The wilful destruction of the poor

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,073 Wednesday 29 April 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, In December last year you said your policies were ‘lifting people into work and out of poverty’. Let’s just have ourselves an election special review of Tory policies and action on poverty. The broad strokes are that the poor […]

Victorians long past their natural extinction date

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,025 Wednesday 11 March 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, I’ve been checking out life expectancies in the UK. Life expectancy at the year of my birth (1951) was 66 years for men and 71 years for women. Life expectancy at birth in 2011 was 79 years for men […]