Talking ’bout my generation

I reckon I was born into what may have been the most blessed (fortunate) generation in the history of Britain. I am not saying it was easy, we were dirt poor and I spent more time with cardboard in my shoes than soles and we had marrow bone soup every Tuesday, the butcher saving my […]

Urban trauma, homelessness and economic warfare

We have a problem and it’s one we need to fix urgently. Housing… to briefly put aside all the other myriad disastrous problems which lie securely at the door of the Tories and the neoliberal consensus. I’ll begin with a proposition – no one should be evicted from their home for financial reasons, as a […]

I will not go quietly

As a 66 year old bloke, a post war baby boomer, it is incredible to witness that the NHS and the welfare state aren’t even going to make it through the life cycle of one whole generation. Out of the debt and destruction of war came the greatest revolution in social care that this country […]