Britain – a nation of the dispossessed #FundOurNHS

Capitalism is an economic system based upon private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit. Privatising our NHS and all our other once public services is not capitalism, it’s colonialism in disguise, the theft of something we have already built, paid for and run for 70 years, and renting it back […]

So long tax payers and thanks for all your cash

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,502 Monday 25 July 2016. Dear Mrs May, The privatisation of, er, well, everything, reminds me of Douglas Adams’ title of the fourth book in his ‘Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’ trilogy, ‘So long and thanks for all the fish’… So long tax payers and thanks for […]

‘Gideon’s Heist’ stealing from the poor to give to the rich

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,107 Friday 05 June 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, The Mirror reports that some creative rascal, using what may have been a government computer, amended the Wikipedia entry on right-wing dictatorships to include – United Kingdom, Conservatives, 2015-, David Cameron. I’m not sure where the tipping point is […]