Living with lies and surviving

In an interview with Deutsche Welle’s, Germany’s public international broadcaster, reporter Zhanna Nemtsova asked Boris Johnson, “Mr Johnson, you argue that the source of this nerve agent, Novichok, is Russia. How did you manage to find it out so quickly? Does Britain possess samples of this?” Johnson, after some preamble, replied, “When I look at […]

The poor, the people the Tories love to hate because they deserve it

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,102 Sunday 31 May 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, A fellow blogger wrote in 2014, “It’s truly remarkable that whenever we have a Conservative government, we suddenly witness media coverage of an unprecedented rise in the numbers of poor people who suddenly seem to develop a considerable range […]

“Everyone but an idiot knows that the lower classes must be kept poor” – Arthur Young 1771

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,097 Tuesday 26 May 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, In 2012 David Freud said, “people who are poorer should be prepared to take the biggest risks” as they have “the least to lose”: only their attachment to welfare holds them back.” At the Conservative party conference in 2012 […]

Tory reward, a knife in the back

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,052 Wednesday 08 April 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, Betrayal is a terrible thing. The central issue of all these letters has been the betrayal of a nation for an ideology that rewards the rich whilst punishing and penalising the poor. Britain is reported to be the only […]