Freedom

I do not know what freedom means. I know I have never experienced it and yet I have an idea what I would want it to mean as a lived experience. I cannot think of anything that could or would impact me more than having a quiet mind. That is what I can imagine freedom […]

AI is taking over, is there life after work?

With the increasing growth and exploitation of Artificial Intelligence, which is taking over from human labour in the workplace, the underlying assumption is that without work, humans are obsolete. The problem here is a ridiculous binary argument, that the only way humans can survive is through work in the modern post industrial world. The question […]

The Light

When I was at school I was often reprimanded for being a dreamer. I am very pleased to announce that it is a failing that has, above all others, lasted to this day. But what does it mean to be a dreamer? It is used as a pejorative term but which, if it makes you […]

A nation driven into slavery, the Tories must go

The world is being driven off a cliff, politically and economically, it is astonishing and bewildering how far off the beaten track of common sense and reason we are being driven by people without a shred of humanity and who are corrupt to the bone. But what is also astonishing, but in no way bewildering, […]

Jacob Rees-Mogg, the past is present

Within Britain’s historic class system the idea of an upper class person getting a job was unthinkable, that’s what common people did. Today, within the Rees-Mogg household, the idea of Sixtus Dominic Boniface Christopher Rees-Mogg growing up and wanting a job would be a cause for outrage. It’s not the done thing, and ‘the done […]

It is the privilege of the privileged to dispose of the poor

Philip Hammond recently said to Andrew Marr, “Public sector pay raced ahead of private sector pay after the crash in 2008/9 and taking public sector pay, before pension contributions, that gap is now closed, public and private sector pay on average are round about the same.” This statement by Philip Hammond is a golden nugget, […]

The fight of and for our lives

Readers might be somewhat put off by a silly, perhaps frivolous, attempt to portray the Labour and Tory leaders as characters from a movie, but the truth is that we’ve gone a very long way beyond that, so please bear with me. For over a week now I have had a growing ache in my […]

Terrorism UK

This is a difficult one, what I am about to do is like going on stage and having a shit. As a writer, that’s not something you ever want to do and then something happens and you have to write something because if you don’t it’s just going to be in there tearing your head […]

For want of kindness

I missed a doctors appointment this week, it was entirely down to an oversight on my part for reasons that don’t matter. The next day I visited the health centre to apologise and to make another appointment. The receptionist was very gracious, not a trace of impatience or frustration that my oversight had put unnecessary […]

The poor cannot afford those who get rich on their backs

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,513 Friday 05 August 2016. Dear Mrs May, It is expensive being poor. Being poor comes at a premium cost, whether it is food, health, essential services, transport, life expectancy, being exploited as cheap labour, lack of choice, mental health and quality of life, the poor pay […]