We have three choices…

Iain Duncan Smith is not happy with Ken Loach’s film ‘I, Daniel Blake’, he says it focused only on, “the very worst of anything that can ever happen to anybody.” Dr Simon Duffy on behalf of the Campaign for a Fair Society, published by The Centre for Welfare Reform, found that due to cuts in […]

Hostages to wealth and the growing resistance

We are the prisoners of finance, of wealth and, more truthfully, those who revere wealth above all else, who seek ever greater wealth no matter the cost to individual lives, communities, nations and the world. There is nothing reasonable about what is going on, this global asset stripping has all the hallmarks of a religious […]

The boy in the bubble…

I am Daniel Blake. I haven’t even seen Ken Loach’s film yet but its impact on my life is already enormous, not least because of the man, Ken Loach. Loach is the father I never had, the one who wraps you in his love and creates a protective bubble around a fragile life. He looks […]