“Social mobility has always been a slippery term, with nebulous markers of success: how many state school children have to achieve postgraduate degrees, or fill higher professional jobs, before society is deemed to have achieved the requisite degree of mobility to consider prejudice or injustice a thing of the past?”

Irish-British journalist, broadcaster, and author

Dawn Hayley Foster was an Irish-British journalist, broadcaster, and author. She wrote mainly about social affairs, politics, economics, and women’s rights, and became known for her reporting and commentary on public life. Foster worked as a staff writer for Inside Housing, The Guardian, and Jacobin magazine. She also contributed to The Independent, The New York Times, Tribune, and Dissent, and appeared regularly on television as a political commentator. She was especially known for her coverage of the Grenfell Tower fire.