Cry freedom!

It is a very strange thing, the slave trade was abolished with the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act by the British Parliament in 1807, however it took until the 1833 Slavery Abolition Act to end slavery itself. [1]. This was achieved by giving slave owners £20 million compensation (about £16 billion today) for the […]

Beyond the age of reason

We are not rational creatures, as a descriptor of humanity, we have the potential to be rational, but even attempting to be rational has subjective bias for all sorts of reasons including regional and cultural bias. We also use reason and logic selectively, prejudice is very real, but also irrational. We make no conscious choice […]

Slave nation

Workfare Sanctions Jobcentres – Britain’s secret penal system Zero hours contracts Cuts to workplace protections Cuts to legal aid Gig economy Getting rid of safety ‘red tape’ Scrapping social housing Scrapping housing benefit for young people Food banks Child poverty Extreme inequality The ‘free’ market economy Government attacks on disabled people The intention to scrap […]

The system’s rigged, we are not all in this together

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,399 Monday 11 April 2016. Dear Mr Cameron, No word of your resignation yet, I notice. But then it is Sunday as I write, the day when ordinary people work, like junior doctors, nurses and all those who make our 24 hour NHS possible, supermarket staff and […]

Modern day slavery is alive and well in the UK

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,249 Wednesday 04 November 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, The abolition of slavery is considered to be one of the mile stones in human progress yet, just like the founding of our welfare state and NHS, it was fiercely opposed by those who benefited and profited from it. […]