Universal Credit debit

I have received my PIP decision which is to pay me £214.65 every four weeks, that’s a loss of £95.95 from DLA which was £310.60. All else being equal, and it isn’t, I can take the hit, it’s manageable. My first payment is due on 6 February which means neither DLA nor PIP this month, […]

Happy pro-active new year – the Tories must go

In 1921, C P Scott, editor of the Manchester Guardian for nearly 50 years, wrote an essay to mark the papers centenary in which he wrote that the “primary office” of a newspaper is accurate news reporting, saying “comment is free, but facts are sacred”. He would likely have abhorred the present time where news […]

Money is a violent ideological weapon

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,055 Saturday 11 April 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, There is no freedom without economic freedom. Money is presented like a force majeure (a force beyond human control) by those in power, propagandised as an irresistible force like nature (keep the financial markets ‘free’ or something awful will […]