Cry freedom!

It is a very strange thing, the slave trade was abolished with the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act by the British Parliament in 1807, however it took until the 1833 Slavery Abolition Act to end slavery itself. [1]. This was achieved by giving slave owners £20 million compensation (about £16 billion today) for the […]

Jeremy Hunt is putting lives at risk for profit

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,509 Monday 01 August 2016. Dear Mrs May, It took about 200,000 years from the birth of humanity to make the NHS and a mere 68 years to dismantle it. It was Britain’s finest achievement yet Jeremy Hunt is close to finishing it off for good and […]

Ah the sweet, cloying, stink of corruption

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,432 Friday 13 May 2016. Dear Mr Cameron, Ah corruption. It’s a funny old thing, even the police couldn’t believe that the UK government could act against the best interests of the people. In one of my attempts to report the DWP for human rights abuses I […]