Rediscovering anger and violence

As a hippy, back in the sixties, I had my awakening to the awareness of war, nuclear weapons and mutually assured destruction (MAD), the horrors of the Vietnam war, and I became a self declared (ignorant) pacifist – a peacenik. I faced a, then, common question to pacifists, “What would you do if someone was […]

Standing against the tide of government oppression

There is nothing new in the right wing establishments treatment of the Windrush generation of people who were invited and transported to Britain in our hour of need after WWII. A Conservative campaign poster of 1964 read, “Face the facts. If you desire a coloured for your neighbour, vote Labour. If you are already burdoned […]

391 people in Britain died of malnutrition last year

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,521 Saturday 13 August 2016. Dear Mrs May, Figures from the Office of National Statistics reveal that there were 746 hospital admissions and 391 deaths from malnutrition in 2015, a rise of 27% from 9 years ago. The response from the Department for Work and Pensions? “We […]

Tories, the party of hate, prejudice and fear

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,422 Wednesday 04 May 2016. Dear Mr Cameron, Congratulations on being the party of hate, prejudice and fear, one of the most loathsome, putrid, stains on Britain in our long divisive history. From the Irish potato famine genocide, to the massacre of 379 unarmed and peaceful demonstrators […]