The Tories must go!

In the Tory mindset, the lives of ordinary people have no intrinsic value. Our value is measured only in terms of our utility in creating wealth, all other aspects of our humanity are treated as useless and a drain on the ‘free’ markets, including thought, child birth and rearing and our most basic human rights […]

Money should be a tool, not a weapon

The pound, like all money, has no fixed value, it is changing all the time, predominantly downwards. Due to creeping inflation it is a shadow of its former self. An item costing £1 in 1973 would cost around £10.55 in today’s money. Odd, then, that pay has been ever decreasing for the last 50 years […]

The great government debt scam

Originally posted on Kay Green:
I’m delighted to have a guest-post here from Keith Lindsay-Cameron, the man who’s famous around social media for writing a letter a day to number 10. It is a fantastic addition to our information for campaigners and activists collection – KG.For seven years we have been browbeaten into thinking we…

If you take a walk, I’ll tax your feet. Taxman! Beatles 1966

In striving to understand how the economy really works as against the ridiculous fairy stories we are told to dutifully swallow, I have had to give up some cherished sacred cows which are tied in with my outrage against a government which is causing so many people hideous pain and suffering and driving many to […]

The state is our enemy

The system is broken, and by that I do not mean accidentally, oops how careless of me, broken, I mean wilfully and deliberately broken. I have lived my life with mental ill health and what I described as ‘social phobia’ years before any such description existed. Doctors told me I was agoraphobic, which then and […]

Party politics

Originally posted on Fierce Writing:
Let’s have a revolution for fun New Statesman & Society 29th July 1994 Photographs by Dave Hendley Awake. awake O sleeper of the land of shadows, wake!  expand! I am in you, and you in me, mutual in love divine: Fibres of love from man to man thro’ Albion’s pleasant…

Child abuse and state rape

A child bodily molested and/or fucked by an adult is later emotionally and mentally fucked by the state. How is that supposed to feel? If that seems to be using somewhat intemperate language, I would like to remind people that actions speak louder than any words I can use here. I was told as a […]

It is the privilege of the privileged to dispose of the poor

Philip Hammond recently said to Andrew Marr, “Public sector pay raced ahead of private sector pay after the crash in 2008/9 and taking public sector pay, before pension contributions, that gap is now closed, public and private sector pay on average are round about the same.” This statement by Philip Hammond is a golden nugget, […]

Email from America

My grateful thanks to my friend Eileen for cutting through the crap and for her kind permission to use the following. I’ve never heard of Aberfan. The photographer at Aberfan that day, David Hurn said, “In this case it’s pretty obvious what had happened was obscene; you wanted to show that this is exactly what […]

200,000 years of evolution, the Tories, really?

We are living in an unprecedented time in history, which is even bigger than both world wars because the level of potential harm is global and irreversible. Many people will be familiar with the saying that has its origins in the First Nations of what is now called America, “When the last tree is cut […]