What is government for?

Government should be there to manage things for the common good of the people, be it law, infrastructure and public provision or the economic well being of the nation as a whole. Government, in essence, is about managing the collective needs of society as a whole, so that we are spared a chaotic piecemeal approach […]

Referendum Britain, dingbat crazy

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,460 Friday 10 June 2016. Dear Mr Cameron, I am amazed at all the sound and fury that’s kicked off over the EU referendum, admittedly a lot of it is piss and wind, but regardless of that, where’s it all been hiding in six long tooth grinding […]

Austerity and the deliberate sacrifice of lives

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,418 Saturday 30 April 2016. Dear Mr Cameron, Just in case you were wondering, junior doctors have not gone away, Jeremy Hunt is not off the hook and the support for junior doctors will continue. The contract that Hunt wants to impose on them is not safe […]

Isn’t it time we had a bit of democracy in parliament?

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,406 Monday 18 April 2016. Dear Mr Cameron, For all George Osborne’s talk about tax evasion, money laundering and corruption – “Strong words of condemnation are not enough, populist outrage doesn’t by itself collect a single extra pound or dollar in tax or put a single criminal […]

We don’t need no wealthy takers, we don’t need no forced control

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,152 Sunday 19 July 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, In time honoured tradition millions of workers will today have gone to work in order to ‘make a living’. Of course, if they are on minimum wage, a living is the very thing they will not make. However, what […]

The personal is political, especially for the hounded poor

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,050 Monday 06 April 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, One of the more important expressions that came out of the 60’s feminist and student movements is ‘the personal is political’. It’s an expression that, still, today is not widely accepted or understood, which is unfortunate because it has […]

Applause in Edinburgh as Cameron slanders the poor

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,022 Sunday 08 March 2015. Dear Mr cluck cluck, meaningless sound-bite, Cameron, I couldn’t help but notice at your little soirée with the party air heads in Edinburgh that one of your main election planks will be your baseless, fact free, sound bite, slandering of the poor. […]