The Tories, not a shred of common human decency

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,157 Friday 24 July 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, Authoritarian Conservatism is a combination of emotionally (anally) retentive Victorian paternalism with the colonial mindset of conquest and ownership. It is socially corrosive and divisive and fundamentally dishonest in its self righteous attitude of ‘don’t do as I do, […]

Britain is not a Tory feudal fiefdom and we are not their vassals

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,130 Saturday 27 June 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, Britain has a profound and distressing problem. The problem is your government and can be put very simply, Britain is not your feudal fiefdom and we are not your vassals. I have, in a long and chequered life, had […]

The DWP will starve you to death for trying to pay for your own funeral

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,042 Sunday 29 March 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, The Disability News Service (DNS) yesterday reported that a terminally ill woman “risked being charged with an ‘offence’ and would lose part of her benefits if she used an insurance policy windfall to pay for her own funeral”. What […]