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 […]

This Tory dystopia must end

Behind Theresa May on the stage in Manchester was a sign which read, ‘Building a country that works for everyone’. I am not sure where this mythical country might be, because we’ve already got one and once upon a time, before Thatcher, it did work better for everyone. Though poverty and hardship had not been […]

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 […]

A better Britain is possible, it’s been done before

Whilst the right wing media still has daily fits over the rise of Labour and Jeremy Corbyn, the Conservatives fall ever further into the abyss where they rightly belong. At 66 years of age I remember the post war era, of moving from an ageing prefab to a brand new 3 bedroom house with a […]

The day I met Jeremy Corbyn

Have you noticed how alike Jeremy Corbyn and Ken Loach are? Both are somewhat reticent, unassuming people, plain speaking, with no airs and graces and utterly lacking in pomposity. That said, it would be a grave mistake to think of either man as weak, they are both robust in their views and deeply experienced in […]

A cabinet of millionaires to lead the working class. Yai!

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,494 Friday 15 July 2016. Dear Mrs May, Your cabinet… It’s almost too unbearably funny in a totally mad way. A line up of millionaires all for little ol’ working class us. How sweet. Cuddly Mr Hammond, dappy Lizzie for justice, Amber the banker vulture capitalist, nuke […]

The only good that can happen for Britain is – get the Tories out!

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,471 Wednesday 22 June 2016. Dear Mr Cameron, The one thing I can say about the EU referendum and the Tory campaign is that it has been run by the fantastically corrupt for the fantastically corrupt. I have never witnessed a more brutally corrupt campaign which has […]

The war of the privileged few against the many

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,443 Tuesday 24 May 2016. Dear Mr Cameron, Throughout the history of the world it has never been the many against the few, it has always been the few against the many and so far they have been astonishingly successful. They, that elusive ‘powers that be’, control […]

There’s nothing lower than a Tory

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,267 Thursday 26 November 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, I grew up in the Hippie era. Despite what some may think hippies were not just a bunch of loose moraled, loose brained, hedonists, although hedonism was very much a necessary and vital part it, but it was also […]

Dear Jeremy,

Jeremy Corbyn 10 Melton St London NW1 2EJ 17 September 2015 Dear Jeremy, I hope you will forgive the familiarity, but as it’s something you’ve created, I’ll let you off. You’ve done something that is only rivalled by the founding of the NHS and the Welfare State which demanded so much courage and strength from […]