Baying for blood, the media

In any, great or small, news event there is an untold story which is blandly accepted as the norm but which is long overdue for change as no longer socially or morally acceptable. The snarling hoards of the corporate and freelance media fall like jackals on anything that smells like a ‘good’ story no matter […]

Surviving neoliberal cultural warfare

I’ve just come across an AlterNet article entitled ‘5 Ways Trump Is Mentally Torturing Us Now’. UK readers might struggle a bit with this as this is America wearing its heart on its sleeve, something which in Britain is culturally alien to us. But before dismissing this with any of the usual cynical, and frankly […]

Britain is suffocating under the weight of corporate greed

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,512 Thursday 04 August 2016. Dear Mrs May, The Telegraph reports that there has been a rise in payments for NHS trust interim managers being paid “off payroll” from 961 in 2013/14 to 1,193 in 2014/15. Given that the NHS is in crisis thanks to the actions […]

Living modest lives is the only sustainable future, so why attack them?

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,507 Saturday 30 July 2016. Dear Mrs May, In the relentless campaign against the lives of ordinary people, welfare reforms, loss of legal aid, punitive benefit sanctions and cuts, loss of employment rights, the privatisation of our NHS, housing insecurity/no more lifelong tenancies, and so on, people […]

This sick robbery must end

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,348 Saturday 20 February 2016. Dear Mr Cameron, It’s strange, a few weeks ago I retired, it was a good feeling for a few days until I realised that nothing had changed, everyone still wants their pound of flesh. Two months before retirement I was called in […]