The craven cowardice and shameless shamefulness of Iain Duncan Smith

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,330 Friday 29 January 2016. Dear Mr Cameron, In all my 65 years I have never witnessed such craven cowardice as displayed by Iain Duncan Smith (IDS) yesterday in the House of Commons. Asked to respond to questions put directly to him by Owen Smith, Labour’s Shadow […]

Treating poor people like scum and robbing them of any meaningful existence

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,188 Monday 24 August 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, In your one dimensional world in which you know the price of everything but the value of nothing, ordinary people are being driven into a twilight world deprived of all value, meaning and self worth. Whatever spurious reasons you […]

What kind of pigs breakfast can we expect from Gove as justice secretary?

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,082 Monday 11 May 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, The physicist Richard Feynman said, “I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it is much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that might be wrong. If we will only allow […]

Armed forces should be exempt from the constraints of the ECHR, ‘rip it up’ says Grayling

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,047 Friday 03 April 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, In a report by the right-wing think tank Policy Exchange called “Clearing the Fog of Law” the authors state the following: “The British armed forces should not be above the law. But which law? The ever-expanding reach of the […]

Jobcentre mental health care, useless ministers and doughnuts

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,035 Saturday 21 March 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, The BBC reported today that Mental health trusts in England have seen their budgets fall by more than 8% in real terms under your government. Research by BBC News and the online journal Community Care reveals that the cuts […]

Another tory government; less appealing than being attacked by a rabid dog

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,033 Thursday 19 March 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, A benefits system that is predicated on inflicting suffering is an abomination, but it cuts far deeper than something that is abominable or morally repugnant. Over recent days it has emerged that terminally ill people who have more than […]