Designers have a saying, ‘form follows function’, it means understanding what something is for, what its use is, before they start messing with it’s structural form. A chair has a very specific function, supporting someone who desires to sit. It can support other functions, as a platform to stand on, a low step ladder, and […]
Month: September 2017
In a world gone mad
For time out of mind and in the words of the old song: ‘It’s the same the whole world over It’s the poor wot gets the blame It’s the rich wot gets the pleasure Ain’t it all a bleedin’ shame.’ Were Robert Tressell, who wrote ‘The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists’, alive today, despite all the technological advances […]
On this road lies danger
I find myself in an extraordinary situation. The Personal Independence Payment (PIP) forms have arrived and my head is full of the silent sound of synaptic klaxon’s going off, screaming, ‘Danger, danger!’ To achieve this monumental task requires throwing any semblance of independence out of the window and to be compliant to a system that […]
PIP in the age of stupid
I want to unravel the whole PIP thing a bit, along with some other stuff that I think needs saying and expressing. Let me start with a question. Why is the whole PIP thing so fucking stressful? The reason is that it falls to us to make it happen. Forget the ‘decision makers’ and the, […]
Jacob Rees-Mogg, the past is present
Within Britain’s historic class system the idea of an upper class person getting a job was unthinkable, that’s what common people did. Today, within the Rees-Mogg household, the idea of Sixtus Dominic Boniface Christopher Rees-Mogg growing up and wanting a job would be a cause for outrage. It’s not the done thing, and ‘the done […]
Fear and Loathing in Great Britain 