Living modest lives is the only sustainable future, so why attack them?

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,507 Saturday 30 July 2016. Dear Mrs May, In the relentless campaign against the lives of ordinary people, welfare reforms, loss of legal aid, punitive benefit sanctions and cuts, loss of employment rights, the privatisation of our NHS, housing insecurity/no more lifelong tenancies, and so on, people […]

The grey workforce of betrayed and brutalised young people

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,183 Wednesday 19 August 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, Ralph McTell wrote a song, released in 1983, that was inspired from a conversation with Billy Connolly who had watched an Indian Trade Union man address a party political conference with the opening line, ‘A man without a job […]

Britain doesn’t need another Tory party, one is too much

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,101 Saturday 30 May 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, I see that Andy Burnham is trying to out right wing you Tories. You must be delighted, the end of the Labour party is nigh. Order another case of Bollinger because let’s face it they’ll never out-Tory you Tories, […]