool International Music Festival.

Wooed by populist programs like low-cost health care and cheap loans, the rural poor came together in support of Thaksin Shinawatra, who transformed Thai politics during six years as prime minister.

Mainstream accounts of poverty deliberately avoid a historical understanding of how the poor came to be poor, and structural analysis of the clear relationship between the concentration of wealth and the diffusion of deprivation.

When the poor came to his "mobile science" vans, bringing their stories of terrifying horoscopes, Dr Dabholkar would hand them a telescope and patiently explain the profound indifference of the stars.The only inexplicable thing, he would say (all other "inexplicable" things being rationally explained by natural laws) was that India in the 21st century was still so full of superstition.

But both the rich and the poor came through with roughly the same level of assets that they had before the crisis (see chart).The poor had little wealth to start with, of course, and it was mostly in possessions such as cars and sofas, which are hardly susceptible to financial chaos.

No, we can't rerun the old canard that Isis are the poor coming to avenge themselves on us.

Such compassionless conservatism (slashing taxes for the rich and expenditure on the poor) comes with little thought as to which bits of government spending are useful.

He has toned down his campaign slogan, from "For the good of everyone, the poor come first," to the less confrontational "Real change is in your hands".

And let's not forget that this autumn's hit to the working poor comes on top of last year's decision to uprate tax credits by only 1%.

Sugar water was when we was poor, coming up.